What matters, and what’s really worth doing

Exploring issues around personal technology provision

Bruce DixonCo-founder Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation

Founding Director of ideasLABbdixon@aalf.org

“BYOD is one of those things that keeps IT managers awake at night”The Age May 3 2012

Perspective•My alignments, biases and intent

www.ideaslab.edu.au

bruce@prestondixon.com

Perspective• My alignments, biases

and intent

…and Context• What have learnt in 22

years?• What is working..what

is not?• How homogenous are

we, how homogenous are the answers?

• Where are you really at? DER?

Are we there yet?…

Pioneered in Australia in the 90’s, the Tipping Points came firstly in 2003, with the Maine whole state public school initiative, then with Affordable computing in 2006.

Pioneered in Australia in the 90’s, the Tipping Points came firstly in 2003, with the Maine whole state public school initiative, then with Affordable computing in 2006.

I believe we have an obligation to make this available to ALL our

students.Ron Lake

Regional Director Loddon Campaspe, Vic

This is not a privilege, but EVERY child’s Right

Miguel Brechner FreyPresident, LATU (Laboratorio Tecnologico del Uruguay), Uruguay

www.aalf.org

Something to celebrate…

Policy/Model Options

Student brings any computer

Student brings any device

Student has one core computer which is

mandated

Student has core device, plus any

number of additional devices

Funding Options

Government pays total cost of computer

Parent pays total cost of own student’s own

computer

Parents co-contribute to the cost of a computer,

+ optionally other sources

Parent pays total cost of computer purchased

through the school.

Fourteen questions

to consider around

effective 1 to 1

deployment programs

How well do your

teachers manage

technology?

…theirs and their students?

…how consistent is

that across your staff?

Question #1

Does your funding model

ensure all students will have

equal access to learning resources?

…is your model equitable?

….is it both sustainable, and scalable?

…be very wary of funding of last resort.

Question #2

What is the most common

learning modality

across your school?

….teacher-directed or student-centered?

..make sure technological

imperatives don’t get ahead of pedagogical

realities

Question #3

How will software

licencing be managed?

…home vs school licencing?

…how are costs impacted by various ownerships

models?

..upgrades?

Question #4

How are stakeholders

within the school

community involved in

developing the model?

…making the ‘right’ technology decisions

who are your stakeholders?

…what decisions should they be involved with.

Question #5

Who is going to be

responsible for maintenance

of student computers?

…vendor/3rd party, students?

…lifecycles?…how much resources

will the school allocate to this?

…data loss and recovery?

Question #6

To what extent will

‘extra’s’ such as extended

warranty and insurance be mandated or

optional?

…how will SLA’s & KPI’s be managed?

Who is responsible for loaners, lemons

and losses? .

Question #7

To what extent does

policy determine what is on students’

machines?

…games policy, social media?

…school space,

personal space?

Question #8

Who will be responsible

for managing compatibilitie

s, images, viruses and

security?

…school or students?.

Question #9

Who is responsi

ble for staff

computers?

…tracking expenses and

costs?

Question #10

How do you develop criteria to clearly define your student’s personal

computer requirements?

… who defines the functions specifications?

…what justifies anything less than a personal portable computer?

…what role does price play?

how does this limit your choices?.

Question #11

How far do your

HelpDesk services stretch?

… how to manage costs?

…how to resolve issues between student-owned

and installed software and

school- owned and installed software?

Question #12

To what extent is

your students’ learning

self-directed?

…who makes the decisions around what,

when and how the students

learn?

Question #13

Do you have the expertise,

resources and budget to

effectively manage a variety

of technologies across a variety

of platforms?…MDM-8

…timing is everything.

One final

question…

Emerging web technologies provide an “architecture for

participation”..how open have we really been to what they make possible?

Universal 1 to 1access is …• challenging traditional approaches to

how we learn.• challenging our assumptions about

classrooms and teaching.• challenging our assumptions about

knowledge, information and literacy. Is it really?

Unprecedented opportunity to

re-imagine Teaching & Learning

Whole System Reform

Knowledge

What’s now possible?

What really matters is..

We now have the technologies we need for transformation;

available, affordable and manageable

Ubiquitous access to modern technology

now makes it possible for student learning

outcomes that are broader, deeper,

more relevant, more complex,

and more creative than

we could ever imagine.

We mustn’t let anything get in the

way of making this a reality for all

students.

I

“My own philosophy is revolutionary rather than

reformist in its concept of change. But the

revolution I envision is of ideas, not of

technology.

It consists of new understandings of specific

subject domains and in new understandings of

the process of learning itself. It consists of a

new and much more ambitious setting of sights

of educational inspiration. Prof. Seymour Papert

Mathematician, Scientist, Educator