8. Our participants
Name Age Gender Ethnicity Grade(s) Subject Area(s) Public/ Location
Private
1. Ashleigh 48 Female Caucasian BK-4th Computers Public Michigan
2. Steven 25 Male Caucasian 9th-12th Math Private Kentucky
3. Pam 53 Female Black 8th Inclusion Public Tennessee
4. Isabella 29 Female South American 3rd All/Dual Public Tennessee
Language
5. Marne 43 Female Caucasian 9-12 Spanish Public Tennessee
6. Gabe 27 Male Black 9-12 Algebra 1 Public Tennessee
7. Tony 29 Male Black 6-8 Input Technology Public Mississippi
8. Mike 39 Male Caucasian 12 English Public New York
9.
10. Findings
ž Control & ownership of mobile
computing devices
ž How teachers are using mobile
computing devices
ž Teachers seek out & receive
professional development
ž Technical problems & frequency
ž Administrators as champions or not
11. Control and ownership of
mobile computing devices
ž Control
• Teachers use only
• Teachers determine use
• Students determine use
FINDINGS
12. Control and ownership of
mobile computing devices
ž Ownership
• School owns the devices for students to
use in school.
• School owns the devices for students to
use in school and take home.
• Students own the device
• Teachers own the device(s)
FINDINGS
13. IN THEIR WORDS
“ I use it as a documentation tool. I can
type out a quick note on my phone, and
it will save it and it will sync to my
computer automatically, so that I can
look at that later whether in a
conference meeting with parents.
Steven
”
15. IN THEIR WORDS
“ They want to be involved, so they are
actively involved in the application, 99%
of the time.
“ ”
The students before didn’t really care if
they couldn’t use the computers,
”
Ashleigh
16. IN THEIR WORDS
“ My lessons are more student-centered.
Students are directing their own
learning. I only serve as a facilitator.
“ ”
Yes, they (students) are going to play
around on their iPads or what I call "high
tech doodling, but it is up to the teacher to
keep them on task.
”
18. IN THEIR WORDS
“ It's almost like you're tricking them into
learning, which is what we're always
trying to do anyway...We want them to
learn without realizing they're learning.
Isabella ”
19. How teachers are using mobile
computing devices: Isabella
FINDINGS
20. How teachers are using mobile
computing devices: Isabella
FINDINGS
21. IN THEIR WORDS
“ You're more eager to plan because it's
like, "wow, wait 'til I show them this!"
They are so eager to learn and
participate.
Pam
”
24. Teachers seek out & receive
professional development.
• Teach for America • iPad + iPod=Same
• Apple • Background
Distinguished Experience
Educator
• Summer Webinars • Self-Taught
FINDINGS
25. IN THEIR WORDS
“ If they offered more (PD), I would
definitely go!
”
“ With my background in working with
mobile devices as well as outside training
outside the school, I believe that both
”
have proved to be adequate training
26. Technical problems &
frequency
• network errors • Overload of network
• Flash based • Lack of daily access
programs not to devices
compatible. • E-mail only way to
• Lack of LCD send or recieve
projectors to show data.
images from
devices
FINDINGS
27. Teachers' perceptions of
benefits to mobile devices
ž Efficiency
ž Differentiatinginstruction
ž Enthusiastic planning
ž Students that... Want to participate!!
FINDINGS
28. Administrators as champions
“ My principal fully supports the integration of
technology into my lessons.
“ My principal has allowed me the flexibility of
conducting classes in other locations such
”
as outside and in the auditorium in order to
give children the opportunity to interact in
”
different learning environments.
Raymond
FINDINGS
29. Administrators as champions
“ I showed her everything and she was just
sold on the level of organization and
documentation that it gave me per student.
Steven
”
FINDINGS
30. Administrators: Support vs. Budget
“ It would be helpful if the principal would buy a
classroom set.
Barb
”
“
We’ve had a discussion about becoming closer
to a one-to-one school where we’ve got rolling
carts and have iPads on them, and things like
that, but as far as the teachers are concerned,
they give each teacher a laptop, but I think
”
that’s as far as they’ll go with teachers.
Steven
FINDINGS
31. Administrators: Misguided Logic
“
Our board is really where we are not getting
”
our support.
“
I’ve heard that the board, and again this is just
what I heard, is that several of the board
members did not understand why, and I guess
some of the teachers didn’t understand why
they would be put in the lowest grade level
”G S
school first.
Ashleigh
FINDIN
32. How can this help?
• More ideas on how to use MCD in
classrooms
• Teachers will have an expectation of
how they will be supported and trained
• Administrators will understand teachers
perceptions
• Software developers
33. What we still want to know
• Student achievment?
• iPod vs. iPad vs. iPhone?
• Use of non-Apple products?
• Impact on teaching practices?
• Why are some schools and teachers not
using them?
