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Preparing For Your One-to-One Program

Preparing For Your One-to-One Program. Topics. Why One-to-One Computing? Practical Pedagogical Designing the Assessment Planning the Program http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U. Why One-to-One Computing?.

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Preparing For Your One-to-One Program

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  1. Preparing For YourOne-to-One Program

  2. Topics • Why One-to-One Computing? • Practical • Pedagogical • Designing the Assessment • Planning the Program • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

  3. Why One-to-One Computing? • A collaborative group of corporate, research and education leaders created a list of basic and applied skills then surveyed employers to assess the readiness of our workforce as they leave U.S. schools. We are not ready

  4. Excellence Information Technology Application . . . 46.3% Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 28.3 Critical Thinking/Problem Solving . . .... . . 27.6 English Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 26.2 Lifelong Learning/Self Direction . . . ..... . . 25.9 Reading Comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.9 Oral Communications . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 24.8 Teamwork/Collaboration . . . . . . ... . . . . . 24.6 Creativity/Innovation . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . 21.5 Workplace Readiness Crisis • Deficiency • Written Communications . . . . . . . . . . 27.8% • Writing in English . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . 26.2 • Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.8 Four Year College Graduates Source: Are They Really Ready To Work? Conference Board, 2006

  5. Excellence Information Technology Application . . . 25.7% Workplace Readiness Crisis • Deficiency • Written Communications . . . . .. . . . . . . 47.3% • Writing in English . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 46.4 • Lifelong Learning/Self Direction . . .... . . . 27.9 • Creativity/Innovation . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . 27.6 • Critical Thinking/Problem Solving . . ... . . 22.8 • Oral Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.3 • Ethics/Social Responsibility . . . . . . .. . . . 21.0 Two Year College/Technical School Graduates Source: Are They Really Ready To Work? Conference Board, 2006

  6. Excellence No skills are on the Excellence List for new entrants with a high school diploma. Workplace Readiness Crisis • Deficiency • Written Communications . . . . .. . . . . . . 80.9% • Professionalism/Work Ethic . . . . . .. . . . . 70.3 • Critical Thinking/Problem Solving . .. . . . . 69.6 • Oral Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.7 • Ethics/Social Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . 44.1 • Reading Comprehension . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.4 • Teamwork/Collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.6 • Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.9 • Information Technology Application . . . . 21.5 • English Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . .21.0 High School Graduates Source: Are They Really Ready To Work? Conference Board, 2006

  7. 21st Century Skills • Global Awareness • Civic Engagement • Financial, Economic, and Business Literacy • Learning Skills • Information and Communication Technology Literacy Source: Assessment of 21st Century Skills, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2005

  8. 1-to-1 Computing as a Partial Strategy • In 2003, 4% of school districts were starting 1:1 initiatives. In 2006 24% of school districts were in the process of transitioning to 1:1 initiatives • Where tracked, 88% showed positive academic results • Most superintendents and 67% of technology directors believe TCO is “important” or “very important” Source: America's Digital Schools 2006, The Greaves Group, 2006

  9. Why One-to-One Computing? • Because it furthers your mission • Does your school have a mission statement? • Do people know what it is? • Assess yourself based on your mission • Assess your teachers based on your mission • Base your need for one-to-one program on all or part of your mission statement • All of this helps your program attain quicker ubiquity and depersonalizes the pressures of change

  10. Designing the Assessment • Start at the “end” • What do you want your program to look like? • Where, when, how will the laptop be used? • What does a classroom look like? • What is typical teacher behavior? • What is typical student behavior? • What is typical administrator behavior? • How will you assess? • Benchmarks and Longitudinal Trend indicators

  11. Planning the Program • The Decision Process • Program Design • Infrastructure (Connectivity, Servers, Storage, Backup, Classroom Devices, Electrical, and Technical Support) • Curricular Support • Communication • Policies • Image Design and Update • One-to-One Rollout, and • Assessment of Your One-to-One Program

  12. Decision Process • Who is involved in the research and recommending body? • Who is involved in the decision making body • Total cost of Ownership Analysis • Gartner K-12 TCO tool • Constituent support

  13. Program Design • Laptops? Tablets? • Windows? Mac? Linux? • Lenovo? The other guys? • How will you roll them out? • Lease or buy? • Tuition? Fee? Off-sets? • Financial Aid? • Lots of choices to make • This is only PART of the process

  14. Infrastructure • Wireless • Login servers • Anti-virus • E-mail • Printing • Storage • Classroom Devices • Help desk • Break/Fix • More to come on this!

  15. Curricular Support • Lower Anxiety • Tech Skills Development • Technology Integration Development • Problem/project based learning training • Share successes AND failures • Time! • Consider your schedule • Consider meeting times for teachers

  16. Communication • Communicate decision and rationale • Communicate on-going progress • Provide feedback channels • Develop communication pieces to help new people join your technologically heightened community

  17. Policies • Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to cover laptop going home • AUP to cover desktops and general use computers • Technology in place to enforce your policies • Is policy reflective of your mission statement • Design policies to be positively stated, when possible • Be sure to cover liabilities

  18. Image Design and Update • System for gathering software needs • Consider the tools to: • Design the image • Deploy the image • Update the computers post imaging • Customize each image after deployment • Manage the computers after deployment

  19. Roll-out • Set the tone for your program • Involve all the constituents • Students • Teachers • Parents • Administrators • Develop critical skills • Cover documentation and self-help strategies

  20. On-going Assessment • We've come full circle! • What is the baseline? • What are the goals? • What are the trends? • What changes do we need to make in our assessment parameters? • How do we communicate our findings?

  21. Learn More • Visit Whitfield's Linux Laptop Blog • http://linuxlaptops.blogspot.com • Contact Educational Collaborators • http://www.educollaborators.com • Take the free online one-to-one readiness assessment

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