1E, Where are we going? What is coming next?

[David Darefsky]

EBooks 

• Classrooms
• Libraries
• Devices

Glenelg has Nooks and Kindles, but hasn't found a system to tie into for books "The backend is killing us." 

3M is building a kiosk, manages devices, allows you to check out books

One school has Kindles, has a physical box full of cards with electronic books, loads books onto a particular device and checks out the device for a student - "labor intensive."

GFS - if a student expresses interest, they buy the digital book, "helps us build our collection" - "labor intensive"

Catalyst, TidalWave (TitleWave?)

Waiting for licensing changes

Encourage students to tap into public libraries (county) as they generally have ebook programs

Overdrive does audiobooks and ebooks, a little bit expensive, a little bit of a pain to setup, but once it works...

 

Mobiles

• In a classroom
• On a bus
• In a box
• With a fox

Some schools still banning them

Some using them in science because they have an accelerometer

If we're using a phone and a laptop to take all of our notes, why can't the kids?

Make the kids put them on the desk so you can tell they aren't texting under the table

Japan: 85% of web traffic is mobile

Issues of digital equity, harder for families on financial aid to pull out an iPhone

Concerns about cheating

 

Augmented Reality

They're popping up in museums, magazines

Download an app, take a picture of yourself, turn yourself into a neanderthal

Holton Arms - Lower school art display, parents snap a picture of the QR code, see a video of the child talking about their own art - have a booth where parents can check out iPads for the event

Bryn Mawr - Students use QR codes to cite their sources, instead of super-long URLs

What about using it for a self-guided tour of your campus

 

Game-Based Learning

Games to make apps and stories, sending them to parents

Students excited by them

"The iPad is the game changer" - so many apps, so easy to install them with a click, PC installation still a pain

The games have to be challenging, the games have to be fun

Elementary math game plugin for Edmodo - aligned goals for the game with the common core - teacher could "dial up" different aspects of the game

For years we've had drill and practice games in the lower schools, kids get bored.  More complex games hold attention longer.

Storykit, Toontastic - create stories with preschool kids

 

Gesture-Based Computing

Horizon report suggests this will drop within 5 years

Kids really like the Kinect

TV's now have this technology built-in (Samsung)

Microsoft making a big push here

 

3D Printing

They now have 3D printers for $500

MakerBot 

They have 3d scanners (e.g. Kinect) you can scan and replicate an object

Kids can "make real" the designs they see in their heads

Kids are going to be more invested in their product

SoliDoodle - cheap printer

FableVision, Fab At School

 

Consumer-Focused Products on our Network

AppleTV doesn't work with 802.1X for example

LanTronics iPad printer, uses Bonjour

One solution may be to have a wireless network that is more like Starbucks, Panera, McDonald's, free wireless with just internet

Put everything in the cloud, no problems with access

Cloud poses problems with sharing vs. permission based security

Policy issues with data leaking out of the organization, sending sensitive data to parents on their mobile devices

Concerns with having students have email addresses?  No major issues, and if they are on your system you can investigate, lock them down.

 

Cloud Services

It's all about setting expectations - you can use Dropbox, as long as you don't come to me when you delete something you shouldn't have

What about storing the school's intellectual property, the school's financial information

We tell teachers not to do certain things, but they don't always hear that when they need to

No real concerns about Google's data mining on student accounts from parents

Concerns about having data stored outside the United States

Have a policy, communicate it to faculty regularly (more often than you would think)

Communicate to parents of kids under 13 about consent for cloud services

 

Social Media / PLN

We need to start teaching our teachers to create their own professional learning network

We don't want to spend time going to sites to get information, on Twitter it comes to you if you follow the right folks

Summer self-guided professional program, modeled after 23 things, have faculty join Twitter, use RSS

Connections Conference - get teachers talking with other teachers, will have a PLN gallery

PLP - teachers creating a PLN working with other local schools

23things 

 

BYOD

Bryn Mawr, Bullis starting one next year

Concerns about schools going from 1:1 laptop to a BYOD, how do you convince teachers to change curriculum again...

 

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