Review The Puzzle: How to effectively implement laptops in the classroom

The Major Pieces Instructional Design Student perceived relevance Teacher Watchfulness Student Responsibility

Student Perceived Relevance The ideal lesson teaches on three levels: –TEKS (what the state thinks is important) –Core competencies (what the business world thinks is important) –Student interest (what the student think is important)

Student Responsibility Students must feel ownership in the program and should be educated to take care of their laptops! Teachers who frequently use laptops in class report fewer problems than those who rarely use them.

Instructional Design Student centered and project based Co-operative Learning Layered Curriculum LOTI

Teacher Watchfulness Laptops magnify everything. There is no “magic button” technology solution to discipline problems. You have to pick your battles and give up a little control in order to allow learning in this type of classroom. Some Specifics: –Location, location, location –Click rule –Short assignments(timers), frequent assessments

The line… PornographyHacking

Acceptable use AUP review Now you decide…

How Bad Is It? 1- Not bad at all 2 – OK at school, depending on the circumstances 3 - never at school 4 – Never, anywhere 5 – They should be BEATEN!!!!!!

Games Gameboy advance, PlayStation, etc. Flash Games Simulation games (Age of Empires, Civilization, etc.) 1st person shooter (Halo, etc.)

Violating Websense Firefox and proxies (recent changes remote control, websites) Social Networking MySpace Facebook Bebo and Meebo

Chat AIM DeadAIM Gtalk, MSN, etc. Non-installed web clients

Utilities Watchcat ObjectDock Starskin Themeschanger IMhider

File Sharing Limewire, frostwire, Morpheus, Kazaa, EMule, bittorrent Some personal web sites (php extensions)

Movies and Music Majority are downloaded at home, then brought up and shared on USB drive or IPod.