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1-1 Essentials

Basic starting points for teaching 1-1 environment

Tami Brass

Director of Instructional Technology

St. Paul Academy and Summit School

tbrass@spa.edu @brasst on Twitter

tamilu.brass@gmail.com

http://goo.gl/MXzXw

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What is 1-1?

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1-1 Models

  • Computer, tablet, or ???
    • Provided by school or provided by family
    • Single platform, school-selected options
    • Multiple platform, school selected options
  • BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop)
  • BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), school determined capabilities
  • Paid for with
    • School resources
    • Tech fee
    • Family purchase or lease

Every student has one

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Device selection

What are your instructional goals?

What integration is already in place?

What tools can't you live without?

What can you live without?

How much training/PD is realistic?

How much local storage is needed?

Which hardware?

  • For students
  • For teachers

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Device Capabilities

Single platform

  • What software or apps do they all have?
  • What unique capabilities are there?
    • Touch screen
    • "Inking"
    • Multimedia suite

Mixed platform

  • What capabilities do they all have?
    • Record audio
    • Record video
    • Take pics
    • Word process/type
    • Access internet
  • List of apps/ software with similar function
  • Online toolbox
  • Use the cloud

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Rethinking Lesson Design

Every student has a device with the capability to access virtually unlimited information. The same device can be used to take photos, record audio and video, process text, author software, communicate with people around the globe, and perform extensive mathematical and scientific calculations.

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Now what?

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Charles Reed Bishop Learning Center | Kamehameha Schools ...

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Lesson design pointers

  • Start simple. Transformation takes time and experience. (Think three years!)
  • What do you want kids to learn?
  • Must haves vs can haves
  • Teachable moments change everything
  • Content expertise and info access
  • Tool familiarity (basics and potential)
  • Over-prepare (Have a Plan B and Plan C)
  • Flexibility and resilience
  • Reflect and revise
  • Share - collaborate with peers (all contents)

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When to go low tech...

  • When you have a low-tech solution that checks all the boxes
  • When the tool is too new and the stakes are too high (pilot should always be low-stakes)
  • When the $$$ means you'll lose something even better
  • When the outcome isn't worth the effort (long-run results)
  • If using the technology is the only reason you want to use technology (curriculum and kids come first)

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Classroom management

What are your expectations?

What do administrators/colleagues expect?

  • Student buy-in --> owning choices
  • Clear and consistent
  • Engagement
    • Physical movement
    • Social interaction
    • Gaming and challenges

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Faculty suggestions

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Expectations...

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Parent management

  • Communicate policies
  • Permission to parent, coaching
  • Frequent updates
  • Be proactive
  • Make access easy
    • School expectations
    • What's happening in school
    • Lessons and resources used/needed
    • Tech support
    • Parenting support

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Content management

Kids under 13?

What's your process for:

  • Teacher-sharing
  • Student to student collaboration
  • Student to teacher (handing in)
  • Feedback loop
  • Long-term storage
  • How much space is needed?
  • Where do parents fit in?

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Workflow

  • What's most simple?
  • What can all kids access?
  • Standardize to simplify
  • Make it easy
  • Example form
    • Front end
    • Back end
    • Spreadsheet

Methods

  • Internal servers
  • Web 2.0 accounts
  • Google Apps
  • LMS or CMS
  • Google Forms
  • Email
    • Links
    • Files

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Essential tech survival skills

  • Navigating to a website
  • Navigating an operating system
  • Entering and working with text
  • Taking a pic/video
  • Saving and accessing files
  • Basic troubleshooting (refresh, reload, quit, reboot)
  • Using a search engine

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Need for a tech/media curriculum map

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Don't forget...

  • IWBs
  • Projectors
  • Document cameras
  • Clickers
  • Dongles
  • Cameras
  • Printers
  • Cases
  • Classroom lighting
  • Loaner devices

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  • Flash drives, SD cards, external drives
  • Spare chargers
  • Power strips
  • Styli or graphics tablets
  • Headphones
  • Microphones

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Will some labs still be needed?

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Resources...

tbrass@spa.edu

@brasst on Twitter

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More resources:

http://goo.gl/4Z4Xn

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This presentation:

http://goo.gl/MXzXw