One to One Learning
One to One Learning with Jeff Mao
- All across Maine
- Apple supported
- Know what you want to do with your 1 to 1
- Don’t try to fit in what you are already doing
- Apple installed wireless networks
- Bandwidth was a problem – everyone wanted to be online at the same time
- Professional development is ongoing and never stops
- Teachers need upgrades just like computers need upgrades
- Important that you have a support team in-state (Apple set up a team in Maine for them)
- A device without support is useless
- Don’t log into a server – IT folks not happy
- Device needs to be:
- generic yet personal
- secure yet flexible
- customized
- stable base
- Machines need to be able to be moved when kids move schools/districts
- State-wide so all machines have the same programs
- Keep the same image for ALL the computers so that the help desk that the parents/kids can call knows the image
- All computers have a log in and out time stamp
- Teachers have iChat, but kids don’t have access
- Maine educators want to enable it, but there is a lot of resistance from the community
- Kids, teachers, and admins all have a different color background color
- good for techs so they can walk around and see the backgrounds and know the log in rights of the user
- good for users so they know if they are logged in correctly
- Digital Hub
- access
- productivity
- creativity
- communication
- collaboration
- All students have email – can set it up for school only
- In contract that no student will be without a device for more than 24 hours
- All students can back up work to an off-site location
- Repair center in state
- In contract that the battery lasts a school day
- We need to help teachers move from one level to the next easily
Until next time ~ Danita
