Implementing 1:1 Laptops
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The document discusses the challenges and realities of implementing a 1:1 laptop initiative in education, highlighting issues such as slow technological uptake, teacher self-concept, student engagement, and management of hardware and risks. It emphasizes the need for teachers to unlearn outdated beliefs and adapt to the needs and learning styles of Generation Y and Z students. Strategies include project-based learning, collaboration, and situating learning within students' real-world contexts to bridge the gap between teachers and students.
Implementing 1:1 Laptops
- 1. If laptops are the answer…. What is the question?
- 2. Implementing 1:1 The reality and the challenges
- 3. Where is the digital revolution? The promise: high engagement deep learning real world connections critical thinking powerful networks The reality: slow uptake hardware hassles safety concerns diluted learning significant expense
- 4. Baby-boomers technology as a necessary evil learn via instruction and following patterns grew up in an era when people asked “do you have the phone on at home?” rule followers, not rule breakers they ask “what was wrong with the way we were doing things?” Who is delivering tech-mediated learning?
- 5. Generation Y no such thing as technology learn via goal-directed play and via relationships grew up in an era when people asked “why do you have the phone on at home?” Only follow the rules they can rationalise they ask “why should I do it your way?” Who is receiving tech-mediated learning?
- 6. How can we be ready for Gen Z?
- 7. Class was dismissed, but Amy wasn’t finished. I found her in a stairwell, sending her work to her teacher.
- 8. Quiet ≠ Learning
- 10. relationships or nothing
- 11. WHERE ARE THE TEACHERS?
- 14. Teacher self-concept Real student engagement Managing the reality of hardware Managing the risks Training time, training budget A good reason for using ICT The issues
- 15. Build clever teams: Project focused, mixed ability, well resourced, clear parameters Celebrate small successes Show and tell Certificates Food 1. Teacher self-concept
- 16. 2. Real student engagement
- 17. Gen Y approach Real world problem with a clear rationale Range of tools available Quality, ethical instruction Working together Goal-oriented play Fast, colourful with built-in rewards - let them create the media 2. Real Student Engagement
- 20. Nothing is simple Nothing is cheap Every decision must move the school towards its strategic goal Use the support available Under promise and over deliver 3. Managing the reality of Hardware
- 22. Acceptable Use Procedures!! Test and review Communicate with parents regularly Educate parents and teachers Change classroom teacher behaviour 4. Managing the risks
- 24. What must teachers change? Classroom management Teacher supervision Lesson preparation Resource development
- 25. Most teachers love change
- 26. What we need to unlearn We need to unlearn the premise that we know more than our kids, because in many cases, they can now be our teachers as well.
- 27. What we need to unlearn We need to unlearn our fear of putting ourselves and our students "out there" for we've proven we can do it in safe, relevant and effective ways.
- 28. What we need to unlearn We need to unlearn the idea that students needs and world-views are the same now as when we trained to be teacher s.
- 29. Never enough time! Project based or not at all In house experts Give and take iPods – anywhere – anytime Delicious (smc_professional) 5. Training Time – Training Budget
- 31. Match strategies to outcomes and to kids Don’t shift delivery methods – shift thinking Broader audience for review and affirmation Collaboration with experts (skype, blog) Critical writing and response (interschool blog) Quality research (not google search) Manage learning over time (google docs, del.icio.us, wiki, e-portfolio) 6. A good reason
- 33. There is a gulf which is widening between teachers and their students as their worlds drift apart. Situating learning and assessment within a student’s world is a first step to bridging that gulf. Presenting a research task as a PowerPoint show is not part of the answer. 6. A good reason
- 34. DO NOT treat laptops as if they were weapons-grade plutonium
- 35. DO NOT spend hours designing something your students could create in minutes
- 36. DO NOT attempt to perfect or master anything but learning and teaching
- 37. DO NOT forget the teacher next door
- 38. GREG ELLIOTT St Mary Star of the Sea College Wollongong