The Wolf Creek Way Safe-NAC and the Use of Personal Devices in a K-12 Learning Environment

1. The Wolf Creek Way Safe-NAC and the Use of Personal Devices in a K-12 Learning Environment Interop 2011 ALU Presentation Creating Success For All Learners

2. Wolf Creek Public Schools • ~7000 Students (55% Rural) • ~1000 Staff • ~5944 km2 • 26 Schools • Minimum meshed 100/20Mb Alberta SuperNet • QoS End-to-End (VoIP and VC in gold) • Minimum 4:1 student:computer ratio (Actual <3:1) • 4 year life cycle – 3000 PCs • 90 VC endpoints • 900 IP ALU phones (4068 and DECT 6.0) • Pervasive, high-density wireless • 5 &2.4 Ghz (802.11a/b/g/n) • 100% large-screen projection • ~80% SmartBoards • 9 technical support staff Edmonton Wolf Creek Public Schools Calgary

3. Our Partnership and Investment in ALU Products Network Switches: OS6850-P48, OS6400-P48, OS6400-24, OS6600-P24, BOS6250-P48, BOS6250-48, OS6248P, OS6148 Wireless Access Points: OAW-AP105, OAW-AP125 Wireless Controllers: OAW-4504, OAW-4302, OAW-4304, OAW-SC-1 VoIP Equipment: OmniPCX Enterprise, IPTouch 4068, DECT handsets and base stations, Remote Shelves with the following boards: GA, GD, PRA-T1, PCS, UAI16, UAI8, APA4, SLI8 Software/Servers: OmniVista 4760, OmniVista 2500, SafeNAC Appliance (2), SafeNAC Policy Manager, SafeNAC Authentication Server, SafeNAC Reporting and Management Server

4. Insights Into Our World Our Driver for Everything: Shared vision of Excellent Learning Environments Our Purpose: Meeting the learning needs of all 21st Century Learners Our Approach: IT governance (congruent with concepts found in the CoBIT framework) An Example: SSDZ - how we ensure we are delivering the right IT services

5. Unique K-12 Challenges Post secondary and corporate environments are very different than the K-12 world The principle of “in loco parentis” applies - Legally we are acting in the place of the parent

6. 4. What does good learning look like? (Rubrics and exemplars) 5. Revisit outcomes to think about Instructional design. (Learning styles, complexity) 3. Where are students relative to the outcome…a pre-assessment phase? 2. What evidence will show that students have met the outcomes? 6. Selection of input structure. (Strategy tool A) 7. Student opportunity to interact with new knowledge. (Strategy tool B) 1. Outcomes are clear to the student. 12. Classroom structure, peer relationships, culture of school and student strategies. 8. Student opportunity to experiment or use new knowledge. (Strategy tool C) 11. Plan to assist students when the outcome is not being met… a new course of action 9. Constant assessment feedback so students can modify learning efforts. 10. Final evaluation on authentic compilation of assessment devices Twelve Research-Based Elements of ELEs Technology

7. Our Beliefs on the Role of Technology Jim Collins – “Good to Great”: “An accelerator” Prewitt in CIO: “The best leaders are those who focus on a handful of useful technologies and ignore the rest, no matter how exciting the bandwagon looks.” October 2002 In Wolf Creek, we believe that the ongoing use and integration of technology is very much a component of basic literacy

8. Connected Kids For 21st Century Kids, technology is more than a tool… it is an essential component of everyday life that frames their social world view For them, being digitally connected is as natural as speaking is to us But…

9. The Disconnect Young people lack an adult perspective on safety, responsibility and general citizenship Consequently they have an underdeveloped sense of risk and responsibility Unfortunately those in the best position to guide them, adult mentors, often find themselves to be strangers in a strange land

10. School 2.0 As Educators We Have Three Choices: • we can try to ignore the shift • we can be reactive and try our best to accommodate the shift • or we can be proactive by embracing and harness the shift In reality we only have one choice

11. The Missing Piece While many laud the advantages of increased connectivity, few seem to take a full 3600 approach that addresses Digital Citizenship

12. Enabling Technologies How do we ensure we are deploying the right technologies? In a Word – Governance Five-year vision: how will decisions made today look in five years?

