This document summarizes an EdTech teacher conference that focused on a school's implementation of 1,000 iPads. It discusses why educational change is needed, visions for learning environments, getting permission to implement a 1-to-1 device program, key implementation steps like budgeting and professional development, preparing students and parents, and contact information for the presenters. Breakout sections provide quotes on topics like the changing role of education, justifying technology and social media use in schools, and how technology can transform the classroom experience.

1. EdTech Teacher Winter Conference
March 3, 2012
The School That Launched
1,000 iPads

2. Why Change?

4. “Education cannot sit in this
customized world as an island,
embracing the Industrial Age, and
expect to survive.”
McGarvey, Beatrice; Beatrice McGarvey (2010-12-19). Inevitable: Mass
Customized Learning (Kindle Locations 138-139). Amazon/
CreateSpace. Kindle Edition.

5. What do we want learning
environments to look like?

6. What’s Your Mission?

7. Massachusetts Board of
Elementary and Secondary Education
Mission Statement
If we continue to block sites like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter
what parts of this need to be modified?
The mission of the Massachusetts Board of
Elementary and Secondary Education is to
strengthen the Commonwealth's public education
system so that every student is prepared to succeed
in postsecondary education, compete in the global
economy, and understand the rights and
responsibilities of American citizens, and in so
doing, to close all proficiency gaps.

8. Getting Permission To Go 1:1
Why do we need to do this?
"To promote student learning through the use of
mobile learning devices and social media in
instruction that further prepares students to be
active, constructive participants in the highly
connected world in which they already live and will
soon work..”
From NASSP Position Statement on Using Mobile and Social Technologies in
school 2011

9. Getting Permission To Go 1:1
Why do we need to do this?
"Just as media and technology are integrated in
school and life in the twenty-first century, skills
related to media use (both critical analysis and
production of media) are integrated throughout the
standards.."
From Common Core State Standards 2011

10. Getting Permission To Go 1:1
Why do we need to do this?
"Students in the 21st century should have experience
with and develop skills around technological tools
used in the classroom and the world around them.
Through this they will learn about technology and
learn through technology. In addition, they must be
able to select the most appropriate tools to address
particular needs."
From NCTE's Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment 2007

11. Key Steps
Budgeting and long term sustainability
• How do we pay for this?
• When do we buy new devices?

12. Key Steps
Professional Development
• For Staff
• For Parents
• For Students

13. Preparing Staff

14. Preparing Staff
Sustained Staff Development
49 21%
Student
Hours/Year
Point Gain
5-14 0%
Student
Hours/Year
Point Gain
National Staff Development Council, February, 2009

15. Preparing
Students and Parents
• Parent Technology Nights
• Student Technology Integration Team

16. “At our most ambitious, we hoped to change
the one-directional model of attention that
has formed the twentieth-century
classroom.”
Davidson, Cathy N. (2011-08-18). Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the
Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Kindle Locations 1275-1276).VIKING ADULT. Kindle Edition.

17. Useful Links
The School That Launched 1,000 iPads (A
Google Doc)
The School That Launched 1,000 iPads e-Pub
Google Doc With Many Useful Links and FAQ's
Burlington Public Schools Tech Site

18. Contact Information
Patrick Larkin
Blog - patrickmlarkin.com
Twitter - @bhsprincipal
Cell - 339 234-1673
e-mail - larkin@bpsk12.org
Andrew Marcinek
Blog - andrewmarcinek.com
Twitter - @andycinek
email: amarcinek@bpsk12.org