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1 week to complete
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Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

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This course is part of the Teaching Impacts of Technology in K-12 Education Specialization
When you enroll in this course, you'll also be enrolled in this Specialization.
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  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
  • Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 5 modules in this course

In this course you’ll focus on how the Internet has enabled new careers and changed expectations in traditional work settings, creating a new vision for the workplace of the future. This will be done through a series of paired teaching sections, exploring a specific “Impact of Computing” in your typical day and the “Technologies and Computing Concepts” that enable that impact, all at a K12-appropriate level.

This course is part of a larger Specialization through which you’ll learn impacts of computing concepts you need to know, organized into 5 distinct digital “worlds”, as well as learn pedagogical techniques and evaluate lesson plans and resources to utilize in your classroom. By the end, you’ll be prepared to teach pre-college learners to be both savvy and effective participants in their digital world. In this particular digital world (careers and work), you’ll explore the following Impacts & Technology pairs -- Impacts (Getting jobs in new ways): technology based freelancing, Linkedin and how it changed the way we work Technology and Computing Concepts: Data retrieval, data vs metadata, SQL, Boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT) Impacts (Physical ties to work restricts people and businesses): work communication, the cloud, cloud computing, companies affected by ransomware attacks Technology and Computing Concepts: how the cloud works, FTP, cloud storage, clients and servers, scalability basics, fault tolerance, AWS, devops Impacts (Advancing your career in the fast moving technical world): digital technology changing jobs, online classes, machines replacing jobs, data science and artificial intelligence In the pedagogy section for this course, in which best practices for teaching computing concepts are explored, you’ll learn how to effectively explore and critique curricular material you find and practice reviewing lesson plans, with a focus on material aimed at learning HTML. In terms of CSTA K-12 computer science standards, we’ll primarily cover learning objectives within the “impacts of computing” concept, while also including some within the “networks and the Internet” concepts and the “data and analysis” concept. Practices we cover include “fostering and inclusive computing culture”, “recognizing and defining computational problems”, and “communicating about computing”.

Welcome! Are you ready to explore the impacts of the technology on the workplace and new types careers available to us? To learn more about the computation and computing concepts that underlie those technologies? We'll be using a problem-based approach to explore interesting ways to teach concepts of networks and the internet, data and analysis, and even algorithms and data representation. Additionally, this course features a series called "Career Explorations" -- resources you can use to help students broaden their ideas of future career opportunities. Finally, we'll explore several lesson plans supporting online learning resources around data science and html programming (don't worry -- not prior programming experience is required!).

What's included

2 videos3 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

2 videos•Total 18 minutes
  • Welcome!•12 minutes
  • This is part of a specialization•6 minutes
3 readings•Total 15 minutes
  • Are You Wanting UC, San Diego credit?•5 minutes
  • Engagement and Assessment Goals•5 minutes
  • Using Googledoc Templates in this Class•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 7 minutes
  • Orientation Quiz - Make Sure you Know the Score•7 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • Who are you and What are you looking for?•10 minutes

How has getting a job changed due to the Internet and ever growing amounts of information we choose to make available online? What new opportunities or flexibility are available because of the digital nature of much of our work? We'll explore this and some of fundamentals behind database storage and access that helps match us to possible jobs!

What's included

7 videos8 readings2 assignments3 app items2 discussion prompts

7 videos•Total 18 minutes
  • Getting a Job in New Ways•4 minutes
  • Your First Interactive Reading•12 minutes
  • Check Your Knowledge•0 minutes
  • Check Your Knowledge•0 minutes
  • Check Your Knowledge•0 minutes
  • What is Teacher Powerup?•2 minutes
  • Check Your Knowledge•0 minutes
8 readings•Total 73 minutes
  • Where's my interactive reading grade?•3 minutes
  • Explore a Freelance Platform!•10 minutes
  • How do job sites store (and retrieve) matches?•8 minutes
  • Data vs Metadata!•16 minutes
  • How to "speak" database: SQL•4 minutes
  • Leveraging Prior Knowledge: AND, OR, NOT•6 minutes
  • Boolean Logic in Computing•16 minutes
  • Hacking websites with SQL•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
  • Mastery Quiz Part 1•30 minutes
  • Mastery Quiz Part 2•30 minutes
3 app items•Total 45 minutes
  • Technology opens the world of freelancing•10 minutes
  • How LinkedIn Changed the Way We Work•25 minutes
  • Crowdsourced Vocabulary: Databases•10 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 25 minutes
  • Thinking about technology-enabled freelancing•10 minutes
  • Boolean Logic Resources -- for Your Students!•15 minutes

How have cheap computers and "always available" Internet connectivity changed how and when we can work? What about the cloud -- is it just for storage? Finally, we'll look at two impacts on careers -- working in a truly "global" company and managing the updates of software that we seem to get all the time!

