This presentation explains how to reexamine a one-to-one laptop program and introduce more disruptive technologies (based on the work of Clay Christensen). First a meta-analysis of what research is telling us about laptop programs is presented. Then this initial presentation inspires a discussion about where laptops programs can be improved by implementing the theory of technology as a disruptive force.

1. Disrupting Class in a One‐to‐One
Laptop Program
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Joe Bires
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2. Today s Big Questions
Today’s Big Questions
What do we know about laptop programs and
What do we know about laptop programs and
learning?
How can one‐to‐one be disruptive (in a positive
way)?
way)?
How can you facilitate that disruption?

3. “Breaking an old business model is
Breaking an old business model is
always going to require leaders to follow
their instinct. There will always be
th i i ti t Th ill l b
persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But
if you only do what worked in the past,
you will wake up one day and find that
you’ve been passed by."
~ Clayton Christensen Business Week
Clayton Christensen Business Week

13. “Teachers have implemented
Teachers have implemented
computers in the most
computers in the most
common‐sense way—to
sustain their existing practices
and pedagogies rather than to
and pedagogies rather than to
displace them.
displace them.”

14. “Certain things, they should stay the
way they are. You ought to be able
way they are You ought to be able
to stick them in one of those big
glass cases and just leave them
l dj l h
alone.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the
Rye

16. “Bring a tape player and a tape of a thunderstorm.
Keep it hidden. Sometime during the lecture, start
Keep it hidden Sometime during the lecture start
the tape, stand up, claim that the professor has
angered the gods and leave. Watch to see how
angered the gods and leave. Watch to see how
many students follow you after the tape starts
playing. ”

17. “to succeed disruptive
to succeed, disruptive
technologies must be applied
technologies must be applied
in applications where the
alternative is nothing.”

18. Don’t integrate….so much as….
INTERVENE to transform learning
to transform learning

21. Infrastructure PD and Tech Support
Policy Hardware
and and
Leadership Software

22. “established companies the firm's
established companies, the firm s
"legislative" system, or resource
g y
allocation process, shapes every
proposal to serve the existing
proposal to ser e the e isting
customers better and thereby y
generate substantial growth”

24. “An organization simply cannot
“A i i i l
disrupt itself….but a manager who
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sits one level up from the
organization she wants to disrupt can
organization she wants to disrupt can
set up a new organization with
different resources, processes, and
priorities and successfully disrupt the
priorities and successfully disrupt the
old, internal organization. “

25. “in every organization there are
forces that shape and morph
forces that shape and morph
every new innovative proposal so
that it fits the existing
organization s own business
organization's own business
model, rather than fitting the
market it was intended to serve.”

29. Questions????
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