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  • Maintain processes and routines that empower students
  • Focus on open creativity apps
  • Computer programming unit
  • Curation of student portfolios
  • Blogging with KidBlog

Lesley Younge

Sidwell Friends School

@LesYounge

youngel@sidwell.edu sfsipads.blogspot.com

Student Choice and Self Differentiation

The Learning

Showing Their Thinking:

  • Teachers can coach from the sidelines
  • let students lead their learning
  • launch and guide
  • Experiments can fail and still be worthwhile
  • Passion and process > product
  • Creation > Creativity
  • Consumption vs. Creation - choose wisely!

Redefinition

Modification

  • Trailers for books, apps, and other interests
  • Problem solving screencasts
  • Mash-ups between apps
  • Book review videos and QR code genre wall
  • Problem solving keynote presentations
  • Discussion boards on Haiku

The Teaching

SAMR

model of tech integration

Augmentation

  • Photo and Video Documentation
  • Google Drive document sharing
  • Pic Collage posters
  • Keynote graphs
  • Inspiration Maps and Outlines

Results

  • App exploration process
  • Support systems: Sidwell email,

Google Drive, Haiku

  • Digital citizenship
  • SAMR model of project

ideation and assessment

Substitution

Passion Projects, Self/Peer Teaching, and Interest Sharing

  • Google Drive and AI Writer for typing
  • Strip Designer for Buddhist Jataka comics
  • Book Creator Babywatch journals
  • Drawing Box

Student Humor and Insight

How iPads Revolutionized Our 1:1 Program:

A Year in Teaching and Learning

Looking Forward to Next Year

Preparation and Professional Development

Goal Setting

What could we hope to accomplish?

  • Logistical planning meetings for storage and charging
  • Rollout plan led by technology director
  • iPads for teachers over the summer - in CHINA!
  • Lausanne Laptop Institute in Memphis with presenter Denise Coffin
  • Present at the EdTech iPad Summit in Boston, AIMS Technology Retreat, Connections Conference!
  • sfsipads.blogspot.com
  • More Creativity
  • More Collaboration
  • More Independence
  • Better Assessment

Technology and Me

6 years of teaching

with a 1:1 device ratio!

  • Alphasmarts
  • Netbooks

And now iPads?

Institutional Reasoning For Change:

What would be different?

Revolution: a complete or

marked change in something

  • Time to replace the netbooks
  • Cost the same
  • Success with use in Kindergarten
  • A worthy experiment?

The Roots

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