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Attract: How can I interest participants in the event before they even arrive?  What should they do, watch, consider or experience that will get them excited and mentally prepared for an event? Enter: What happens as participants enter a space?  How do I want them to feel as they  arrive?   Engage: While they are at the event, what are the experiences that will that lead to transformation?  How will participants engage with their learning and with each other? Exit: How do I want the participants to feel at the end of the event?  How do we end?  How do they physically and mentally exit the space?  What will the participants leave with? Extend: What is the long-term transformation that I want them to have?  How do I follow-up with the participants and build on the experience?  How can I extend the transformation beyond the experience itself?

Perhaps the weakest area of the typical one-to-one computing plan is the complete absence of leadership development for the administrative team—that is, learning how to manage the transition from a learning ecology where paper is the dominant technology for storing and retrieving information, to a world that is all digital, all the time. Leaders must be given the training to: Craft a clear vision of connecting all students to the world’s learning resources. Model the actions and behaviors they wish to see in their schools. Support the design of an ongoing and embedded staff development program that focuses on pedagogy as much as technology. Move in to the role of systems analyst to ensure that digital literacy is aligned with standards. Ensure that technology is seen not as another initiative, but as integral to curriculum.