13. Build Up Plan Down Focus Group Effective Project Planning

14. Avoiding Isolated Planning

15. SSDZ – Enabling Personally Owned Devices • Pedagogy Design Goals: • Ensure digital citizenship concepts and expectations are well understood by staff, students, and parents • Embed digital citizenship behaviours as a natural part of school culture • Enable pedagogy and learning environments that foster 21st century skills including collaboration, communication, knowledge creation, global awareness and reach, creative problem posing and solving, critical thinking… • Leverage and embrace the tools that students already have and the environments that students already understand and populate

16. SSDZ – Enabling Personally Owned Devices • ALU Safe-NAC Technical Design Goals: • 100% availability for any device/platform (OS) anytime (reliability, AP density, 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz, infrastructure capacity, other…) • Authenticated, logged/monitored access • Simple authenticated guest access (Captive Portal) • Auto-connect for regularly connected wireless devices • Dual layer access for personal devices (basic filtered ISP then direct access to core resources after HIC check) • Protect non-HIC personal devices from each other • Non-filtered access for special occasions • Same parameters for both wired and wireless access • Make experience as seamless as possible with minimal loss of instructional time

17. ALU Safe-NAC Advantages • Provides the ability to: • provide detailed audit of endpoint configuration • classify endpoints at the MAC layer • restrict or enable access based upon ACLs • utilize and leverage existing infastructure

18. EXfiles Payroll Core network VoIP SIS Servers Internet FireWall SmartBoards VoIP Labs Servers CISS Workstations Payroll External Services Mail Website Portal Videoconference EXfiles Network 1.0 Network 2.0 Blogs Ning FaceBook Student - Staff Device Zone Twitter Wikis Printers Existing Wolf Creek network Printers iPad SmartPhone Laptop PDA

19. Wireless SSIDs • 1. WC-Secure • Wireless domain member devices only • 802.1x device authentication • same log-on experience as wired domain devices • 2. WC-Guest • Filtered Internet access only • Captive portal authentication • AD guest ID required • No device to device visibility

20. Wireless SSIDs • 3. WC-SSDZ (Student - Staff Device Zone) • pre-configured for auto connection to stage 1 • Stage 1 access same services as Guest access • Stage 2 full access to core resources (printers, file servers, etc) after successful HIC check • 4. WC-Presenter • Authenticated raw Internet access extended to any AP upon specific request

21. SSDZ Readiness Tour • Met one-on-one with every school admin team to: • Explain how all four SSIDs work, particularly SSDZ • Identify support structures (school and district) • Review school approach to DC (students, staff, parents) • Discuss the pedagogical changes that teaching in a connected environment necessitates • Re-think current cell phone policies • Contemplate decommissioning the content filter • Encourage participation in a community of practice within Wolf Creek

22. Cost Considerations • Some envisioned that enabling student-owned devices would save costs • SSDZ was not implemented to reduce the need to buy PCs • Instead the intent is to increase access and embrace the mobile revolution that is likely to supplant the PC as the preferred connectivity device • Yes, there may be less need to purchase PCs • But, clearly more need for bandwidth and robust infrastructure

23. Cost Considerations • Similarly… • Videoconferencing wasn’t implemented to save costs – it was implemented to serve student needs (and save schools) • VoIP did save operational costs, but the main driver was increase service levels and opportunities to communicate and collaborate with parents and other staff

24. What’s Ahead… • We will witness a significant shift towards increased support for personal devices • Standards, a long-standing strategy – will sometimes end at the network demark point • Our focus will be on a robust infrastructure and well-supported services – the 4:1 minimum ratio is under review • Consumer-oriented devices of personal choice will define the end-point (and the support structure) • Cloud applications such as GoogleDocs may (eventually) supplant locally installed applications (Wolf Creek Google domain is in the works) • Bandwidth demand will grow exponentially

25. On The Horizon • User agreements will have to morph into something that is actually intended to be read • Privacy concerns will become an even more significant challenge in the days ahead • Digital Citizenship is and will be of paramount concern

26. We live in a globally connected society Our vision is to create Excellent Learning Environmentsthat ensure we meet our mandate to prepare our students for adult life 21st century learning is all about preparing young people to become caring, competent Canadians with the knowledge, skills, and attributes to be successful global citizens

27. www.wolfcreek.ab.ca