trialing ipads in education

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Trialing iPads in EducationThree Case Studies of iPad use in the

Education Process


Trialing iPads in EducationEvan Hughes, Trinity Grammar School


Trinity Grammar School in Brief

3 Sydney Campuses Lewisham – PK-2

Strathfield – PK-6

Summer Hill – 3-6 & 7-12

~2000 students (all boys) & ~500 staff

~1600 devices (including 360 iPads, 560 notebooks, 90 Mac)

Campus WLAN (Aruba) on Summer Hill site

Microsoft Active Directory, Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2010, VMWare


iPad Project Initiation

Head Master Decision – August 2010

Implementation/Deployment – October 2010

Year 12 privilege (and their teachers)

360 x 32GB iPad Wi-Fi only 200 students

110 staff

50 shared (Library)


iPad Project Objectives

Communication – email

Administration – timetable and School calendar

Record book (Diary and School information) and textbook replacement – PDF files, eBooks, iPub

Teaching tool – Apps to support curriculum delivery along with Internet and Intranet access


Preparation

Executive Support – already highest level

Management – Looked at available tools to treat iPads like notebooks, but it is a consumer device

Network – WLAN access, IP addressing, Proxy access and content filtering

Functionality – School email for students, Intranet content, eTextbooks

Staff – course material conversion / familiarity

Gift cards for Apps


Deployment

‘out of the box’ experience to engender ownership

Too many for IT to process in given timeframe

Staff (up to 25 in each session) – issued first in lock-step sessions following PowerPoint – too slow, some rushed ahead and ‘bricked’ the device

Students (40-50 in each session) – personalised mail-merge document with individual settings – worked at own pace, surprising amount of cooperation and peer assistance between all students

Library – management issue


Deployment Process

1. Out of the box – break the plastic seal2. Activate through iTunes3. Join temporary local wireless network4. Install certificate for School WLAN5. Join School WLAN6. Setup email7. Setup iTunes store account using $50 gift card8. AppleCare warranty registration9. Application (App) purchasing process10.Putting the case on


Results & Issues

Achieving Outcomes Communication

Administration

Teaching tool

Ownership

Issues Apps locked to student’s iTunes account

Longer term costs of replacing devices

Staff adoption – working on a regular iPad PD programme with external presenters


Looking Forward

Expand to include Year 11

Tools for configuration management, shared device management, removal of School settings on device exit

Volume Purchase Plan - App issuing after bulk purchase

Looking at a shared model for Primary classes and the Library

Students and Staff bringing their own devices


Sources of Support & Advice

Victorian iPad Trial www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au

Apple – technical advice, PD for teaching staff

Computers Now – stock, gift cards

Accucom – Aruba WLAN changes

Blue Reef – Sonar clientless filtering

http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/


Evan Hughes, Director of IT, Trinity Grammar [email protected]


St Aloysius College - Yr 10 - 1 to 1 deployment of IPADS

Brett Houghton


St Aloysius College

Independent Catholic boys school in Milsons Points

1180 Students from 3 thru 12

iPads issued to each year 10 student (154)

The Journey Trolleys – Laptops

Netbooks – 1 to 1

iPads (154 Students 40 staff - 64gig wifi)


iPads - Why ICT Committee decision

Research device in the classroom

Access to online resources

Meeting the need of increase digital text

Offer basic note taking

Fast turn on

Long battery life

What they did not want Laptop / Netbook / Notebook

Did not want to fully replace writing in class


Staff Trial of 20 Units Identified the following:

Proxy Authentication does not work under our existing setup

Changes to our wireless was required to enable authentication.

We use a 2 part authentication to our wireless

Domain registered workstations

Domain Users

This model would not work for iPads

Limited traditional file access (Win2k8 Servers)

We knew we would need AppleID accounts for each students


Setup / Configuration process Wireless Configuration

Filtering / Proxy

Device Setup

Training and education


Wireless

Separate SSID

Default Gateway -> Sonar

Security 3 Part authentication

MAC Address at Wireless Controller

Device (Certificate, issues by controller)

AD Username / Password (IAS Authentication)


Proxy / Filtering I choose to implement a transparent proxy for this project.

