2. Outline
• What? - Initiative Outline
• Why?
• How? - are the devices used
• Safety
• Questions
3. What?
• Y3-8 students to have their own eee Asus
that can be used at School and taken
home
• Imaged with Linux
• Able to access the School wireless
• Portal to the Web - access to google aps,
knowledge net, mathletics etc
10. Why?- An ever device? world
Why?- one changing
• It is currently the best device in terms of durability and
cost.
• When problems occur our teachers are dealing with one
device not multiple devices.
• When teaching students how to do specific things on their
device they are giving the same set of instructions.
• The IT cost and ease for imaging the devices and doing the
initial setup is straight forward
• Equity - it is an affordable device for all.
• It has a keyboard and primary age students need to learn
correct keyboarding skills in digital times.
11. What is distinctive now is the rate and
scale of change.
The two great driving forces are
technological innovation
and population growth.
transforming the
Together they are
way we live and work; they are putting a
vast strain on the Earth’s natural resources
and changing the nature of politics and
culture.
Sir Ken Robinson, 2011
12. What?
How?
• Google docs
• Gmail - email
• Knowledge Net Reflections
• Mathletics
• blogging
14. Context: Wetlands Apply Understanding
Wetlands website was an accumulation of
various learning artifacts
Concept: Sustainability Pamphlets
Movies - virtual tour
Build Knowledge Cartoons
Seek Out: Experts Instructions
Find Out: Virtual field Trip, Factual Reports
visited local wetlands
Visual - layout, presentation, multimodal
Reading: ARC pamphlets,
books, websites, articles
Writing: What makes a
good report
Oral: Questioning,
collaborating
Making Meaning
Compared wetlands - north and south, species
Compared reports
Summarised information for publication using
google docs
15. Context: Wetlands Apply Understanding
Wetlands website was an accumulation of
various learning artifacts
Concept: Sustainability Pamphlets
Movies - virtual tour
Build Knowledge Cartoons
Seek Out: Experts Instructions
Find Out: Virtual field Trip, Factual Reports
visited local wetlands
Visual - layout, presentation, multimodal
Reading: ARC pamphlets,
books, websites, articles
Writing: What makes a
good report
Oral: Questioning,
collaborating
Making Meaning
Compared wetlands - north and south, species
Compared reports
Summarised information for publication using
google docs
16. Context: Wetlands Apply Understanding
Wetlands website was an accumulation of
various learning artifacts
Concept: Sustainability Pamphlets
Movies - virtual tour
Build Knowledge Cartoons
Seek Out: Experts Instructions
Find Out: Virtual field Trip, Factual Reports
visited local wetlands
Visual - layout, presentation, multimodal
Reading: ARC pamphlets,
books, websites, articles
Writing: What makes a
good report
Oral: Questioning,
collaborating
Making Meaning
Compared wetlands - north and south, species
Compared reports
Summarised information for publication using
google docs
17. Context: Wetlands Apply Understanding
Wetlands website was an accumulation of
various learning artifacts
Concept: Sustainability Pamphlets
Movies - virtual tour
Build Knowledge Cartoons
Seek Out: Experts Instructions
Find Out: Virtual field Trip, Factual Reports
visited local wetlands
Visual - layout, presentation, multimodal
Reading: ARC pamphlets,
books, websites, articles
Writing: What makes a
good report
Oral: Questioning,
collaborating
Making Meaning
Compared wetlands - north and south, species
Compared reports
Summarised information for publication using
google docs
Influential reading and you tube clips and experts were explored and soaked up.\nDan Pink, Guy Claxton, Did you know predictions, The Knowledge Wave\nKen Robinson, Theory of everything, Steven Covey\n
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Sarah - This website is an accumulation of many literacy examples about our local wetlands. The children were learning about sustainability through Science and decided a website was the best way to share their learning more widely. It was crated by year 2-4 learners.\n
