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You ’ ve Got the Stuff,. Now What?. Change Instruction. Infrastructure Staff Development Support Personnel on campus District and campus administration Culture. Infrastucture. Wireless Coverage Capacity Bandwidth - consider Devices you deploy Devices you currently have
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You’ve Got the Stuff, • Now What?
Change Instruction • Infrastructure • Staff Development • Support • Personnel on campus • District and campus administration • Culture
Infrastucture • Wireless • Coverage • Capacity • Bandwidth - consider • Devices you deploy • Devices you currently have • Devices that are brought in by staff and students
Staff Development Deployed iPads to teachers early! • Basic functions • iTunes Accounts • Navigate • Download Apps • iBooks • iTunes U
Staff Development iPadU - 3 days of exploration for a group of core area teachers • Addressed anxieties • QR codes, iMovie, Formative Assessment • Core subject specific Apps led by teachers
Staff Development Model what you want to see in the classroom by designing your staff development in the same manner
Staff Development • Four Dedicated Inservice Days • Basics of iPad functionality and troubleshooting • Course management tools • Edmodo • Dropbox • Classroom management • PBL/CBL
Support • Just In Time Help • Appy Hours – Apps and Q & A • Dedicated personnel to coach teachers and supporting students • Administration needs to be “on board”
Culture • Baby steps are OK • Provide a safe environment for teachers to fail • Encourage Teachers to facilitate learning • Encourage Students to own their learning • AND JUST...
Let Go! • Of control • Of desks in rows, the moat and drawbridge effect • Of silence: allow students to collaborate • Of needing to know all of the answers • Rigid expectations
When you let Go • Students teach themselves in ways meaningful for them • Products are diverse, creative, demonstrate deeper learning • Students teach each other through collaboration and sharing ideas • Teachers learn from the students
South Belton Middle School • Over 750 middle school students • Take the iPad home • Mananged and monitored
Miller Heights Elementary • 200 plus iPads • One-to- one for 5th grade • One-to-two for 3rd and 4th grade • Centers of iPads for Pre-K through 2nd • iPads do not go home • Managed
iBHS • Over 2500 high school students • Take the iPad home • Monitored, not managed • Students manage their own iTunes accounts
South Belton Middle School Digital Learning Belton ISD Digital Learning Video
Contact Information • Terice Schneider 254-2069 • terice.schneider@bisd.net • Vicki Ventura • 254-2052 • vicki.ventura@bisd.net • Belton ISD Belton ISD 1:1 Initiative Website