LaptopInstitute

**Student laptops From Students View**
-summer projects to help students become more comfortable -summer professional development -digital textbooks -Prep programs in LS -no computer lab -open network, no authentication, student laptops are off the domain -Students involved in technology committee Meet weekly -Web quests Better than quizzes -PowerPoint’s were boring -don’t use laptops all the time -only use it when appropriate

**Business of Learning**
Begin with teaching teachers Summer institute – 1 week in summer Student run warranty repair shop Paid A+ Certified Early Morning Checks of Network Have Students Test Hardware/Software Have Single Model/Brand of laptop for ease of repair

Refresh Schedule Year 1 Laptops Year 2 Servers Year 3 Networks Year 4 Laptops

**1-to-1 buy in**
Teachers first, one grade pilot program after Before Visit schools AALF.com Do homework Treat as part of curriculum and not an add-on or program Hire consultant for PR Strategic planning Tell people change is tough and its not easy, things will be different

Get them on board
 * Start with administrator**

Visit and be in communication with other schools
 * Principals Second**

Not concerned with curriculum, but important to have their backing
 * Go to board**

Ask them if they want it. Surveys? Take them to conferences, other schools. Assured that they don’t need to be used all the time Need to hear it from other teachers, not tech people There will be discipline problems, but you can deal with them. Nothing new. Takes time for some faculty to buyin.
 * Go to Faculty**

Get them involved have parent(s) on planning committee parents need to know teachers support idea and share goals
 * Go to Parents**

publish frequently asked questions to eliminate rumors Its for learning not for keeping up with other schools Have several meetings and keep everyone informed Have open house Have brochures Demos FAQs

More PR Keep teachers happy cheerful tech service ongoing professional development baby steps provide classroom tools listen to their needs honor teachers who innovate Feature classroom projects feature quotes from parents, teachers, students offer other schools to visit
 * ONGOING**

Make everyone around them happy help them progress in baby steps have other teachers help and show them new things celebrate success administration might have to eventually step in and assist
 * Difficult Teachers**

Open Source Software in Education
http://www.yvelc.vic.edu.au/cd/open_source/index.html http://www.yvelc.vic.edu.au/cd/open_source/software.html monkey jam - animation scratch - programming photo story - still images to video producer - multimedia artrage - painting

Urban School of San Fransisco
[|Urban School Laptop Program] [|The Urban School] Started in 2002 450 laptops/11 servers school owned, but students treat laptop as their own never taken away as punishment 3 year cycle(laptop fees each year), seniors get new machine with option to purchase when they graduate "laptops are driven by academics not tech dept." computers are available to all whenever and wherever needed no tech for tech sake use macs allow file access from home they have dir of tech, sys admin and laptop facilitator. also have student help 22 aps, no encryption - want ease of connection use mac address authentication to limit school laptops only 3 bonded T1s, upgrading to 10 Mbps (fiber) sonicWALL firewall allot net enforcer traffic shaper block P2P has first class apple remote desktop avaya ip phones students walk into classroom and plug in smartboard cable and projector cable unpack - barcode scann all attributes (Serial #, mac address) into filemaker database STOP sticker and label software image mac images - netrestore (teacher image and student image) ASR front end by mike bombich - netrestore software - office, adobe creative suite, dept specific, printer stations in hallways, none in classrooms gives everyone an external hd for backups - no centralized backups because wireless bandwidth [|Howard Levin - Director of Technology]

MIT
[|MIT Open Course Ware]

Teachers from The Urban School In San Fran Talk About Laptops in Schools
Initial thoughts on introducing laptops (all turned out untrue) 1. distracting 2. they feel that they would need to use it to justify having laptops teaching is stronger across the board Science - Data Collection, more analysis. more than hw, tests, and lab reports. more sophisticated lab reports. more ellaborate simulations things that were difficult to do became available with laptops and powerful math software - math teacher enhance collaboration great amount of resources laptops are not allowed to be opened until told can't take notes on laptops unless told they can or they need it to do something related to class classroom management is not any different than a classroom without laptops. classroom management is a non-issue Post notes for everyone - to make sure students are taking notes not forced to use laptops/technology - think of way to use it and get support if a webpage is not going to be useful than don't make one allow students to use laptop how they see fit. maybe take notes with laptop, maybe not. help them feel more comfortable. Same with teachers. measure success by students coming back after graduating and saying they feel more prepared to do college science, real world work, etc.