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- 1. Mobile Learning Using The iPod Touch – In Hindsight A Panel Discussion @GlobalEd Conference Suren Ramasubbu Phil Hardin CEO Exec Director of Education Mobicip.comHuffPost Technology Blogger Jennifer Wivagg Technology Susan Wells Coordinator Principal
- 2. Agenda • Overview • Initiation • Budget • Leadership support & approval • Deployment challenges • Acceptable use, security, device management • Loss / damage • Student tasks and projects • Impact on student achievement
- 3. Jump Links • Title • Agenda • Comal • Rowan Salisbury • Culbreth • Appendix
- 5. Individualized Instruction and Learning Using The iPod Touch How ELL Students Use the iPod touch as a Tool to Help with English Language Acquisition A Joint Presentation By Jennifer Wivagg Jose Salazar
- 6. • Located between Austin and San Antonio • 600 Square Miles • 17,000 students PreK-12
- 7. ELL Student Trends at CISD April 2009 April 2009 April 2009 April 2009 Reading, Grade April 2009 March 2009 April 2009 April 2009 Mathematics, Mathematics, Mathematics, 6 Reading, Grade 7 Writing, Grade 7 Science, Grade 8 Reading, Grade 8 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Canyon Middle School 90.26% 79.85% 85.17% 85.66% 95.40% 85.30% 88.52% 66.67% Limited English 40% 50% 50% 62.50% 87.50% 66.67% 50% 100% Church Hill Middle School 94.96% 91.86% 82.68% 90.91% 94.25% 88.33% 88.89% 62.50% Limited English 80% 100% 40% 20% 57.14% 60% 60% 50% Mountain Valley Middle School 94.14% 81.33% 77.06% 85.71% 92.45% 77.14% 83.41% 52.63% Limited English 80% 40% - - - 50% 25% 0% Smithson Valley Middle School 99.23% 93.10% 93.33% 95.56% 97.73% 93.43% 92.73% 66.67% Limited English 100% 75% 100% 50% 100% 0% 33.33% 50% Spring Branch Middle School 98.80% 86.80% 90.15% 94.70% 99.19% 88.89% 90.62% 100% Limited English 50% 100% - - - 0% 0% - • Consistently score lower on standardized tests. • Often have few learning resources at home. • Limited exposure to academic English outside of school.
- 8. ELL Program Goals • Increase English language acquisition and fluency • Provide students with anywhere/anytime learning • Improve standardized test scores
- 9. Proposed Solution • Provide all ELL middle school students with a mobile device with the following access: • Audio Textbook in English • English Music and Videos • Internet Access • Voice Recording Capability • Learning Tools such as translators, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. • Educational Games • Students will be able to take home the mobile device.
- 10. 32GB Third Generation iPod Touch 32GB Fourth Generation iPod Touch
- 11. Implementation • Parent Meeting (Required) – Outline program guidelines – Permission slip – Student Responsibility – Overview of the device • Teacher Training – Individual/Group – In-class with students – Ongoing
- 12. Activities and Outcomes Voice Recordings • Students use Voice Memos and read or respond to prompts. • Helps improve fluency and comprehension. •Provides instant feedback •Helps teachers with progress monitoring.
- 13. Activities and Outcomes Research/Reference Tools Provides • Dictionary • Instant access to • Thesaurus information • Internet through Mobicip • Student-centered • Glossaries • Multiple modalities (text, • Maps images, sounds)
- 14. Activities and Outcomes Audiobooks • Textbooks and novels are available to students in an audio format. • ELL students can listen as they read. • Helps with English pronunciation and comprehension. • Provides textbook support at home.
- 15. Activities and Outcomes Apps • Educational and Games reinforce concepts. • Game apps used as rewards for meeting educational goals. • Individualized instruction “I like Word Warp because they give you letters and you discover words with the letters they give you.” -Karina, Grade 6
- 16. Activities and Outcomes Videos • Teachers download videos that correspond to topics in their core classes. • Provides student with additional instruction in a different format.
- 17. Activities and Outcomes Creating Media • Audio and Video Podcasts • Students take pictures of words they need to identify. • Students create an video oral history of their live. (Interview with family members)
- 18. Sample Activity-Comic Touch •The teacher assigns a list of vocabulary words to the students. •The students first must find a picture on the Internet (Mobicip) that represents the vocabulary word in some way. •The student then uses the application, Comic Touch, to create a comic panel that represents their assigned vocabulary words.
- 19. iMentor Program Mentoring program with high school students and middle school ELL students Students use video downloaded on the iPods to facilitate discussion.
