Disrupting Class in a One‐to‐One L t PLaptop Program

Joe Bireswww.edtechleadership.comp

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Today’s Big QuestionsToday s Big Questions

What do we know about laptop programs andWhat do we know about laptop programs and learning?

How can one‐to‐one be disruptive (in a positive way)?way)? 

How can you facilitate that disruption?

“Breaking an old business model isBreaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow th i i ti t Th ill l btheir instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by."

~ Clayton Christensen Business Week Clayton Christensen  Business Week

“Teachers have implementedTeachers have implemented computers in the mostcomputers in the most common‐sense way—to sustain their existing practices and pedagogies rather than toand pedagogies rather than to displace them.”displace them.

“Certain things, they should stay the way they are You ought to be ableway they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big l d j l hglass cases and just leave them alone.”― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the RyeRye

“Bring a tape player and a tape of a thunderstorm. Keep it hidden Sometime during the lecture startKeep it hidden. Sometime during the lecture, start the tape, stand up, claim that the professor has angered the gods and leave. Watch to see howangered the gods and leave. Watch to see how many students follow you after the tape starts playing. ”

“to succeed disruptiveto succeed, disruptive technologies must be appliedtechnologies must be applied in applications where the alternative is nothing.”

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“established companies the firm'sestablished companies, the firm s "legislative" system, or resource g yallocation process, shapes every proposal to ser e the e istingproposal to serve the existing customers better and thereby ygenerate substantial growth”

“A i i i l“An organization simply cannot disrupt itself….but a manager who p gsits one level up from the organization she wants to disrupt canorganization she wants to disrupt can set up a new organization with different resources, processes, and priorities and successfully disrupt thepriorities and successfully disrupt the old, internal organization. “

“in every organization there are forces that shape and morphforces that shape and morph every new innovative proposal so that it fits the existing organization's own businessorganization s own business model, rather than fitting the market it was intended to serve.”

Questions????Questions????

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