Leveraging the Success of One-to-One Mobile Computing:

The SSDZ Project

Creating Success For All Learners

Essential 21st Century Skills for Canadians

Essential Skills are the fundamental skills that make it possible to learn all others. They are enabling skills that help people participate fully in the workplace and in the community. They are:

• Reading Text • Document Use • Numeracy • Writing • Oral Communication • Working with Others • Thinking Skills • Computer Use • Continuous Learning http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/hip/hrp/essential_skills/essential_skills_index.shtml

A View to the Future

When we vision for technology supported learning, we have to project ourselves five years forward, then look back from there to ensure we make the right decisions today to get us there

When you consider the tech-savvy generation we are already dealing with, our challenge to remain relevant may seem daunting

Their world – “Web 2.0” – is a world of social networking, wikis, blogs, YouTube, and always-on personal devices

Web 1.0, Web 2.0 – Huh???

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Authoritarian Democratic

Passive Active

Static Dynamic

Closed Collaborative

This is the Digital Generation

Edutopia - YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG7wyTW74W0&p=64580A98F0BC9107&index=1

Our Challenge

Key Question: How can we enable an environment that embraces the collaborative world of Web 2.0 without risking our core services or the safety of our staff and students?

Things to Think About

Our staff have become increasingly aware of the potential for technology use and, like the rest of society, increasingly dependent upon technology.

Technology is a foundation stone for everything we do – it is difficult to think of a WCPS function or process that is not reliant on our excellent technology infrastructure

Our students have changed - we will see increased demand to support access to new, interactive, sometimes personal, technology that will represent significant planning and deployment challenges for WCPS – “School 2.0”

Three Choices: We can either try to ignore these changes, react and accommodate them, or embrace and leverage them.

We live in a globally connected society

21st century learning is all about preparing young people to become caring, competent Canadians with the knowledge, skills, and attributes to be

successful global citizens

Our vision is to create Excellent Learning Environments that ensure we meet our

mandate to prepare our students for adult life.

Excellent Learning Environments

1. Outcomes are clear to the student.

3. Where are students relative to the outcome…a pre-

assessment phase?

10. Final evaluation based on authentic compilation of

assessment devices.

5. Revisit outcomes to think about Instructional design. (Learning styles, complexity of outcome, hidden skills, etc.)

2. What evidence will show that students have met the

outcomes?

11. A plan to assist students when the outcome is not being met… a new course of action.

4. What does good learning look like? (Rubrics and exemplars)

6. Selection of input structure for new knowledge.

7. Giving students an opportunity to interact with new knowledge.

8. Giving students an opportunity to experiment or use new knowledge.

9. Constant assessment feedback so students can modify learning efforts.

12. Classroom structure, peer relationships, culture of school and student strategies for their more independent or collaborative learning .

But…

raised in a media rich networked world

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self-empowered tech savvy

highly connected

collaborative

skilled communicators

innovative

have to realize that online choices have offline consequences

underdeveloped sense of risk and responsibility

lack an adult perspective on safety, responsibility and general citizenship

They Need to be Good Digital Citizens

The Development of the SSDZ ProjectStudent-Staff-Device-Zone

We saw this as an opportunity to explore ways that we might overcome the two major hurdles preventing expansion of the One-to-One project in its current form

1. One-to-One is high maintenance!2. Buying laptops is expensive!

The SSDZ project is about “Network Access Control” – allowing students to connect with their own devices without jeopardizing the WCPS network

SSDZ

The project initially involved ESLCHS having the potential to impact 800 students at our pilot school.

The design approach addresses phased scaling these benefits to all Wolf Creek schools.

Today – the SSDZ is being made available to all Wolf Creek Schools

Technical Design of SSDZMultiple Ways to Connect:• WC Secure

– Configured for Wolf Creek domain laptops• WC SSDZ

– Student/Staff devices preconfigured• WC Guest

– Captive Portal• WC Presenter

– Only available when needed

Connecting to the SSDZ is Different

Requirements:• Wireless Capable Device• Existing Windows Account• Permission into the SSDZ Group• CyberGateKeeper Agent Software• Several Authentications (logins) for

security reasons

A World of Options Is Out There!

• The use of personal devices is not limited to laptops. There are a variety of personal devices that can be used in the classroom for support.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUQLIPdtg8&feature=player_embedded

Examples of Potential Use of Assistive Technologies in the Classroom

• The Flip Camera• The iPad for Autism• The iPod in the Classroom• SMART Board Uses

Questions?