Deploying iPads at genazzano p 4 2013 considerations challenges and lessons learned
1. Slide title here
Mr Nathan Hutchings
Director of Information and eLearning Technologies
iPads from Prep to 4
• Considerations
• Challenges
• Lessons learned
2. The Genazzano iPad Program
• Every prep to year 4 student has an iPad
• total of 86 devices
• The iPads stay at school
• However, each student gets their own for the whole year
• iPads complement and support existing teaching and learning
• Pedagogy drives teaching and learning, NOT the technology
3. The Genazzano iPad Program
• Tactile interfaces are ideal for young learners
• Apps used
• Story creator
• endless alphabet
• Jumbled sentences
• speak-a-boo
• School A to Z
• Show me
4. The Genazzano iPad Program
• Teachers display what is
on their iPad directly to
the board from anywhere
in the room
• Teachers demonstrate
directly or ask a student
to share their learning
5. Considerations
• Giving time for teachers to experiment
• Teachers issued device before roll out
• Not every teacher is drawn to using IT
• Devices are used in a balanced manner, appropriate to this
Stage of Learning – a time of great exploration, discovery and
joy
• Genazzano is a school not a sales channel for Apple or any
other IT company
6. Challenges
• Some teachers unfamiliar with iPads
• Concerns that device will drive pedagogy rather than
pedagogy driving the use of the device
• Imaging the devices
• This process was much harder than initially thought
• Initially teachers had long lists of apps which cluttered the
interface
• Charging and storage cabinets very expensive
• Manufactured our own cabinets and saved considerable
funds
7. Lessons learned
• Give teachers the flexibility to deploy apps to devices in their
class
• PD to be delivered by teachers to teachers if possible within
school
8. The Genazzano iPad Program
Nathan Hutchings
Director of Information and eLearning Technologies
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NathanHutchings
Hinweis der Redaktion
In this brief session I will describe the deployment of iPads to our Prep to year 4 girls this year. And describe some of the considerations, challenges and lessons we have learnt along the way.
Currently we have a total of 96 iPads, 86 for students and the balance for staff. We decided that the ipads should remain at school so as to extend the life of the device and ensure that every student had a device on a daily basis. Each student has a device assigned to them for the whole year. Students use a picture of themselves as wall paper so it is easy to identify.
Although we currently use iPads it is the tactile nature of the device that is ideal for young learns. It is often interesting to watch young children pick up a new device and immediate expect is to be a touch device.
Using apps like show me and Apple TV teachers are able to directly mirror what is on their iPad. This is invaluable as the teacher can show/demonstrate a concept while moving freely around the room rather than be tied to the IWB. Teachers can also have a student drive their iPad as a way of allowing the student to share their learning
Important to steer conversations about apps towards how they support learning, “This app, how is it helping the student to learn about whole word recognition, sentence structure and meaning, narrative structure…”
Investigating allowing greater teacher control over what apps are used other than a given set. We are also looking at how this can be done in a more automated manner as currently a teacher has to individually go to each device to download another app. We need to work on explicit training about this