1:1 Parent Night

1. Emerging technologies in Education
Where are we heading?
Tom Sexton
Assistant to the Director:Planning & Resources
Catholic Education Office Sandhurst

2. Emerging technologies in Education
Where are we heading?

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5. Emerging technologies in Education
Where are we heading?
Learners learn in the context of their lives. P Senge
Today’s education system faces irrelevance, unless we bridge
the gap between how students live and how they learn. M Furdyk

6. Emerging technologies in Education
Where are we heading?
Digital Immigrant
• Born before 1982
• Has to ‘choose’ to learn new technologies
• Slower to adapt and embrace
Digital Native
• Is ‘used’ to and expects new technologies
• Adapts quickly as it is normal to them
A Footnote
Not all people born prior to 1982 are immigrants, as not all our students
are
naturally native. Generally speaking though, this is currently seen
as a normal reality in society, the workplace and education.

7. Emerging technologies in Education
Where are we heading?
We need technology in
every classroom and in
every student and teacher’s
hand, because it is the pen
and paper of our time, and it
is the lens through which we
experience much of our
world.

8. So why 1:1 programs?
An Investigation of the First Year of 1:1 Computing in New Hampshire Middle Schools
Damian Bebell, Boston College, 2005
(400 7th grade students plus their teachers in 6 schools)

9. Sandhurst Research
302 student responses

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18. Emerging technologies in Education
Where are we heading?

19. Emerging technologies in Education
Where are we heading?
Profession
Professional
al
Technical
Financial
Learning
Advice
For Classrooms
For
Leaders

20. Emerging technologies in Education
Where are we heading?
We are not talking about a iPad revolution.
We are talking about an
education
revolution!

21. Emerging technologies in Education
What is next?
• Staff preparation
• Boot Camp
• Parent Information Night
• iPad Licence

22. Emerging technologies in Education
Where are we heading?
Technology is not an additive to education,
it is a facilitator of education.
Sir Ken Robinson

23. Emerging technologies in Education
Where are we heading?
We need technology in
every classroom and in
every student and teacher’s
hand, because it is the pen
and paper of our time, and it
is the lens through which we
experience much of our
world.

24. Emerging technologies in Education
Young people especially are rapidly adapting to
the computer culture and its ‘language’. This is
surely a cause for satisfaction. Let us trust the
young. They have the advantage of growing up
with the new developments, and it will be their
duty to employ these instruments for a wider
and more intense dialogue among all the
diverse races and classes who share this
shrinking globe.
Pope John Paul II
May 1989
Where are we heading?

25. Emerging technologies in Education
Where are we heading?
Questions ?