The proxy server (Sonar) is in line (transparent) to the users via the default gateway

• Port 80 traffic is redirected to 8080• Users authenticate at the first port

80 request sent from the safari app on device.

• This session lasts for 6 hours.• Once authenticated all Apps can

access the web and is logged• We use an option the Sonar

Appliance offers called “AD Pass-through Authentication”

• We see issues with SSL traffic with this method. But we are working with Bluereef on this.


Device Setup Apple ID’s created – https://appleid.apple.com

iPhone configuration utility 2 Profiles

1. Device setup

2. Email config / Web clips

Device registration

Case Incase

http://www.goincase.com/products/detail/convertible-book-jacket-cl57512r

Handout to kids

http://appleid.apple.com/





Apps, Apps, Apps and more Apps

It’s a mine field out there

Have a budget

I am critical of a lot of apps, I see many as 1 time learning applications.

I tried to keep it simple, keep focused on the goals, eg: being research and access.

Rubric: I was directed to this rubric / matrix towards the end of last year.

As we are now starting to get more request from HOD’s for app I aim to use as a guide to decision making.


Purchased Apps

APPS Started the year with 1 purchased app to each student

(QuickOffice)

Offered a list of free apps we asked them to download, links provided on intranet for student to download.

Since mid term 1 we have purchased a number of language apps for the languages department. These include

ShinKanji

Jflash

Freewriter


Free Apps to start the year (See last slide for links)


App Distribution – iTunes Store We gifted 154 students the purchased app.

Managed to gift on average 30 students in a single purchase. (Depends on the combined length of the list of email address) Comma separated

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Itunes store supplies information on who has redeemed their gift or not.

mailto:[email protected]




Training Student very easy

Staff very hard

For students we ran an information session for the whole year group.

For staff we have run sessions in groups but we have now moved to 1 to 1 training sessions of about 1 hour. We cover Device usage

Itunes use

App use

Email

App purchase policy


Management – May 2011

Casper MDM http://www.jamfsoftware.com/solutions/mobile-device-

management/

IOS Developer – Enterprise Program Organise in advanced

Took St Aloysius College 3 months to get this approved with Apple

Your principal needs to be involved in this process

$299


The next 3 months

Finalise Casper MDM implementation

Printing

Extending Google Apps integration

App development

ePub development – text and internal resources


Observations Low damage rates.

Nil so far

1 Theft

2 units have been reported faulty (repaired under warranty)

Once a user is setup ie: AppleID login working and can get apps

On wireless

Browsing web

We see very few reported issues.


Import Links Vic iPad Trial


Casper MDM Management

http://www.jamfsoftware.com/solutions/mobile-device-management/

iOS Developer Enterprise Program

https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action

Filtering

www.bluereef.com.au

Wireless

http://www.arubanetworks.com/

Some Blogs I have followed thru this process http://speirs.org/

Some News / Media Links http://mashable.com/2011/05/16/tablets-education/

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news41241.html


http://www.jamfsoftware.com/solutions/mobile-device-management/



http://www.bluereef.com.au/

http://www.arubanetworks.com/

http://speirs.org/

http://speirs.org/

http://mashable.com/2011/05/16/tablets-education/

http://mashable.com/2011/05/16/tablets-education/

http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news41241.html


App Links Google Mobile:

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/google-mobile-app/id284815942?mt=8

Find my iPhone

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/find-my-iphone/id376101648?mt=8

Dictionary

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dictionary-com-dictionary/id364740856?mt=8

iBook

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8

Pulse

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pulse-news-reader/id371088673?mt=8

ABC

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/australian-broadcasting-corporation/id376620068?mt=8

Google Earth

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/google-earth/id293622097?mt=8

Discover

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/id384224429?mt=8

iPad Information

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pad-info/id364220353?mt=8

Evernote

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8









Contact DetailsBrett HoughtonIT ManagerSt Aloysius [email protected]