- 21. Challenges • Time • Management • Loss/theft of devices • Lack of curriculum integrating the iPod touch • Lack of framework • Few educational reviewed applications • Training teachers
- 23. Contact Information Jennifer Wivagg, instructional media specialist jennifer.wivagg@comalisd.org Jose Salazar, bilingual/ESL coordinator jose.salazar@comalisd.org
- 25. The Mobile Learning Environment Phil Hardin Executive Director of Technology Rowan-Salisbury School System Salisbury, NC hardinpj@rss.k12.nc.us
- 26. North Rowan High iPod Project Background 710 Students 0.8% American Indian 2.5% Asian 3.2% Multiracial 4.6% Hispanic 42.1% White 46.6% African American 63% Free/Reduced Lunch
- 27. North Rowan High iPod Project Background 8th grade End-of-Grade test scores for the current NRH 9th graders: • 36.4% were at or above Level III in reading • 39.42% were at or above Level III in math • 26.2% were at or above Level III in reading and math
- 28. North Rowan High iPod Project • Dropout Rates & Engagement: Most students report that dropping out of High School is a gradual process of disengagement that results in the lack of connection to school. Student engagement is one of the areas addressed by the NRH project.
- 29. North Rowan High iPod Project Mobile Learning Opportunities: 1. Encourage “anywhere, anytime” learning 2. Reach underserved children 3. Improve 21st-century social interactions 4. Fit with learning environments 5. Enable a personalized learning experience Pockets of Potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children’s Learning, January 2009
- 30. North Rowan High iPod Project The Beginning: 2008-2009 •Freshman Academy • 200 ninth grade students • 10 core subject area teachers • 4 resource teachers • Principal & Assistant Principal
- 31. North Rowan High iPod Project 2009-2010 School Year: Expanded to 10th grade - August 2009 Expanded to 11th & 12th grades - February 2010
- 32. North Rowan High iPod Project
- 33. North Rowan High iPod Project Wireless Internet Equipped Buses
- 34. North Rowan High iPod Project
- 35. North Rowan High iPod Project Benefits: • Engaged Students • Students Excited about Learning • Students Use Educational iPod Applications Outside of Class • Teachers Excited about their Teaching • Decrease in Discipline • Increase in Attendance Rate for 9th Graders
- 36. Expansion Overton Elementary: Spring 2010 iPod touch devices and iPod carts provided to: • 70 fifth grade students • 5 fifth grade teachers • School administrators
- 37. Expansion North Rowan Middle: Fall 2010 iPod touch devices and MacBook carts will be provided to: • 205 eighth grade students • 8 core subject area teachers • School administrators This is a feeder school for North Rowan High
- 38. Expansion Knox Middle: Fall 2010 iPod touch devices and MacBook carts will be provided to: • 252 sixth grade students • 9 core subject area teachers • School administrators Overton Elementary is a feeder school for Knox Middle
- 39. Expansion Thirty-eight 21st Century Model Classrooms iPod touch devices, iPod carts, and MacBook carts provided to: • Thirty-eight 21st century model classrooms • Model classroom teachers selected by an application process
- 40. Expansion Spring 2011 iPod touch devices and MacBook carts will be provided to: • 450 seventh grade students • 80 fourth grade students • 20 core subject area teachers
- 41. Funding & Partnerships Funding: Local, State, & Federal Funds Grant Funds • The Blanche & Julian Robertson Family Foundation • Golden LEAF Foundation Working Partnerships: Apple, Inc. Mobicip
- 42. 3 Years of iPod 1:1
- 43. Staff collaboration-- Examining our own bricks and mortar
- 45. Changing teaching and learning- customized, personalized, individualized
- 46. Moving to mobile, universal deployment
- 47. iPod touch at hand- every student, every day
- 48. Across conten Science Class areas Social Studies Class ESL Class
- 49. Managing the technical end
- 50. Mobicip- internet filtering for the iPod touch
- 51. “It’s changing everything.” “Information no longer belongs to just a handful of kids, or just to me.” - Culbreth teacher
- 52. Appendix
- 53. Fully Managed 1:1 Learning Platform ✓Network ✓Classroom Equipment ✓CIPA Filter - Mobicip ✓Configuration &Deployment ✓Device Management & Syncing
- 54. CIPA-Compliance Safe Browser Web Monitor App www.mobicip.com
- 55. CIPA-Compliance • Replacement for Safari Mobile • Same rich UI, look and feel – Bookmarks – Multiple Tabs – Pinch & Zoom – Landscape Mode – Send Email – URL History / Suggestions – Cookies – Save Images
- 56. CIPA-Compliance • Account Configuration • Apply Global Filtering Level – Elem, Middle, High School • Allow/Block Categories • Allow/Block Websites • Add/remove Devices • Manage Users • Internet Activity Reports • Allowed Websites • Blocked Websites • Receive Email Reports
- 57. References Comal ISD Mobile Learning Project http://www.comalisd.org/mobile_learning Grey Culbreth YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/greyculbreth North Rowan High School iPod Project http://www.rss.k12.nc.us/21stCentury/ipodMain.html Mobicip.com http://www.mobicip.com
Editor's Notes
- Link Permission slip to PDF fileLink Parent Meeting to PPT from Parent Meeting