ipad 1:1 Pilot Program

Are You an old school or a bold

School?

Bold schools are steeped in cultures where everyone, both educators and students, are seen as learners first. To be fully able to seize the opportunities that access provides, the adults need to be engaged in the learning process as much if not more than the kids in our classrooms. Bold schools are innovating and inventing in the classroom and curriculum, poking the box of traditional education in ways that make sense for kids.- Are You an Old School or a Bold School (Richardson)

Right now, we need bold schools, not old schools. By that, I mean we need schools to take serious steps to not only reinvent themselves, but to step out and advocate for a new, more meaningful definition of what learning means for our students, one that goes beyond simply “higher student achievement” or “increased student performance.”-Are You an Old School or a Bold School (Richardson)

Three Realities Facing Schools

•Reality #1- Web has fundamentally undermined the main premise upon which our schools and systems were built

• Reality #2- Society, specifically the two-income family, would be hard-pressed to adjust to millions of school-aged kids staying home to take courses online

• Reality #3- Individualized, online learning environments will do a better job of delivering test-passing content and skills to our students than classrooms will. What is our value in light of the challenges and opportunities that the Web now brings to education?”

NMC Horizon REport• The abundance of

resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators in sense-making, coaching, and credentialing.

• The world of work is increasingly collaborative, giving rise to reflection about the way student projects are structured

What Does this Mean?

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ACU Connected: Abilene Christian University is on the forefront of

experimentation with technology in their college classrooms. Through the ACU

Connected program, they have conducted several studies on the iPad. Among their results: students who annotate text on the

iPad score 25% higher on questions involving transferring information. Researchers have

also learned using an iPad raises student satisfaction levels because of the ease of and

use of varied features

Motion Math in Class: An assistant professor of education at USC’s

Rossier School oversaw this study looking at whether having students play a learning game to teach them

fractions increased their knowledge. Just five days of playing Motion Math

for 20 minutes each day raised fifth graders’ fractions test scores 15%, and also raised their "liking" of fractions

by 10%

Why The iPad?

HMH Fuse Algebra 1: In September 2010, textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt packaged its Algebra 1 book as an iPad app called HMH Fuse

Algebra 1. The company donated 400 iPads loaded with the app to schools in four California school

districts. After a full school year of study, the results showed nearly 20% more iPad users than non-iPad

users scored "proficient" or better on the district algebra exam.

Beyond Textbooks: In late 2010, Virginia’s education department began an experimental

program of giving iPads to social studies students in grades four, seven, and nine to test its viability as a learning tool. They found that

the technology increased both student independence and collaboration, and allowed

teachers to be more facilitators than fact-deliverers.

Why The iPad?

Why The iPad?

The ‘agile’ space now created by the introduction of the iPad, although tablet style devices have been around a while, has yet to be proven as educationally useful; indeed some are not convinced that there is any need for another ‘space’ in learning technology. However, many of us disagree with this view and

believe products such as the iPad will be central to how many people learn in the coming years. This agile space has many of the attributes associated with handheld and portable devices whilst also creating new and innovative ways of using technology. It adds a level of flexibility which has been absent until now. For example, whilst the iPad won’t exactly fit in most pockets, it is very easily carried from one place to

another and it won’t take a large heavy laptop trolley to trundle 15-20 iPads from one classroom to another in a school setting. Conversely, it offers the screen size of a small laptop/netbook which is

significantly larger than a handheld device, whilst avoiding the traditional form factor of a hinged-screen laptop.

Why the iPad?

Noah Rahman has moderate Cerebral Palsy affecting his communication, cognition and upper and lower body movement. When he turned two, his language, cognitive ability and fine motor skills were

diagnosed by a developmental specialist as being at least 12 months behind. Then Noah got an iPad.Four months later, his language and cognition were on par with his age level. His fine motor skills had

made significant leaps.- Mashable