Participate and share: Interactive session 
Recorded Session
Many educators cannot afford high quality resources
for technology career awareness, especially resources with virtual field trips and interviews featuring a diverse workforce. In addition, funding drops since the remote learning support during the pandemic make traditional in person field trips very problematic. Virtual field trips, funded by major companies,meet that need, especially through the STEM Career Coalition (STEMcareercoalition.org). The technology intervention includes live (interactive) and archived field trips. The online curriculum resources also include web simulations, student challenges, and premade ppt (and other) presentations for teachers. Three virtual field trips will be modeled, then participants will explore others. Based on participant pollings, the models will chosen from Boeing, LG, Stanley Black & Decker, AstraZeneca, Center for Nuclear Science or others from the STEM Coalition. Each has an interactive field trip (now archived), which will be briefly shown, then the accompanying lesson plans, interactives, and standards-based alignments for grades 3-12, will get a deep dive.
Each of these sites, and all OER sites in the presentation, have
lesson plans targeting specific grade levels and/or subject areas.
Evidence of success. Many of these OER programs are too new for
documented success. All are monitored so assessments of success will be available at each program's review. Formative success for this session will be participants sharing awareness of these sites and resources with their own educational colleagues and with others. This will be done with guided practice, That is the primary purpose of the session. A second primary purpose is enable meaningful use of them in classrooms.
Evidence of success is monitored by regular tracking of resources by the STEM Career Coalition, teacher polls and feedback sessions (many led by the presenter), and web monitored. The groups that fund these resources want to make sure there is success to justify the funding.
15 minutes: Presenter explains origin and scope of free material. Breaks
participants into teams. Presenter models resource "scraping" by diving deep into resources, using three examples from free Open Education Resources. Participants download master workshop materials ( on phones, tablets, or laptops) from the Google Doc built for the session. The doc contains links, theme, and targets -teachers or parents or after school programs--simplifying resource exploration.
-15 minutes: Participants in teams explore no-cost resource sites and
materials. Many of the resources have branches for different grades levels
and goals. Career resources include artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and privacy.Each team will be guides to explore a minimum, of two resource
sites. Teams then create six-word stories summaries of the resource(s) they
reviewed.
-20 minutes: Teams present their six-word stories and expand on the
resources they reviewed. After exploring, they move six-word story
summaries on to a pre-set Google Doc.
-10 minutes: Review of new summaries. Reflections, Q & A
Research supporting examples for career awareness.
Dawson, Kara, et al. "Promoting interdisciplinary integration of cybersecurity knowledge, skills and career awareness in preservice teacher education." Journal of Technology and Teacher Education 30.2 (2022): 275-287.
Rivera, Lourdes M., and Mary Beth Schaefer. "The Career Institute: A Collaborative Career Development Program for Traditionally Underserved Secondary (6—12) School Students." Journal of Career Development 35.4 (2009): 406-426.
"Role of Career Exploration in Influencing Career Choice among
Pre-University (High Schoo) Students" Noor Ashira Yusran,Mohd Hazwan Mohd Puad, * and Muhd Khaizer Omar2, Pertanica, Social Science, and Humanities Journal 2019)
Wood, Chris, and Yvonne Kaszubowski. "The career development needs of rural elementary school students." The Elementary School Journal 108.5 (2008): 431-444.
"Partnering with Families for Middle School Career Exploration. Research-Based Strategies for Middle-Level Educators" Developed by the Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center Keli Bussell, Patrick D. Cunningham, Edward C. Fletcher, Jr., Barbara J. Boone, and Traci Lepicki (2021)
"How can a relevance intervention in math support students' career choices?"HeidePiesch1HannaGaspard1CoraParrisiusEikeWilleBenjaminNagengast, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
Volume 71, November–December 2020, 101185
"Career development learning in childhood: a collaborative guidance approach in Spanish low-income contexts" Soledad Romero-RodríguezORCID Icon,Celia Moreno-MorillaORCID Icon &Eduardo García-JiménezORCID Icon, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling (2021)
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