6 Components for Success by Mike Muir from the Maine Center for Meaningful and Engaged Learning
1. Teacher Practice
2. Leadership
3. Professional Development
4. Technology Access & Support
5. Partnerships
6. Funding
It is not called a laptop program as Seymour Papert worked with Gov. Angus King worked together and wanted to focus on learning.
Maine Learns web site
Maine Learning with Laptops Studies
PDF of presentation is on Doing 1 to 1 Right.
Get the model handout called Doing 1to1 Success Model – PDF
Additional Links:
Schools We Need
1 to 1 Stories
Highlights:
Effective Leaders: Set Direction, Develop People, and Redesign the Organization
Positive Pressure and Support – Evaluate and Have High Expectations combined with High Support
Let students take them home. They worked with Time Warner and got a self-install for high-speed access at home. Computrace was used by some schools.
PD must be during the day, focus on teaching, pay attention to energy levels, respond to teachers’ needs: Just in Time, Listen to Teacher Voices, Zone of Proximal Development (Vgotsky), Meetings with and agenda based on what teachers wanted to learn, Agenda was adjusted as necessary.
Teaching Technology Quickly: Kids Teaching Kids (3 before me), Cheat Sheets
Carts do not allow for spontaneous teaching but do allow for planned teaching with technology.
If possible, allow anyone to come on the network with any hardware. Have a separate guest system so they can access the Internet.
Do not get into the platform wars as this is largely an adult issue. Discussion needs to be about Use and Support. There is now fewer differences between Macintosh and Windows then there is a between versions of Windows.
Infrastructure is mission critical. Where will you store them when not being used. Power management – one school has spare batteries in the library that they can switch out batteries.
Cases will save you money on repairs. They now use one with a sleeve for extra padding.
Jeff Mao’s Hockey Analogy: The Goalie – keep everyone safe, protect stuff, Leads Team in Goals – Visionary, Follow Me, Leads Team in Assists – Provides Support and Creates Opportunities. The most effective are the Leads Team in Assists.
Breakage has nothing to do with hardware but rather the School Culture, Function of Teacher Use, Student Engagement, Leadership, Policies and Procedures. Use for Academic Learning is the best way to limit breakage and inappropriate use.
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