January 19, 2012 Meeting:

IT State Advisory Group Meeting

• Agenda
• State Advisory Group Meeting Presentation
• Towson University Affiliate: Tranforming IT Program Support Presentation
• IT State Advisory Group Members  
  

Handouts:

• IT Career Cluster Briefing Report - provides an overview of IT-related CTE Programs in Maryland
• Cisco Academy Listing - provides listing of all Maryland Cisco Academies (high school and college)
• NAF Academy Listing - provides overview of Academy of Information Technology courses and schools
• Cyber Security Overview - provides a review of Maryland Cyber Security education initiatives
  

Resources for Computer Science:

Additional information and resources provided by members of the Maryland IT State Advisory Group:

-- CSTA's new K-12 Computer Science Standards:

http://csta.acm.org/Curriculum/sub/K12Standards.html

-- Our policy-level report called Running on Empty: The Failure to Teach K–12 Computer Science in the Digital Age (which articulates a lot of the issues we discussed yesterday and lays out the case for computer science education)

http://www.acm.org/runningonempty

-- Computing in the Core's website (which is the advocacy coalition that our corporate and non-profit Members have formed to advocate for K-12 CS education):

http://www.computinginthecore.org

-- The College Board's CS Principles website:

http://www.collegeboard.com/html/computerscience/index.html

Maryland State Department of Education Resources:

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