Presentation resources
Below is the text content of the PPT -- an outline of the talking points for the presentation.
The Technicals
1. Can we support it?- Be prepared to help all platforms onto your wifi - buy them, and try them!
- Write the limits of your support of, and liability for, personal devices into your AUP.
- CIPA-compliant? Student use of login accounts/email
- Make sure your system can register and associate devices with login accounts.
- Design AD groups to scale access based on training (“Digital Drivers License”)
- Not just wifi capacity, but bandwidth all the way upstream.
- “Transparent proxy” eliminates proxy dependency of apps and browsers
- Encourage the selection of resources (tutorials, videos, etc.) which are “device neutral”
- EnteraSys hardware.
- Full 1-1 coverage for high school, middle school classrooms (1 WAP/classroom, several in group spaces).
- Elementary schools are “close.”
- 40,000 students, 4,000 adults, 58 schools 44,000 registered devices. Most days show 7,000 active.
Fears
1. Student Monitoring, and Off-Task Behavior- Begin the discussion now about the impact of more autonomous student work on lesson plan design (more later).
- Leverage a Learning Management System to manage links, and monitor student access to materials and activities.
- Make teacher, school, and district online presences interactive.
- Have teacher participation in crowdsourced knowledge construction and discussion a part of their professional responsibilities. Give PD credit for such.
- Use online storage for teacher professional responsibilities and resources.
Instructional Practice
1. The disappearing lecture- Start the move away from the teacher role of information deliverer (“Sage on the Stage”), and towards facilitation (”Guide on the Side”).
- Find and leverage online materials, media, and experts.
- Examine the “Flipped” classroom concept.
- Increase focus on project-based learning and collaborative learning.
- Promote classroom practice which can support a variety of activities at once, including an increase in student autonomy.
- Select a student storage platform which works for you age group. Use it now, yourself!
- SkyDrive, SkyDrive Pro, Google Drive, Dropbox, Learning Management Systems (Edmodo, Moodle, etc.)
- Increase the use of online and electronic assessments, especially formative.
- Add changes in teacher’s instructional practice (rather than just student outcomes) to teacher accountability processes.
Fairness
1. Access to devices- Provide small numbers of student-use classroom computers for projects which require them.
- Purchase and make available devices to take home for students who do not have them.
- Expand alternative access through ESS/extended school library hours, and community partners such as city libraries and businesses.
- Connect to parents through the AUP process.
