Affordable educational technology needs to first be effective and therefore requires a clear educational vision that addresses the needs of 21st century learners. This holistic educational approach will then guide the direction for technology expenditures and use.

1. 10 Steps to an Affordable
Educational Technology Policy
Sam Gliksman
samgliksman@gmail.com
Twitter: @samgliksman
http://ipadEducators.ning.com

2. About Sam Gliksman
 Director of Educational Technology,
New Community Jewish High School
 Independent Consultant
 Working with 1:1 and BYOD programs
 Founder of iPads in Education website
http://iPadEducators.ning.com
 Twitter: @samgliksman
 Email: samgliksman@gmail.com

3. Today’s Objectives
 Define 10 Steps to an Affordable Educational
Technology Plan
 Develop a cost effective, sustainable educational
technology plan that addresses 21st century
educational needs
 Steer the discussion in a positive direction… and you
won’t always agree with me …

4. “Affordable”…
has to be “Effective”
“Affordable” educational technology has
to address a vision for its use

5. You purchase personal technology
to fit your specific lifestyle

6. 1995
What were you doing?

13. What do they all have in common … ?

14. What’s significant isn’t that they went out of business
They were market leaders for entire industries
that quickly became obsolete…
They didn’t adjust to the changing needs of
a rapidly evolving market

15. And what about education?

16. Have we reached OUR moment?
Are schools delivering a 20th century education
that’s becoming obsolete?
Are we adequately preparing children for their
rapidly changing lives in the 21st century?

17. How does this impact our educational technology?
Technology is NOT the answer…
Unless educational technology is integrated into
learning models that address 21st century needs

19. 1. Clarify your educational vision

20. Technology has changed the rules of the game
Access to knowledge used to be scarce
School was designed to be a hub that brought people and
content together
But now content is everywhere.
“Educations needs to deal with abundance - not scarcity”
Will Richardson

21. How do reform education?
It’s all about context!

22. The only constant is …
change

23. Computing power
Today’s washing machine has more computing
power than all NASA's computing resources when it
first landed man on the moon

24. Capacity
Price of 1 gigabyte of memory in 1981?
$300,000
Price of 1 gigabyte in 2012?
10 cents

25. Ubiquity
Anyone have
a cell phone?

26. Affordability

27. Pervasive
Children use technology 7 hrs a day on average – up to
50 hours a week
Children spending twice as much time looking at screens
as they do sitting in class
It’s changing the way they process information and learn

28. Connected – Social Networking
Facebook didn’t exist prior to 2004…
Today 1 out of every 9 people on the planet
has a Facebook page

29. Mobile and Networked
ACSD study
 69% of US high schools ban mobile devices on campus
 In schools that ban mobile devices, 63% of students use
them anyway
 47% say they can text message with eyes closed

30. Essential
What technology do you “need”?
They all have one thing in common
None existed 10 years ago
What will you “need” 10 years from now?

31. If context is important…
Children starting elementary school today will
graduate in 2024
What will the world look like in 2024?
How do we educate and prepare children for a
world we don’t know anything about?

32. What should learning look like in
the 21st century?

33. 21st century learning is …
Connected

34. 21st century learning is …
Mobile, anytime-anywhere
Physical & virtual
Student centered, personalized

35. 21st century learning is …
New literacies , Prioritized skills (ISTE NETS)
Collaborative
Creation (and sharing) vs consumption

36. 21st century learning is …
Multimedia
Creative thinking over memorization
Graduates independent learners

37. 1. Clarify your vision
2. Invest in infrastructure

38. Infrastructure: Connectivity
 Future is wireless and mobile
 Two elements to consider:
1. What connection comes in to campus?
2. How well is it distributed within campus?
 Filtering and monitoring?

39. Infrastructure: Facilities
 Do your physical facilities support your learning program?
 Easily arranged furniture, color, daylight, open spaces etc…

40. 1. Clarify your educational vision
2. Invest in wireless infrastructure
3. Save on classroom projection

41. Classroom Projection
 Classroom projection is major budget item for most schools
 Heavily dominated by SmartBoard category
 Two critical questions:
 Does investing in frontal teaching fit your vision?
 Do you get value for your investment?

42. Smartboard alternatives
Interactive projectors
HDTV

43. 1. Clarify your educational vision
2. Invest in infrastructure
3. Save on classroom projection
4. Decide on student technology model

44. Technology access model
Lab, mobile cart
– Limited access, shared, school financed and maintained
1:1 Laptops
– Anytime dedicated access
– School purchased, often parent financed
– School maintained and controlled
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
– Anytime dedicated access
– Parent financed, no maintenance … inexpensive
– Limited control
– Web oriented
– Middle, high school

45. Trending towards BYOD…
Cheap, powerful computers and prolific web services
BYOD devices typically more robust, up to date and personalized
Students more engaged, greater accountability
Digital divide - Funds saved on tech can be applied to subsidies
Our goal is to make the educational tools
accessible no matter where they are or what
device they use

46. 1. Clarify your educational vision
2. Invest in infrastructure
3. Save on classroom projection
4. Decide on student technology model
5. Develop a virtual learning environment

47. Online and blended learning
Over 6 million students took online course in 2010 (Babson Research)
200,000 students currently attend online school full time
Predicted 50% of school courses will be online in 10 years
?

