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Transcript of Small scale computing devices in schools David Perry [email protected].
My interest
• Evaluating sub-laptops in EAZ• Becta WLAN guidance booklet• PFI ‘Connected Learning Project’• Becta ‘Handhelds (PDAs)’ report author
Products
• Sub-laptops / ultra-portables
• Web Pads
with or without wireless networking
• PDAs (with phone?)
Products
Apple emate 1997 Intel ‘Florence’ 2003
NEC MobilePro: keyboard that's nearly the same size as those found on regular notebooks and an 8.1-inch screen, 8hrs battery life, medical market 2003
HP/Thai Gov’t ‘People’s notebook’ £285 (Linux)
BECTa/DfES PDA project
• 150 teachers in• 30 schools with• about 100 devices for pupils
• Palm OS (Palm M130s)• MS-Pocket PC 2002 (Compaq iPAQs)• Some graphic calculators
Twin focuses
• Managing teachers’ workload
• Supporting teaching and learning• Managing teaching• Managing learning
Three categories of user
• School managers – SMTs/ technicians/ caretaker• as per business users
• Teachers • managing functions• direct support to teaching
• Pupils• learning• managing their information/games/etc
School managers
• Up to date - fully synchronised• Access to network resources
anywhere (WLAN)• Instantly available
• Contact lists, diaries and meeting arrangements
• Email anywhere• Attendance info & chasing
School managers
‘I co-ordinate my diary between my Personal Assistant and myself - I have no paper diary anymore. I have all my tasks on the PDA, they are all under control. I can manage tasks better and can give tasks to staff’
Russell Moon, Headteacher Philip Morant School and College,
Colchester
Teachers - managing learning
“I use my PDA regularly…. It has become my first, best reference tool… I would never willingly go without one now; it is my instantly accessible Encyclopaedia, Thesaurus, Periodic Table, Diary, Register/Mark Book, World map and even Star Chart!"
Mike Rutherford, Durham Johnston
Pupils
• If I didn’t have the PDA, I’d probably forget my work
• There is more room to write what the homework is in the PDA than there is in the planner, so you write better notes
• People don’t always bring their homework planner, but no one ever forgets their PDA
• I’m not very good with my homework, but when I put it into the PDA and turn it on when I get home, it ‘s telling me to do my homework
• A cool tool!
Palm PDAs
Carolyn OfferICT Co-
ordinatorEast Herrington Primary School
Sunderland
Palm 130m
• Compact/Portable• Quick boot up• Powerful/Internet• Additions• Colour screen• Battery & Charging• Supporting websites• Sturdy
Software?
• Word documents
• Spreadsheets
• Powerpoint presentations connected to a projector
• Display photos in Photosuite
• QCA maths software available
• Downloaded books
• Notepad, calculator, addresses, alarm & reminders
Downloading & printing
• We have 31 Palms in the class and downloading into Word is done by means of a cradle attached to the laptop and each Palm in my class has its own account.
• One pupil is in charge of supervising this operation and printing off the work.
‘Beaming’ (Infra-red)
• Sharing information• Simple programs
downloaded from net and beamed to each child
• Cooties!• Maths and literacy
software• Foundation subjects,
even Spanish• Easy for children to use
Group use
• Hannah inputs the week’s spelling list and beams it to the rest of her spelling group
• Some children prefer to use small keyboards
• The PDA’s are used for paired writing in poetry
Taking notes
• Making notes and observations on the sights and sounds of spring
• These were collated later and used for poetry writing
• The Palms are useful for note taking on school visits as a worksheet can be prepared and beamed to each PDA before the visit.
In class
• With only 16 computers in our previous ICT room the PDA’s provided valuable extra ICT equipment - so the whole class of 30 were hard at work preparing poems.
Motivation - special needs pupils
• No problems with story writing!
• Willing to complete work
• Short task in pairs to correct a piece of work with some incorrect spellings beamed from my PDA
• Downloaded books for group reading
• Literacy text work
Staff use
• School diary• Making notes when
marking books• Recording marks on
class spreadsheets.• Preparing worksheets • Literacy frameworks• Uploading to my PC at
home• Literacy frameworks• Sharing skills and
ideas
My class at the moment…..
• Science projects on Living Things• Powerpoint presentations• Downloaded to PDA’s.• Shown to parents at home• Used with projector and presented in the
classroom
Learning together
Psion netBooks
Beverley Russell-BurkeHill Mead PrimaryLambeth
Introducing netBooks
• Get to grips with Psions - teacher perspective
• Awe and wonder to the classroom
• Pupils attachment to netBooks
• Using the netBooks in the classroom
How are they used?
• Home school agreement
• netBooks going home• Literacy lessons• Numeracy Lessons
How are they used?
• Foundation subjects
• Internet searches• Creative Activity
Afternoon (CAA)• Parents
And Finally...
netBook benefits:• Promote Literacy and Numeracy • Extend and enhance ICT skills• Give children a wider experience of
the internet• Involve parents/carers in children’s
learning.
The York e-Learning Pilot
Chris Sharples, e-Learning Officer, City of York
Simpad – latest pros
• Wirelessly connected to Network - Internet, printing, interactive whiteboard
• Applications: Internet, word, excel, textmaker, datalogging
• Handwriting recognition
• CF memory card
• Classroom management essentials : On/off, 10 second soft reset, connectivity icons
Where are we now?
Classroom of the Future?
Classroom of the Future
Getting there… key issues
• Pupils - skills and responsibility• Teacher capacity• Finance - E-Learning Foundation• Changing Technology• Building shared
understanding within and between schools
Thank you to …
TeachersPupils
ParentsLEA Colleagues
Conclusions
David Perry
Bold steps
Exploring potential must not mean half-hearted commitment
Most projects choose:• Limited users, comprehensive uses OR• Comprehensive users, limited uses
• Ubiquitous computing is difficult to test
Ubiquitous computing?
Wherever, whatever, ownership
• Important for pupils as well as teachers
• ICT capability – pupils take decisions• ICT ‘literacy’ – understanding and
using information – how do we get them there?
Small device advantages
• Small size, lifestyle integration• Instant-on, no waiting for ‘boot up’
• Classroom integration – changing the pedagogy of ICT
• Transformation potential
Small device advantages
• Wireless networking – LAN/Internet• Quantity of data always available• ‘Up-to-dateness’ (currency) of the
data• Ease of synchronisation and sharing
of data by infra-red ‘beaming’ or WLAN
• Price – universality potential
Limitations
• Need projection for sharing• Rugged enough for child use?• Input techniques (free text/DTP)• Management demands – charging/
file storage/backup
The device of the future?
• Most small devices won’t (yet) do everythingInterim possibilities:• A ‘bridge’ between:
• classroom and ICT suite• school and home• teachers, pupils and families
• £40 each - is it feasible to equip every member of staff and pupil with a PDA - now?
Mobile phones
• Ban them?• Encourage them?• Use them?
• Who pays for them?
Small computers
• Ban them?• Encourage them?• Use them?
• Who pays for them?
Nina at 2yrs 7m