2. Administrative Considerations:
● Premise:
“every child in the Middle School will have a computer”
Goals:
● Promote: creativity, collaboration, critical thinking,
communication, connection, problem-solving
● Foster skill development in: research, presentations,
word processing, digital media literacy
● Functionalities: internet, reader, calculator, inking, video
and audio content creation & consumption
3. Admin. considerations (cont.)
● school values and strategic plan,infrastructure and curriculum
Goal #1: PREPARE our students for Academic Excellence in a Global
Future
Westside commits to develop essential 21st Century skills that help
prepare students to succeed as informed world citizens.
● Background: PC, server-based environment, 6-7 desktops per classroom
in 3-5th, doc cameras, projectors, some netbooks
● Budget/costs - roughly $500/student, 62 devices, 2 carts ($50K)
● Marketing/ Bling factor
4. Purchasing:
1. Apple education - get approved, discount
2. macbook as control module, backup
3. ordering - was 3wk timeline
4. cart selection, charging vs. sync
5. keyboards
6. config time, app selection
7. VPP - volume purchase program, code mgmt
8. access.- cases, adapters, stylus, screen protect
9. Resources: Monoprice, Amazon
5. Instructional preparation
● devices to teachers in summer
● experimentation, push it, "what can't they do?"
● Ways to use in classroom:
○ center work, reader, presentation, app-specific, IXL-
1st in Math, keyboarding, research, Google Earth,
video and audio creation,
● Professional development: Apple, local, in-house
● Take home and play
6. Student and Parent Preparation:
● Acceptable use policy
● iPad contract
● case selection
● insurance option
● device checkout - student with parent
● student orientation - scaffolding, 1 hour, day,
overnight...
● breakage, damage, loss
● student choices - good and bad
7. Questions:
● Does tech:
○ enhance and enrich the curriculum and program?
○ facilitate differentiation ?
○ improve individualization?
○ act as a marketing tool?
○ engage and challenge students?
Other:
● Email-internal, external, Gmail, Exchange
● itunes - individual or managed, app codes to teachers?
● Office vs. Pages/Numbers/Keynote
● Flash: Rover, 2x, Citrix...