48. Do you need school to provide access to Teachers?

49. iTunes University
Hundreds of universities such as
Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, and UC Berkeley distribute
their content publicly

50. Online learning is becoming…
Interactive and driven by interest
Personalized, networked and collaborative
Instant formative feedback, corrective action

51. Investing in an interactive Learning Management System
(LMS) doesn’t have to be costly…

53. Working within a virtual classroom
Moving from posting data and content (announcements,
calendars, handouts) to…
Vibrant place of learning and knowledge exchange
 blogs, discussion forums
 wikis
 polls
 portfolios
 community interaction
 live discussions

54. 1. Clarify your vision
2. Invest in infrastructure
3. Spend less on classroom projection
4. Decide on student technology model
5. Develop a virtual learning environment
6. Emphasize training and modeling

55. Select and train your 15%...

56. Culture change is most effective swelling from
the bottom up
Spend slightly less on equipment and send
culture leaders to conferences (CUE, ISTE)
Success is contagious. Have teachers
demonstrate and train from within
Host workshops at school, combine with other
schools
Culture change is not a one-time event - it
requires an ongoing commitment
Model top-down… start a blog, join Twitter,
develop a PLN

57. Change swells “ground-up” but is modeled “top-down”
Create an open atmosphere of learning
Start a blog
Develop a PLN
- Join Twitter and connect
- Join online networks
• ConnectedPrincipals.com
• Classroom20.com
• iPadEducators.ning.com

58. 1. Clarify your vision
2. Invest in infrastructure
3. Spend less on classroom projection
4. Decide on student technology model
5. Develop a virtual learning environment
6. Emphasize training and modeling
7. Minimize investments in the 3 S’s

59. Minimize Investment in 3 S’s: Servers, Storage & Software
Incidentals:
• Depreciating value
• Battery backup
• Data backup
• Air conditioning
• Physical security
• Software security
• Repair and downtime
• Network consultant
• Software upgrades Do you have a “server closet”?
• Start over - replacement

60. Minimize Investment in 3 S’s – Servers, Storage & Software
Cloud computing can reduce hardware, software and IT
costs dramatically … and add significant functionality

61. Minimize Investment in 3 S’s – Servers, Storage & Software

62. Yes, but … can it flip burgers for me?
The 80/20 rule. Do you really need that function?

63. Why Google Apps?
 Gmail, Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations etc
 Free … and powerful
 Free feature updates
 Anytime-anywhere access
 Simple sharing and collaboration
 Compatibility
 40 mill. users, 4 mill. Businesses
 Did I mention it was free?

64. 1. Clarify your vision
2. Invest in infrastructure
3. Spend less on classroom projection
4. Decide on student technology model
5. Develop a virtual learning environment
6. Emphasize training and modeling
7. Minimize investments in the 3 S’s
8. Throw away the textbooks

65. Information access the old way…

66. Textbooks?

67. Textbooks?
4th Edition
Printed in 2009

68. Apple eTextbooks and iBooks Author

69. eBooks
 Not just interactive and multimedia
 Include testing and formative assessment
 “Social reading”

70. Textbook Alternatives …
BUILD a common knowledge base
Use a class wiki: Wikispaces.com

71. Textbook Alternatives …
Collect and Organize Information
MuseumBox.e2bn.org
LiveBinders.com

72. Textbook Alternatives … Social Bookmarking
Diigo.com

73. 1. Clarify your vision
2. Invest in infrastructure
3. Spend less on classroom projection
4. Decide on student technology model
5. Develop a virtual learning environment
6. Emphasize training and modeling
7. Minimize investments in the 3 S’s
8. Throw away the textbooks
9. Flexibility is vital

74. Today’s technological miracle …
quickly becomes tomorrow’s party joke
If it seems really expensive … there’s probably
a good alternative on the way

75. 1. Clarify your vision
2. Invest in infrastructure
3. Spend less on classroom projection
4. Decide on student technology model
5. Develop a virtual learning environment
6. Emphasize training and modeling
7. Minimize investments in the 3 S’s
8. Throw away the textbooks
9. Flexibility is vital
10. Utilize government subsidies

76. California Teleconnect Fund

77. "If we teach today
as we taught yesterday,
we rob our children of
tomorrow"
- John Dewey

78. Every new challenge
presents an opportunity
for excellence

79. Thank you for your time and patience!
Sam Gliksman
Email: samgliksman@gmail.com
Twitter: @samgliksman
iPads in Education community site
http://iPadEducators.ning.com