This document provides an overview and agenda for the 2nd annual Institute on Leading Innovation: Implementing Effective 1:1 Computing Programs. The institute will bring together 21 teams from North Carolina schools and districts to share best practices for 1:1 computing programs. Participants will engage in presentations, hands-on experiences, team planning time, and networking activities focused on creating future-ready learning environments and preparing students. The goals are to help schools figure out how to implement effective 1:1 computing programs and create the next generation of schools.

1. WELCOME
to the 2nd annual
Institute on Leading Innovation:
Implementing Effective 1:1 Computing Programs
Glenn Kleiman
Executive Director
Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
NC State University College of Education

2. Why are we here?
• To work together to figure out how to help
create the next generation of schools

3. North Carolina 1:1 Learning
Technology Initiative
• A strategic approach to creating future-ready schools
• Goals of
– Engagement
– Equity
– Economic development
• Creating a new learning ecology in our schools
• To prepare future-ready students, we must provide
future-ready environments, tools, learning processes
and content

4. In the world of our students
• All information is instantly available
• Distance and time do not matter
• Communication via multiple means is free, easy, and instant
• Multimedia interactive entertainment is omnipresent
• Powerful tools for creative work are taken for granted
• Machines have “intelligence”
• Change is constant and rapid
• Options are abundant
• Diversity is assumed
• Everything is interactive and collaborative
• They have control and autonomy

5. Eyes on your own work
“Keep your eyes on your own
screen.”

6. “Oh, we finished the
basic subtraction.
Now we’re designing
a series of interrelated
transformational
geometric
comparisons.”

7. Who is here?
• 21 teams from NC schools and districts
• Staff from Friday Institute, NCDPI, New
Schools Project, NCVPS, LEARN NC, MCNC,
NC State Faculty and Graduate Students,
Cary Academy, New Tech Foundation,
Technology companies, Greene County,
NCLTI 1-1 Pilot Schools,

8. NC 1:1 LTI Schools

9. Who is here? (2)
• Teachers (about 25%)
• Instructional technology leaders (about 17%)
• Technology directors, network engineers, etc (15%)
• Principals (22%)
• Superintendents (6%)
• Instructional coaches, Special Ed specialists, grant
writers, distance education coordinators and others
• And one self-described “nice guy”

10. Who is here? (3)
• From 1 to 21+ years in K-12 education
• 2000+ years in total
• From 0 to 5+ years with 1:1 programs
• From novice to advance on all users of
technology in our survey

11. What do we hope to learn and do?

12. Where are we?
• Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
• Located on NC State University’s Centennial Campus
• Opened in November, 2007
• Our Building of Ideas has spaces and state-of-the art
technology for:
– conducting research
– teaching both face-to-face and online
– developing multi-media educational resources
– working collaboratively
– convening meetings related to our mission

13. What’s in the binder?

14. What will we be doing?
• Presentations and panels
• Hands-on experiences
• Administrative, Classroom, and Technology
Directors special sessions
• Team time with facilitators
• Demonstration poster-type sessions
• Informal networking, with food
• Optional book club-Grown-up Digital
• Cross-team sharing

15. What are the expectations?
• 150 teachers, 150 learners
• Engage, explore, ask, share, connect
• Seek what you need to know
• Help others find what they need to know
• Have team members attend different break-
out sessions
• Help us stay on schedule
• Complete evaluation forms

16. A Pop Quiz
Fill-in the Blank Quotes about
___ Century Skills
(Extra credit for adding who and when)

17. Quote #1
There is no reason anyone would want a
_______ in their home.

18. Quote #1
There is no reason anyone would want a
computer in their home. (Ken Olson,
president, chairman and founder of Digital
Equipment Corporation, 1977.)

19. Quote #2
This ________ has too many shortcomings to
be seriously considered as a means of
communication.

20. Quote #2
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings
to be seriously considered as a means of
communication. (Western Union internal
memo, 1876)

21. Quote #3
I believe that the ______ is destined to
revolutionize our educational system and that
in a few years it will supplant largely, if not
entirely, the use of textbooks.

22. Quote #3
I believe that the motion picture is destined to
revolutionize our educational system and that
in a few years it will supplant largely, if not
entirely, the use of textbooks. (Thomas A.
Edison, 1922)

23. Quote #4
[If you allow the use of _______,] … to your
students you give an appearance of wisdom,
not the reality of it... They will appear to know
much when for the most part they know
nothing.

24. Quote #4
[Writing] will produce forgetfulness in the
souls of those who have learned it, through
lack of practice at using their memory... To
your students you give an appearance of
wisdom, not the reality of it... They will appear
to know much when for the most part they
know nothing... (Socrates in The Phaedrus)

25. This Institute is made possible by
generous support from:
• BB&T: David Weaver, Regional President
• The Golden LEAF Foundation, Mark Sorrells,
Senior Vice President