- 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
- 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!
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