Charlottesville City Schools Starting a 1-1 Program Charlottesville City Schools

Align to Division Goals Focused on Instruction Strategic Plan Textbook Adoption How could we provide eResources?

Include ALL Stakeholders Leadership Team Representatives from Instruction, Technology, Building Administration, and Teachers Parent & Community Forums Parent University Dialogues with Staff Steering Committee Press Releases

Devices Selected Student Device: Teacher Device: Fujitsu Q550 slate tablet with stylus Teacher Device: iPads for Teachers Citrix Interface

Professional Development 3-day BLAST summer academies Overarching Questions What might teaching and learning look like in a blended environment? How does technology impact learning, especially for students? What aspects of a blended learning environment enhance, enrich, extend, and transform the learning process?

Professional Development BLAST Academy (3-day summer institute) iPad Training and Deployment Moodle training (multiple levels) Leveraging Existing Technologies Cool Tools Mobile Teaching Digital Citizenship BLAST PD sessions continued throughout the school year. Teachers attended at least one BLAST session at each PD day.

SAMR Model of Integration "SAMR, a model designed to help educators integrate technology into teaching and learning, was developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, Ph.D.. The model aims to enable teachers to design, develop, and integrate digital learning experiences that utilize technology to transform learning experiences to lead to high levels of achievement for students." Maybe add the particulars here for each of these points

Parents Training: Numerous training opportunities 45 minute group presentation Principal of school Central administration Tech Support Digital Citizenship Care and Responsibility Accountability Signed AUP and Agreement Multiple opportunities for parents to be involved and participate in training (mornings, afternoons, lunch meetings, evenings)--45 min sessions that included central office, school leadership, tech support, questions & answers--demo of device Handouts were prepared including presentations, digital citizenship guidelines, agreements (paper), AUP--anything that needs to be signed. Be accommodating to parents in that some people want to sign that evening, others just want information, & many families came to numerous meetings .

Student Training Sessions: Topics covered: Digital Citizenship Care & Expectations File management Internet Explorer/Chrome Google Apps Moodle Delivery Models: Charlottesville High Two-hour delay schedule. Buford Middle 2 days on a one-hour delay. Walker Upper Elementary Training topics were split into each subject area. Example: Math covered Digital Citizenship. Training completed at the beginning of the year--think about when new students come or transition years from different schools. Think about a process in advance Training models were customized to the school & planned by instructional technology & school admin--received support from central office staff

Tech Help Desk Established Each school has a full-time help desk technician. These individuals are able to quickly fix tablet issues and send students back to class. If a tablet needs more than a quick repair, a loaner is distributed to the student and the tablet remains in the help desk for repair. Originally, our repairs were outsourced with a 2-3 day window--fairly efficient. Costly process. Now, technicians complete the repairs themselves because they have been fully trained by Fujitsu. Saves us some money and time.

Lessons Learned Don’t overlook the impact of the teacher. Provide teachers access to the device beforehand. Provide teachers and students the same device. Professional Development and Training Must be ongoing and in a variety of structures Hardware and infrastructure must be continually monitored and adjusted to respond to the changing needs. Lessons learned slide --discuss positive impact - same device solution: Teacher are able to access the same image that the students see using a cloud solution - Citrix. PD -- face to face, group/PLC, unconference model (dynamically sessions occur) screencast and webinar We have added mice, keyboards as students need them. --classroom sets available--software modified based on what’s occurring in the classroom

1-1 Successes The rewards are immense. Increased student engagement and achievement Increase in online learning across all levels. Enhanced web-based curricular integration All students grades 6-12 have access to their own device. All SOL tests taken on student tablets.

Google Staff began using Gmail, Drive, and Calendar in November 2012. Students received their accounts in Fall 2013. Students have access to Drive, Calendar, and Sites (do not have access to Mail). Student engagement & enthusiasm has increased due to account access. Students are writing and creating on their own (both in and outside of school).

Google: Increased student collaboration and quality feedback: Nonfiction text features (6th grade) Winter poems & snowman drawing (3rd grade) Google Sites: Shared resources with students & staff Sixth grade Science CCS Going Google Training Site Simple assessments created using Forms and Flubaroo.

You’re invited! CCS will be hosting our 3rd annual Google Apps for Education Summit in March 7th-8th, 2015. We would love to have you!

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