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5 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Innovate in Your School | edSocialMedia - 8 views

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  • Are you truly being innovative or just implementing technology to say you did it?
  • The innovation, in this case technology, must improve student learning.
  • Innovative technology must improve instruction.
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  • must become part of the fabric of instruction so that the teachers become more efficient and effective at how they motivate, engage and instruct students
  • What type of professional development for teachers, training for students and information sessions for parents must be implemented for the innovation to have a chance at being successful
  • Technology is changing by the minute and the pressure to be innovative accelerates the timeline for implementation. Be realistic, talk to other schools and districts about their process of implementing similar innovations, and learn from their successes and challenges
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BYOD: Increase Chances for Success! - 0 views

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    #1 Scott Kinkoph on 22 Oct 12
     
    Specs
    1.  Should be a set of minimum specs
    2.  For kids who can't afford it, some places give kids a Chromebook

    Questions
    What do you with kids who don't bring, or don't have the BYOD?
    Teacher training?  Offer ongoing, long term support.
    Network security?  Bringing in devices that can bring the network down.  A separate network for BYOD
    What about 3G or 4G where the network isn't needed?
    Equity among students?  Fundraisers to earn the device, and every family to get insurance on device and the family takes care of all of the repairs.
    Does BYOD really save money?  Bandwidth, infrastructure, and training all has to take place.  

    3 things to help plan for BYOD
    1.  research
    2.  planning tools
    3.  additional resources

    Reaserch
    1.  Horizon Reports
    2.  Speak Up Reports

    Planning Tools
    1.  There will always be issues
    2.  MILE Guide Self-Assessment Tool-Partnership for 21st Century Skills
    mileguidecover
      >Implementation Guiding Recommendations
      >P21 Framework
    3.  Participatory Learning-Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
      >Acceptable use policies in the Web 2.0 era
      >Leading with Web 2.0
      >Learning with Web 2.0
      >Transformative leadership with Web 2.0

    4.  One-to-One 2.0
    Learning
    BYOD should be considered across the district starting at grade 5
    Buy a laptop and give to every freshman
    Tell parents what they have to buy
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