If laptops are the answer…. What is the question?

Implementing 1:1 The reality and the challenges

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

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

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?

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?”

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?

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?”

How can we be ready for Gen Z?

Class was dismissed, but Amy wasn’t finished. I found her in a stairwell, sending her work to her teacher.

Quiet ≠ Learning

relationships or nothing

WHERE ARE THE TEACHERS?

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

Teacher self-concept

Real student engagement

Managing the reality of hardware

Managing the risks

Training time, training budget

A good reason for using ICT

Build clever teams: Project focused, mixed ability, well resourced, clear parameters Celebrate small successes Show and tell Certificates Food 1. Teacher self-concept

Build clever teams:

Project focused, mixed ability, well resourced, clear parameters

Celebrate small successes

Show and tell

Certificates

Food

2. Real student engagement

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

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

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

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

Acceptable Use Procedures!! Test and review Communicate with parents regularly Educate parents and teachers Change classroom teacher behaviour 4. Managing the risks

Acceptable Use Procedures!! Test and review

Communicate with parents regularly

Educate parents and teachers

Change classroom teacher behaviour

What must teachers change? Classroom management Teacher supervision Lesson preparation Resource development

Classroom management

Teacher supervision

Lesson preparation

Resource development

Most teachers love change

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We need to unlearn the idea that students needs and world-views are the same now as when we trained to be teacher s.

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

Never enough time!

Project based or not at all

In house experts

Give and take

iPods – anywhere – anytime

Delicious (smc_professional)

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

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)

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

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.

DO NOT treat laptops as if they were weapons-grade plutonium

DO NOT treat laptops as if they were weapons-grade plutonium

DO NOT spend hours designing something your students could create in minutes

DO NOT spend hours designing something your students could create in minutes

DO NOT attempt to perfect or master anything but learning and teaching

DO NOT attempt to perfect or master anything but learning and teaching

DO NOT forget the teacher next door

DO NOT forget the teacher next door

GREG ELLIOTT St Mary Star of the Sea College Wollongong

St Mary Star of the Sea College Wollongong