Tweet of the Week with Norm McGaughey April 7, 2017 Dr. Terry Alban
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[DR.TERRY ALBAN] Welcome to Tweet of the Week and this week we're going to be talking
about one of my favorite subjects.
It was a subject I enjoyed very much when I was in high school, and yes you will be
surprised to know that we had it going on even back then.
I'm joined by Norm McGaughey who is our Coordinator for Career and Technology Education,
and Norm, I know you have been working really hard to bring some exciting new programs to
our Career and Technology Education offerings for students and you tweeted about some of
that.
[NORM MCGAUGHEY] Right, on Friday Katie Heefner and I, our teacher specialist, actually spent
some time with the Advisory Board at Hood and really spent some time with some local
business people as well as really trying to find a way to get more people involved in
computer science because we know there's 19,000 jobs right now that aren't filled
in the computer science industry.
And, so for the last three years we began integrating coding and computer science in
middle school and also the development of the foundations of computer science at the
high school level which enables you to receive your Tech Ed credit has really bolstered our
numbers.
And, we're starting to really see, um, some momentum in that field.
And, um, the next objective, one of the things we're doing is, is rewriting the curriculum
in our seventh grade communication techniques to expose more middle school kids to the computer
science because we really feel that's the time where they begin thinking about their
future so we're excited about it.
[TERRY] That is so true, and as you said a field that continues to grow a great need,
and I think if students can get interested in that they're going to be lots of possibilities
for them.
And, things like hour of code.
Even let our little ones form PreK on up begin to explore the idea how do you program and
get the computer to do the things you want.
[NORM] Right, and, and I think it's more in showing the students what computer science
isn't.
To me it's really a medium for like problem solving and self-expression and it's everywhere.
One of the new courses that Hood is coming out with is Musical Computation, utilizing
computer and coding for music, so there's, I think if we just get more students exposed
to it they'll realize that, you know, this, this might be something for me.
We know that, um, really our goal is nontraditional students because we know a female in high
school that takes one class of computer science is ten times more likely to major in computer
science in college.
So, maybe just that one class will you know spark that interest.
[TERRY] And, I think it's wonderful that you're talking to our colleagues and higher
education in the business community because they will help keep it real and perhaps can
also serve as mentors and key guest speakers for our students and our staff to see the
applications.
Because I think you're right, I think sometimes students don't realize how far ranging this
field is and the different areas you can go into that are going to require some computer
science work.
[NORM] Right, another thing we did also with FCC is we had our cyber security day the last
few years.
And, now their enrollment for that program is tremendous.
I think just showing students what it is, is really gonna be the secret.
So, the more we can get it out there, I think, you know, we'll be making a difference.
[TERRY] Well, keep on tweeting about it, and if you're a little bit curious now students
go talk to a teacher, found out, give it a try.
It is a great field for the future.
Norm, thanks so much for being here today and thank you for all your doing to spur on
wonderful things in Career and Technology Education.
Thank you for joining us for Tweet of the Week.
Hope to see you next time.
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