This is a copy of my presentation given at the 2013 VITTA & ICTEV 2013 conference

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