With any major change, there are always hurdles that have to be overcome. Our Board has done a pretty significant about face, and has gone from not supporting or allowing personal devices of kids at school to adopting BYOD as the new policy for all schools K-12. This is awesome, but it's a big board, and things are going to take time.
Here's what went well the last couple weeks:
I managed to make my library orientation interactive using Poll Everywhere. I'd ask a question, students registered their vote, we looked at the results, and then I talked about how that question related to the library. So the awesome fact is that every single class in the school has had an opportunity to use their devices or use our school netbooks AND I had a chance to remind every class of the expectation re. the netbook use.
Here's what I'm hoping to get going this week.
Our ten iPads are almost ready for sign out. We really want them to be used for production more than consumption, and encouraging this kind of thinking with some staff members is tough. Some of the staff just see the iPad as a tool for browsing the Internet. We're going to continue to remind everyone of the SAMR model, and hopefully, that will be enough. When iPads are signed out, they're going to be taken for a day at a time, and hopefully that will encourage some creativity.
Here's what went well the last couple weeks:
I managed to make my library orientation interactive using Poll Everywhere. I'd ask a question, students registered their vote, we looked at the results, and then I talked about how that question related to the library. So the awesome fact is that every single class in the school has had an opportunity to use their devices or use our school netbooks AND I had a chance to remind every class of the expectation re. the netbook use.
Here's what I'm hoping to get going this week.
Our ten iPads are almost ready for sign out. We really want them to be used for production more than consumption, and encouraging this kind of thinking with some staff members is tough. Some of the staff just see the iPad as a tool for browsing the Internet. We're going to continue to remind everyone of the SAMR model, and hopefully, that will be enough. When iPads are signed out, they're going to be taken for a day at a time, and hopefully that will encourage some creativity.
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