What's included

6 videos11 readings2 assignments3 app items1 discussion prompt

6 videos•Total 4 minutes
  • Physical Ties to Work•4 minutes
  • Check Your Knowledge•0 minutes
  • In Your Experience•0 minutes
  • In Your Experience...•0 minutes
  • Check Your Knowledge•0 minutes
  • Check Your Knowledge•0 minutes
11 readings•Total 72 minutes
  • What is the Cloud?•5 minutes
  • More about the cloud•7 minutes
  • In a word: client? app? server? application?•10 minutes
  • Cloud Storage•9 minutes
  • Optional: Chromebooks vs Laptops: Use in schools?•0 minutes
  • Scalability Basics•5 minutes
  • Career Exploration: working at Amazon Web Services•4 minutes
  • Optional: Extra Teacher Resources•0 minutes
  • AWS Overview•12 minutes
  • Career Exploration: What is Devops?•10 minutes
  • Optional: Extra Teacher Resources•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
  • Mastery Quiz Part 1•30 minutes
  • Mastery Quiz Part 2•30 minutes
3 app items•Total 38 minutes
  • Communication... it's all in the cloud!•15 minutes
  • How Cloud Enables New Businesses•8 minutes
  • Fault Tolerance and Cloud Computing•15 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • Phone a Friend: Cloud in the Workplace•10 minutes

How will the workplace of the future be different? Will workers be expected to constantly learn new things just to stay employable? How might that happen? Will machines be taking over our jobs? This is currently the subject of a LOT of discussion. Although exploring the technology behind machine learning and artificial intelligence is appropriate, we have already covered that in another course (Course 2 - Data). Instead here we'll look at the new "career" of data science and explore a tool you can use with students to give them a first introduction -- no programming needed!

What's included

4 videos3 readings2 assignments3 app items1 discussion prompt

4 videos•Total 3 minutes
  • Advancing your Career in the Fast Moving Technical World•3 minutes
  • In Your Experience•0 minutes
  • Check Your Knowledge•0 minutes
  • Check Your Knowledge•0 minutes
3 readings•Total 20 minutes
  • Career Exploration: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence•7 minutes
  • Career Exploration: Artificial Intelligence Job Titles•8 minutes
  • The Data Science Process•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
  • Mastery Quiz Part 1•30 minutes
  • Mastery Quiz: Part 2•30 minutes
3 app items•Total 50 minutes
  • Five ways digital technology is changing your job•5 minutes
  • 8 Things You Should Know About Online Classes to Advance Your Career•15 minutes
  • Where machines could replace humans—and where they can’t (yet)•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • Cool data sets for kids...•10 minutes

Technology and the Internet is changing not only what kinds of jobs we can get, but how we can stay trained and train for new jobs our entire life. This week you will find a resource for exploring the impacts of computing on career or work -- that you think would be useful with YOUR students. Additionally we'll reflect on how cognitive load can cause challenges when teaching computing and explore and critique a code.org lesson on learning HTML.

What's included

4 videos6 readings2 assignments1 app item1 discussion prompt

4 videos•Total 12 minutes
  • Why Study: Impacts and Next Steps•4 minutes
  • In Your Experience•0 minutes
  • Cognitive Load in Learning about Computing•8 minutes
  • In Your Experience: Cognitive Load•0 minutes
6 readings•Total 52 minutes
  • Do This Now... Request a teacher account•4 minutes
  • Can the Internet help teach the world?•7 minutes
  • Optional: Extra Teacher Resources•1 minute
  • What's Up Next•15 minutes
  • Learn HTML through a code.org lesson•20 minutes
  • Comment on and ask questions about the full lesson plan•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 35 minutes
  • Check Your Knowledge (Ped-CogLoad)•5 minutes
  • Mastery Quiz•30 minutes
1 app item•Total 45 minutes
  • Code.org Unit 2 Lesson 3: Intro to HTML Lesson Plan•45 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
  • What did you enjoy, learn from, need improved•10 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

Yes! This course is designed as component of a Specialization that is 1 of a set of 4 Specializations (all will be offered on Coursera) that will support the requirements of the California Supplementary Authorization. Additionally, the Specialization may support credentialing or authorization in other states. However, most states require a transcript from an accredited institution of higher education. See the FAQ question on “Will I earn university credit” to find out how to get such a transcript.

Yes, you can earn UCSD credit for completing this course, but only by completing the full Teaching Impacts of Technology in K-12 Education Specialization. In addition, you will need to (1) Enroll in an additional UCSD Extension course before completing the capstone ($500) and (2) complete part of the capstone project via an online proctoring service. After this is done, your Specialization course grades will be accumulated and a transcript with your final grade (both letter grade or pass-only supported) will be issued from UCSD with 4 graduate-level units. These are eligible to count towards the California Supplementary Authorization.

There is no background knowledge, neither in education nor in Computer Science, required to take this course - just an interest in learning computational concepts about the technology that surrounds us and how to best teach those concepts to others.

Basic proficiency in the use of Googledocs will be needed to complete assignments within the course. Google help documentation will be provided, and with some extra attention, first time use of Googledocs should not be a barrier to successful completion of the course.

By providing this course online, our goal is to enable you to master all the material in the course at a pace that is appropriate for you, rather than the typical processes of picking a specific date and measuring how much you can learn by that date of in-person courses. Instead of the relatively bigger chunks of learning work found in traditional courses (e.g. go to class, read the book, do homework, study for the test) this course has a lot of smaller and more diverse activities that guide your learning experience. We use a lot of online features to

Break learning into smaller chunks

Engage you more in thinking and discussing content with others

Better integrate and more frequently test your knowledge (with a focus on mastery, allowing you to go back and learn what you missed then come test again)

Give you practice in teaching-specific skills you will need as an educator (finding and evaluating online teaching resources, critiquing and modifying lesson plans)

We hope you enjoy and learn a lot!

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