Internet for All
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This document provides management tips for teachers in a 1:1 classroom environment where each student has their own device. It discusses establishing clear signals for gaining students' attention, teaching password management, partnering with students to help with tech support, integrating social media into lessons, using timers and check-ins during classwork, arranging the classroom layout, setting clear expectations for computer use, and ensuring internet safety training is provided. The tips emphasize consistency, picking battles wisely, and practicing "management by walking around" to monitor students.
Internet for All
- 1. Internet for All Management Tips for a Successful 1:1 Classroom
- 2. Simple Signals Shark It! Lights Out! Teachers should have a procedure for pausing technology use. This should require just a few words and be very clear.
- 3. Password Management Password management is a life skill that our students need to learn. Teach kids to never share their passwords with friends. Kids need simple ways to select and remember passwords.
- 4. Simple Passwords (that are memorable) Favorite Pokémon + Favorite Attack NatuCharm HorseaRoar Favorite Animal + Hobby SnakeBaking DogSkateboarding Favorite… Color + Food purplesteak
- 6. Integrate and Orchestrate Rather than seeing social networking sites as the enemy, incorporate them into learning. Have discussion groups in places like Edmodo and Hangouts. Have students Tweet real and relevant reflections or inquiries learning activities as exit tickets.
- 7. Check Ins Make sure your lessons have a clear agenda with time for class check ins. Ask students to hold up devices at certain time with their work on it. Ask students to share their work with pairs or groups then report out. Have students respond to a poll or open response, etc. When there are regular check-ins, it is easy to ensure students are engaged.
- 8. MWA In the 1890s, when Theodore Roosevelt was the Police Commissioner of New York City, citizens didn't trust the police. Roosevelt wanted to address the problem. So what did he do? Create a task force? Audit management? No. He practiced MWA, Management by Walking Around.
- 9. Pick Your Battles Sometimes it's just not worth telling a student to put their hat away, or the water bottle, or to raise their hand to go to the pencil sharpener. It's the same with computers. If you try to put out every little fire in the classroom, you won't get anything done.
- 10. Consistency Be consistent with rules and computer use. One way to reinforce this is to have VIP (Visual Instruction Plans) in your classroom. These are simply posters with instructions for computer use. Posters should address the most-asked questions. Then all you have to do is, calmly and coolly, point to a poster on the wall, instead of being distracted by answering the same question 100 times. Keeping a cool attitude also impresses students!
- 11. Timers Timers can be great for activities such as quizzes, warm ups, discussions, and more. If you're doing a class activity that involves the computer, use a timer that students can see so that your students know they don't have all day and you might find they manage their time better.
- 12. Classroom Arrangement This is important and goes hand-in- hand with "Management by Walking Around." Sometimes you'll want the students in groups, so MWA is essential. Other times, you'll want them in rows (testing, for example) so you can see each computer screen all at once. Let them know that you expect to see what they completed each day.
- 13. Music or Not? According to the New Jersey Institute of Technology, students who studied with music playing had lower average tests scores than those who didn’t. Another, more conclusive, study by the University of Wales focused on the effect of different types of music on a student’s concentration. Although the results showed no significant difference in the test scores of students who listened to music they liked and students who heard music they didn’t enjoy, those who studied in silence scored significantly higher than students in both other groups.
- 14. Checking the History Ctrl+H – Open the browsing history. Ctrl+J – Open the download history. You can always check a student’s browsing history quickly if you thing they have been misbehaving on the computer.
- 15. Internet Safety The district is required by law (because of eRate) to provide Internet Safety training to all students. When this was put in affect in 2012, the district adopted the NetSmartz curriculum. The materials are free to download and are divided by age group.
- 16. Expectations At the beginning of the year, we tell our students what we expect. Good pedagogy requires this be done for every class and every lesson, whether or not computers are involved. As for computers, tell them clearly what you expect, such as no idle surfing, no Instant Messaging, etc.