TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION

1. TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION SYSTEMATIC PLAN FOR IMPLEMENTATION FAIRMONT PREPARATORY ACADEMY 2012-13

2. INTRODUCTION • The basic principles: • Children are our most precious resource • The solution to poverty, peace, and environment is education • Teaching is one but not the only way to achieve learning • Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC)

3. Net Generation of Learners • Don Tapscott (2008) in a series for Business Week on the Net Generation wrote that the old model of pedagogy that is teacher-focused, one-way, and one-size-fits-all, makes no sense to young people who have grown up in a digital world. He argues that members of the Net Generation have different mental habits than their Boomer parents. They expect a conversation, rather than a lecture, and they're used to working in groups, rather than working alone and, he argues, digital immersion has even affected the way they absorb information. They don't necessarily read a page in a textbook from left to right and from top to bottom. They might instead skip around the page, scanning for pertinent information of interest (Tapscott, 2008).

4. The Four Pillars of Success

5. Information Technology Department • Wireless Adapters • Installation in each Prep room 04/09 – 04/13 • Testing infrastructure 04/16 –04/20 • Action Items (dates TBD) • Support personnel for nearly 825 iPads • Office space for IT Department • Inventory control • How many additional units on hand as loaners – recommend 5% • Ownership? • Process for loaning and recapturing devices • Standard keyboards on hand for use in library, classrooms, etc.

6. Parents • Launch letter disseminated to parents 04/20 • Parent Q & A Sessions • Parent/Teacher Association 04/19 • Prep Parents 05/03, 06/07 • Feeder Campus Presentations Dates TBD • Website Updates Dates TBD • Informational section with Q & A for parents • Informational videos from Apple • Book information • Acceptable Use Agreement (handout)

7. Faculty • iPads in hand 04/16 • Professional Development Facilitators • Prep Technology Trainers • Identified (Sabba Q & Rebecca T) • Prep Department Trainers • Identified for each subject department (03/12) • Department Trainers: • Dana V+ Wendy B - English • Sabba Q + Kim G - Social Science • Patricia A - VAPA • Mark A + Pete R - PE • Rebecca T - Science • Kelly R + Chelsea D - Math • Fairmont Education Department

8. Faculty (cont’d.) Professional Development Timeline • Apple Professional Development • 05/04, 06/01, remaining 6 sessions TBD • Department Training Sessions • 04/18, 04/25, 05/02, 05/09, 05/16, 05/23, 06/06 • Academic Year 2012-13 • TBD

9. Students • Distribution Timeline • Receipt of iPads 07/01 • Asset Inventory • Configuration, viz., security, standard app downloads, etc. • 07/01 – 08/13 • Student receipt 08/13 – 08/17 • Action Items • App/Book Downloads • Insurance ? • Recapturing $$ outlay per device • Flat rate or finance • Inventory • How many ? • Ownership of inventory control • Acceptable Use Agreement

10. Epilogue • Mobile technology is moving rapidly forward whether teachers and administrators like it or not. The findings of this small pilot study indicate that mobile devices can easily be incorporated into the classroom with a minimum of effort. However, it is the attitudes and pedagogical ideas of the teachers that will need to change to accommodate how the net generation sees their world and how they want to learn from it. By 2025, we will have children who have grown up never knowing a time when they did not have mobile devices with instant access to information. We must be prepared.