Notes from Session at iPadpalooza
#iPlza13
Presenter: Sandy Kendell, Educational Technology
Specialist, Georgetown ISD
Session
Description: iPad infused and enriched teaching and learning can take
place even if you can’t put an iPad into the hands of every teacher and student
in your school. Kim and Sandy will share the organization and outcomes of
various iPad implementation models that were piloted at campuses across
Georgetown ISD during the 2012-2013 school year, including how we planned,
provided professional development, managed iPads and iTunes accounts, and
lessons learned from our experiences.
Session Website:
Resource Documents:
Lessons Learned:
1. PD is necessary
·
Even
for basics
2. iPads are hard to share - but it's doable
·
Think
about how you are going to get images and files off the iPad.
·
Will
you be using email, dropbox, etc?
3. Teachers need their own iPads
·
They
need one they can experiment with and use personally.
·
They
have to get used to the technology first and learn how to adapt it for
themselves.
4. Follow up with teachers frequently
·
Plan
for time to talk with the teachers and not just by phone
5. Space out implementations
6. Consistent iPad names are critical
·
If
you haven't thought about a naming convention, you need to
7. Apple IDs can be messy
·
Teachers
have an apple ID through their district email account.
·
Teachers
can't use a personal apple ID on a district device.
·
Reason:
If apps are purchased by the district, then they would be lost if downloaded on
a personal account.
8. Think through distribution and pick-up
9. Clearly communicate the Why and the How
10. Major iOS updates are never convenient
Stages of Implementation at Georgetown ISD:
#1:
Title I Schools
·
Each
school gets 13 iPads each
·
Focused
on reading and math intervention students and those were the teachers that were
trained
·
This
is where the first pd came in; 6 hours total; first 3 hours on basics
·
The
team went out to see what the teachers were already doing in the classroom first
·
They
picked some basic apps to set up on ipads for them
·
The
teachers did not have their own ipad (they shared) and they were using their
own personal apple id's
#2
Various Schools Purchase Small Sets
·
Usually
between 5 to 15 iPads
·
Started
with elementariness and middle schools
#3
An iPad for Every Teacher
·
The
team met face to face with each teacher for at least an hour to show basics
·
All
other training is online
·
If
teacher is not comfortable with online, they could request face to face
training
·
They
don't have any carts to manage the iPads at the campus level
·
iPads
must be dedicated and teacher must have dependable access to them
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