Trialing iPads in EducationRichard Jones, Shore School


About Shore ELC – Year 12, three locations

ELC-2 (236 Boys & Girls)

3-6 (244 Boys)

7-12 (1200 Boys - 201 boarders)

~1350 PCs of which ~220 are shared laptops. Key platforms

Applications: Synergetic, Schoolbox LMS/Portal, AMLIB, Clickview Platforms: HP Servers, EMC & HP Storage, VMWARE, Ubuntu / Redhat Linux,

Windows Server 2003/2008, SQL 2005/2008, Exchange 2003 Network: Cisco LAN / Wifi / IPTEL Clients: Windows XP SP3, Office 2010, IE8.0, Adobe CS4, Altiris, Sophos

Challenges Laptops or Tablets or both? Consolidating sustainable tools & methods and discarding fads. Meeting the needs of all stakeholders in a unified & consistent way.


The Shore Case Study

Only minor demand for tablets; One Senior School maths teacher

Need to support two children with special needs.

PDHPE teachers

Why iPads? Perceived strong potential to enable different teaching / learning

practices.

Usability / Familiarity.

Prepare the ICT team for the inevitable!

Cost effectiveness.


Preliminary Considerations Define what success looks like

Have a clear scope and stick to it

Executive sponsorship / sanction

Wi-Fi coverage and configuration

Policy Ownership of the device and content

How content will be loaded

Who can purchase (and how)

Internet access


Senior School MathsThe teacher wanted to

Teach from anywhere in the room while maintaining engagement. Provide homework feedback at the desk.

Solution iTeleport to remote control the classroom PC / IWB. Numbers to record the homework feedback given to students at their desk.

Outcome Teacher’s expectations exceeded. Students like the immediate feedback.

Issues The number of “remote control” applications we had to try. The expectation of other teachers that the iPad screen would appear on the

IWB. The level of technical aptitude and confidence required by the teacher.


KindergartenThe teachers wanted

The IWB to be visible to a child with a serious visual impairment. To experiment with other learning aids for the same child.

Solution iTeleport to display the classroom PC / IWB screen on the iPad. Various applications to enable the child to participate more actively in

classroom activities.

Outcome The classroom and special needs teachers are happy with the outcome. An excited and eager child!

Issues The special needs teacher wanted freedom to control the content. The child occasionally drifted off task.


Year 3The teachers wanted

A tool to enhance the learning of a child with special needs, such as, poor fine motor skills.

Solution Various applications to enable the child to participate more actively in

classroom activities.

Outcome A work in progress!

Issues The classroom teacher had high expectations of the device while I

considered it to be an experiment! I underestimated the degree of control that the teachers needed. Moving content (such as photos) onto the iPad. Occasional loss of Wi-Fi connectivity


Senior School PDHPEThe teacher wanted

To eliminate the chronicle. More convenient network access (Pool, Gym, Classrooms). To experiment with new teaching and learning aids

Solution Pages and Numbers for taking notes, keeping records (eg Beep Tests),

marking attendance away from the classroom. Safari for access to the LMS/Portal. Various applications to support teaching, including First Aid and Yoga.

Outcome A work in progress, mainly positive feedback.

Issues I underestimated the degree of control that the teachers needed. Data loss. Fewer applications available than expected.


What worked well?

Easy for special needs children to use

The ability for people to explore and try new things

Network mobility

Instant on

Lightweight


What didn’t work well?

Despite communicating that we were trialing the devices this wasn’t always understood.

Managing iTunes and content We started with a central model and then changed to a

federated model (iTunes account per department)

Moving user created content onto the iPad

Information loss Greater responsibility on the end user


Next Steps

Improving our management capability.

Understanding how the iPad “fits in” and whether use should be for a specific purpose or just an option given to departments.

Shared sets for classes.


Richard Jones, ICT Manager, Shore School [email protected]


Questions?

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trialing ipads in education

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school information

removal of school settings

shared device management

intranet content

shared model

configuration management

proxy access

regular ipad pd programme