This document discusses going one-to-one with mobile devices in the classroom. It introduces the author as an advisor who helped implement a one-to-one iPad program. It notes that while mobile computing in classrooms has been discussed for years, the idea makes more sense now as students are digital natives. Going one-to-one involves untethering the classroom from its physical space and embracing blended learning that combines physical and virtual elements to create personalized learning environments.

1. Going One-to-One creating a cloud classroom

2. About me
• I’m the Faculty Advisor of
Instructional Technology at
Xaverian High School, one of
the first Apple 1:1 schools in
the United States.
• My book Going One-to-One:
iPads and Mobile Computing
in the Classroom will be
released in October.
• I teach at the college level as
well and utilize a 1:1 laptop
environment with my students
there.

3. Why go one-to-one?

4. Our story begins
in Brooklyn, NY...
...but not in skinny
jeans, hipster
Brooklyn.

5. This is Tony
Manero’s
Brooklyn.

6. The iPad 1:1
movement
started in
Greenock,
Scotland.
It spread quickly, and ed tech
evangelists like Fraser Speirs
helped get the word out.

7. Speirs spoke at our school and we came away proud to be
trying something different and empowered by the
possibilities.

8. Is this really just a “PowerPoint projector?” Maybe
the classroom shouldn’t be the place students read
stories.

9. Wired classrooms That doesn’t mean we all
and mobile understood it right away.
computing aren’t
new ideas.

10. 1:1 classrooms have been in the works for years
Apple developed and deployed several versions of its Classroom of Tomorrow in 1985.
About ten years later, Microsoft Launched its Anytime, Anywhere Learning Initiative.

11. But these ideas make more sense today, since today’s students are digital natives.

12. Embrace blended
learning and
flipped
classrooms.
“Blended learning” is the term
used to describe combining
physical and virtual classroom
elements to create a
personalized learning
environment for your students.

13. Flipped classrooms and blended learning embrace the idea that
lesson content can be delivered at home so that homework may be
completed in class, with a teacher there to facilitate.

14. Untether the classroom from its physical
space.

15. Changing the
Classroom

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17. Khan is great, but you might
be better.

18. Portfoli
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Wiki
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The teacher becomes a facilitator of knowledge.

19. Going Paperless...
...has its advantages.

20. Going 1:1 involves creating a student
environment that mirrors and in some ways
improves upon the classroom.