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If you are a high school or community
college administrator or ICT teacher, please join us Friday,
May 6th, 2011, from 9am to 2pm, in the Ohlone College
Boardroom for a symposium on “Building ICT Pathways from
K-12 to College.” This event is being co-hosted by MPICT,
Ohlone College, Cisco Systems, the California Department of
Education and WhyITNow/WhyCTENow.
We need a skilled ICT workforce to realize the benefits of
ICT in our workplaces, economies and communities. To get
one, we need not only to do a good job educating students in
community college ICT programs, we also need to collaborate
to attract and serve K-12 system students with interests in
ICT, so they have exposure to ICT and its many educational
and career opportunities, and so they have opportunities to
learn ICT and prepare themselves for those pathways.
Over 10 years, Ohlone College has built an exceptional IT
pathway from K-12 to college in its region. Among many
successful pathways elements, Ohone has developed middle
school summer camps, a 9th grade introductory course, high
school CTE courses, summer boot camps, a computer recycling
program, field trips in Silicon Valley and opportunities for
high school students to take community college classes.
This symposium will present successful pathway building
experiences, from both college and K-12 perspectives, and it
will explore a variety of workshop topics, like:
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Building Middle School ICT Summer
Camps
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Developing High School Introductory
ICT Courses
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Digital Literacy
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Creating High School ICT Boot Camps
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Building Pathways with Cisco
Networking Academies
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Building Dual/Concurrent Enrollment
Relationships
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Meeting High School A-G Requirements
with ICT
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Distance Learning Between High School
and College
We would really encourage
representatives of community colleges and neighboring high
schools to come to this event together. We will help you
understand options for building pathways between your
programs and for getting support in those efforts.
To learn more, please contact Chris Wu at
cwu@mpict.org.
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