Disrupting class in a one to-one laptop program for laptop institute
- 1. Disrupting Class in a One‐to‐One Laptop Program L t P Joe Bires www.edtechleadership.com p joebires@gmail.com www.twitter.com/joebires http://joebires.wikispaces.com/
- 2. Today s Big Questions Today’s Big Questions What do we know about laptop programs and What do we know about laptop programs and learning? How can one‐to‐one be disruptive (in a positive way)? way)? How can you facilitate that disruption?
- 3. “Breaking an old business model is Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be th i i ti t Th ill l b persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by." ~ Clayton Christensen Business Week Clayton Christensen Business Week
- 13. “Teachers have implemented Teachers have implemented computers in the most computers in the most common‐sense way—to sustain their existing practices and pedagogies rather than to and pedagogies rather than to displace them. displace them.”
- 14. “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able way they are You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them l dj l h alone.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- 16. “Bring a tape player and a tape of a thunderstorm. Keep it hidden. Sometime during the lecture, start Keep it hidden Sometime during the lecture start the tape, stand up, claim that the professor has angered the gods and leave. Watch to see how angered the gods and leave. Watch to see how many students follow you after the tape starts playing. ”
- 17. “to succeed disruptive to succeed, disruptive technologies must be applied technologies must be applied in applications where the alternative is nothing.”
- 18. Don’t integrate….so much as…. INTERVENE to transform learning to transform learning
- 21. Infrastructure PD and Tech Support Policy Hardware and and Leadership Software
- 22. “established companies the firm's established companies, the firm s "legislative" system, or resource g y allocation process, shapes every proposal to serve the existing proposal to ser e the e isting customers better and thereby y generate substantial growth”
- 24. “An organization simply cannot “A i i i l disrupt itself….but a manager who p g sits one level up from the organization she wants to disrupt can organization she wants to disrupt can set up a new organization with different resources, processes, and priorities and successfully disrupt the priorities and successfully disrupt the old, internal organization. “
- 25. “in every organization there are forces that shape and morph forces that shape and morph every new innovative proposal so that it fits the existing organization s own business organization's own business model, rather than fitting the market it was intended to serve.”
- 29. Questions???? joebires@gmail.com www.edtechleadership.com www.twitter.com/joebires www twitter com/joebires