What matters, and what’s really worth doing
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What matters, and what’s really worth doing
Exploring issues around personal technology provision
Bruce DixonCo-founder Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation
Founding Director of [email protected]
“BYOD is one of those things that keeps IT managers awake at night”The Age May 3 2012
Perspective•My alignments, biases and intent
www.ideaslab.edu.au
Perspective• My alignments, biases
and intent
…and Context• What have learnt in 22
years?• What is working..what
is not?• How homogenous are
we, how homogenous are the answers?
• Where are you really at? DER?
Are we there yet?…
Pioneered in Australia in the 90’s, the Tipping Points came firstly in 2003, with the Maine whole state public school initiative, then with Affordable computing in 2006.
Pioneered in Australia in the 90’s, the Tipping Points came firstly in 2003, with the Maine whole state public school initiative, then with Affordable computing in 2006.
I believe we have an obligation to make this available to ALL our
students.Ron Lake
Regional Director Loddon Campaspe, Vic
This is not a privilege, but EVERY child’s Right
Miguel Brechner FreyPresident, LATU (Laboratorio Tecnologico del Uruguay), Uruguay
www.aalf.org
Something to celebrate…
Policy/Model Options
Student brings any computer
Student brings any device
Student has one core computer which is
mandated
Student has core device, plus any
number of additional devices
Funding Options
Government pays total cost of computer
Parent pays total cost of own student’s own
computer
Parents co-contribute to the cost of a computer,
+ optionally other sources
Parent pays total cost of computer purchased
through the school.
Fourteen questions
to consider around
effective 1 to 1
deployment programs
How well do your
teachers manage
technology?
…theirs and their students?
…how consistent is
that across your staff?
Question #1
Does your funding model
ensure all students will have
equal access to learning resources?
…is your model equitable?
….is it both sustainable, and scalable?
…be very wary of funding of last resort.
Question #2
What is the most common
learning modality
across your school?
….teacher-directed or student-centered?
..make sure technological
imperatives don’t get ahead of pedagogical
realities
Question #3
How will software
licencing be managed?
…home vs school licencing?
…how are costs impacted by various ownerships
models?
..upgrades?
Question #4
How are stakeholders
within the school
community involved in
developing the model?
…making the ‘right’ technology decisions
who are your stakeholders?
…what decisions should they be involved with.
Question #5
Who is going to be
responsible for maintenance
of student computers?
…vendor/3rd party, students?
…lifecycles?…how much resources
will the school allocate to this?
…data loss and recovery?
Question #6
To what extent will
‘extra’s’ such as extended
warranty and insurance be mandated or
optional?
…how will SLA’s & KPI’s be managed?
Who is responsible for loaners, lemons
and losses? .
Question #7
To what extent does
policy determine what is on students’
machines?
…games policy, social media?
…school space,
personal space?
Question #8
Who will be responsible
for managing compatibilitie
s, images, viruses and
security?
…school or students?.
Question #9
Who is responsi
ble for staff
computers?
…tracking expenses and
costs?
Question #10
How do you develop criteria to clearly define your student’s personal
computer requirements?
… who defines the functions specifications?
…what justifies anything less than a personal portable computer?
…what role does price play?
how does this limit your choices?.
Question #11
How far do your
HelpDesk services stretch?
… how to manage costs?
…how to resolve issues between student-owned
and installed software and
school- owned and installed software?
Question #12
To what extent is
your students’ learning
self-directed?
…who makes the decisions around what,
when and how the students
learn?
Question #13
Do you have the expertise,
resources and budget to
effectively manage a variety
of technologies across a variety
of platforms?…MDM-8
…timing is everything.
One final
question…
Emerging web technologies provide an “architecture for
participation”..how open have we really been to what they make possible?
Universal 1 to 1access is …• challenging traditional approaches to
how we learn.• challenging our assumptions about
classrooms and teaching.• challenging our assumptions about
knowledge, information and literacy. Is it really?
Unprecedented opportunity to
re-imagine Teaching & Learning
Whole System Reform
Knowledge
What’s now possible?
What really matters is..
We now have the technologies we need for transformation;
available, affordable and manageable
Ubiquitous access to modern technology
now makes it possible for student learning
outcomes that are broader, deeper,
more relevant, more complex,
and more creative than
we could ever imagine.
We mustn’t let anything get in the
way of making this a reality for all
students.
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“My own philosophy is revolutionary rather than
reformist in its concept of change. But the
revolution I envision is of ideas, not of
technology.
It consists of new understandings of specific
subject domains and in new understandings of
the process of learning itself. It consists of a
new and much more ambitious setting of sights
of educational inspiration. Prof. Seymour Papert
Mathematician, Scientist, Educator