UK CDA and Cisco Networking Academy Innovate like

UK CDA and Cisco Networking Academy Innovate like a Technologist. Think like an Entrepreneur. Act as a Social Agent. Nuno Guarda Head of Corporate Affairs UK&I November 2016 nguarda@cisco. com

”… ensure that all pupils can understand apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science…” Statutory guidance, National curriculum in England: computing programmes of study © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 2

New Computing Curriculum launched in September 2014 • ICT is no longer taught as it used to be: no more focus on applications (word processor, spreadsheet, etc) • © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 3

New Computing Curriculum Key Stage 1 KS 1 Ages: 5, 6, 7 Key Stage 2 KS 2 Ages: 8, 9, 10 Key Stage 4 Key Stage 3 KS 3 Ages: 11, 12, 13 KS 4 Ages: 14, 15, 16 © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4

New Computing Curriculum All students will have to study this new curriculum • Df. E selected Computing at School (CAS) to drive the national efforts to (re)train teachers • © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 5

Opportunity • Many teachers don’t have any formal Academic training in Computing • Net. Acad expertise in Instructor training is relevant to help teachers become more confident and knowledgeable in Computing © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 6

Opportunity • Net. Space, Net. Acad’s platform, is being used to host the course and help training teachers • Net. Acad is developing a pilot involving up to 1, 000 teachers and 30, 000 students © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 7

Solution: Community Developed Course • Course developed by Education leaders • Includes newly developed content alongside publicly available one • Available for free to all Cisco Academies (pilot) © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 8

Community Developed Course • CAS Master Teachers and other teachers have been using the course Packer Tracer used in practical exercises and considered very useful • Embedded assessments • © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 9

Advantages to Schools • Materials to help teach the National Computing curriculum • Packer Tracer software freely available to teachers and students • Additional free Net. Acad courses for CPD © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 10

Computing Progression Pathways • The first version of the course covers the Communication & Networking strand • Additional content is expected within 6 -8 months © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 11

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How to join? • To join Net. Acad for free, just visit https: //www. netacad. com/get-started/educators/, scroll down and click on “Become an Academy” • Fill in the online form, and add to the note section “CAS” © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 13

Go To Market © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 14

Go To Market • CAS created 10 National Hubs that became Centers of Excellence (Co. E) • Each Co. E trains 30 CAS Master Teachers (CMT) • Each CMT trains 30 Teachers © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 15

Go To Market • Within the current pilot, we’re targeting 1, 000 teachers • Most will be affiliated to one Co. E © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 16

Go To Market • CAS and its Co. E are aware of the course • Course explaining during training sessions and events © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 17

Next Steps © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 18

Next Steps • Improve and evolve the current version • Make Computing for Schools 2. 0 more engaging and exiting • How? © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 19

Computing Progression Pathways © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 20

Next Steps • UK CDA budget to fund the development of the Computing for Schools course • Two Net. Acad Partners involved directly in the development © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 21

Roadmap Evolve the current version of the course Expand it to one or two additional strands Evolve Q 2 FY 17 Q 3 FY 17 Train teacher in the new version Expand the creation of new CAs Q 1 FY 18 Develop Train Adopt Q 4 FY 17 Promote adoption of the course Students should start using the new version of the course Develop the course Validate development with key CAS Master Teachers © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 22

Additional Considerations • Growth may become an issue (students) • Alternative platform being considered • Teachers to use Net. Space; Students to use a 3 rd party platform © 2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 23