This presentation was given to Year 7 2013 parents during an information evening about the Year 7 2013 BYOiPad program at St Luke's Grammar School by Mr. Jason Arruzza, Director of ICT.

1. Year 7 2013 BYOiPad
St Luke’s Grammar School
Parent Information Evening
31 July, 2012

2. PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
• Significantly reduce weight of textbook load

3. • Current (total) weight of Y7 texts >10KG

4. SECONDARY
• Used as a toolset by teachers to assist in
OBJECTIVES
differentiating the curriculum
• Majority of students and teachers will
increase fluency of ‘working well digitally’:
• use Internet for research and school tasks appropriately;
• Take notes in and out of class;
• Capture, edit & share images, sound and video;
• Draw/sketch/create artworks;
• Find, collect and analyse data;
• Stay organised!

5. What will it look like?
• Families will provide their Year 7 students
with an iPad for use at School
• Students will load their prescribed
textbooks onto iPads
• School-provided FAST WiFi Internet
access

6. 2013 Year 7 BYOiPad at
St Luke’s
• Based on Danebank’s successful 7-10
compulsory iPad program:
http://ipad.danebank.nsw.edu.au/
• A two-year program over 2013 & 2014
• Vision: “Fully” BYOT 7-12 in 2015

7. BYOT: 5 Year Plan
• Continue Y10-12 BYOT
• BYOiPad Year 7’s 2013, 2014
• MY 2013 & 2014: Evaluate progress
• Establish ‘true’ BYOT for 2015 7-12 going
forward

8. BYOT Fundamentals:
• Personal choice of the technology by the student or family, although schools
can advise.
• The enhanced facility for the personalisation of teaching and learning in and
outside the school walls.
• The recognition that the in-school use of the students’ digital technology is
an extension from students’ existing use of that technology to assist their
self-teaching and learning
• The home and students having their ownership of the technology and the
information stored thereon respected.
• Authentic home-school collaboration is integral to the school’s achievement
of the normalised usage of the students’ technology
SOURCE: Lee, 2012

9. BYOiPad v. BYOT
Same device Student chooses device
Same OS Family-owned Student chooses OS
Family-supported
Prescribed Apps Student chooses software
Prescribed
texts loaded
Quasi-SOE approach Tools-based approach

10. BYOT Continuum
“Working well
digitally” Year 7
BYOiPad Program
2013-2014
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

11. Towards a ‘Cloud-based’ approach
• Old Way:
• New Direction:
• Standard Operating
Environments (SOE) • Tools-based software
approach
• Only School-owned
technology • Student-owned technology
on School Infrastructure
• Data ‘in-house’ on file
servers • Data in “the cloud’
• Software programs • SaaS - through the browser
-licensed

12. Why iPad?

13. Why the iPad?
• excellent as an eReader
• largest market share
• most developed “ecosystem,” stable OS
• largest uptake in Schools
• robust, well-engineered device
• weighs ~600 grams
• exceptional battery life
• “instant on”

14. Costings: student texts
Publisher Title KLA Format Paper 1 Yr
edn $ license $
Oxford myWorldAtlas Geography App or web $62.95 $19.90
Pearson Global Explorations Geography ePub $69.95 $34.98
Pearson Touche Stage 1 Languages pdf $36.00 $18.00
Pearson Science Focus Science ePub $71.20 $35.60
Jacaranda Artwise Visual Arts pdf $67.95 $33.98
Pearson Heinemann Poetry 1 English pdf $32.70 $16.35
RWP Trash English epub $17.95 $8.25
RWP Boy in the Striped Pyjamas English ePub $23.95 $9.63
MacMillan A Midsummer's’ Night Dream English epub $17.95 $0.00
Jacaranda Retroactive Stage 4 History pdf & web $69.95 $48.50
Total: $470.55 $225.18

15. Costings: Apps
• TBC. Looking at ~$60 budget for
Prescribed Apps

16. iPad Pricing
• iPad 2 still available from $429
• “The new iPad” 16GB WiFi from $539
• An appropriate protective case should cost
$40-$60 depending on model
• iPad 1’s are acceptable for 2013 (depending
on condition of battery)

17. Expectations of
Students
• Open and manage their own iTunes
account
• Come to school with a charged battery
• Have all prescribed texts and apps loaded

18. Expectations of Parents
• Support the program
• supervise appropriate use at home
• decide how to help manage student’s App
purchases

19. Expectations of
Teachers
• Support the program
• Invest time in building fluency in iOS to
support teaching & learning
• Learn along with students about new new
ways of working well digitally

20. End Presentation