Paul Hynes, SSAT

Slide 1: Getting to grips with using student-owned technologies as learning tools – what have schools learned so far? Paul Hynes Programme coordinator – ICT Strategies paul.hynes@ssatrust.org.uk

Slide 2: Contents Background What are schools currently doing? What issues have they found? What strategies are they using?

Slide 3: “Being sent to your bedroom used to be a punishment: now it’s a teen dream. Through personal computers, mobile phones and gaming consoles, teenagers are spurning anti-social angst for a culture of connected cocooning” Quote from The Guardian 10th Nov 2005

Slide 4: You don’t know you were born

Slide 5: What are schools doing with the devices? • Why student owned devices? • Games consoles – PSP, Nintendo DS • MP3/MP4 players • PDAs • Mobile phones – cost model • Making resources available • Providing connectivity and communication

Slide 6: voice document address gpstext phone videosystem games Music player task list web email browser diary radio camera recorder reader book messages © NCSL 2007

Slide 7: Phone future

Slide 8: What are schools doing with the devices? • The PlayStation Portable (PSP) case study • Features of the PSP – Screen quality – Sound quality – Wireless connectivity – Good storage capacity • PSP Penetration – the sample class

Slide 9: •View MS Word docs •View photos and video •View MS Excel spreadsheets •View PowerPoint presentations •Listen to Audio files •Access the Internet •Subscribe to RSS feeds •Record audio podcasts •Take photos (inc. macro mode) •GPS system •Record video •(Play games as well) NEXT STEPS: PSP specific learning resources Connect to a monitor/projector eBook reader Voice over IP

Slide 11: Student examples

Slide 12: Podcasting video

Slide 13: Creating material using ‘green screen’ technology Adobe Visual Communicator - Use of subtitles Student activity

Slide 14: Issues – what is getting the way? • Convincing the staff – classroom management • Keeping students on task • Sanctions for misuse • Limitations of the technology • Standards, standards, standards • Digital divide(s) • Cost models for mobile phones

Slide 15: The future ICT budget? • Student-owned devices – Initial cost – Technical support – Training – Disposal cost – Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) – Insurance • Sustainable wireless infrastructure • Use of online applications • Provision of learning resources and activities in appropriate formats

Slide 16: Advice from schools • Audit the students – what have they got? What next? • Forget the device – they change too quick • Make material and services available independent of the device in a range of formats • Try using Google docs and spreadsheets • Start with a PSP club? Ownership of devices • Look at buying class sets • Look to employ web/media support • Think about how future ICT budgets may work

Slide 17: Comments & Questions paul.hynes@ssatrust.org.uk