WRDSB Strategic IT Initiative to support student learning

1. Apple Education Leadership Institute 2012

3.  Fractured landscape, pockets of innovation
 Learning and IT out of sync
 Too much focus on tech
 Lack of IT tools, too many manual processes
 A need to understand and repurpose
“innovation”

5.  Based on manual processes
 Limited ability to leverage electronic identity
management

6.  Long (7 year) replacement cycle
 High number of desktop and laptop models in
the system
 Reduce the time needed to service computers
(number of images in the system)

7.  Change the culture in the IT department
 Align priorities with learning
 Modeling of alignment and planning
 Define key technology building blocks
 Consider systemic change impact

9.  Senior
 Consultants
 Classroom support teachers
 The Integrated Project Team
 Leverage a common language

10.  Move all sites through the change process
 Keep project timelines as tight as possible
 Maintain the same standards at all sites
 Consider sustainability implications

11.  Hardware models (and images)
 Software
 Bandwidth
 Network drops/classroom
 Wireless for all instructional rooms
 New school equipping list
 Allocation processes

12.  Create an environment that is:
 Easier to use
 Easier to maintain
 Empower the end user
 Align with learning strategies and priorities
 Factors in total cost of ownership & sustainability

13.  Improve and increase network performance
and bandwidth in a sustainable way
 Set the stage for system wide wireless
deployment
 Prepare system for a Bring Your Own Device
(BYOD) environment

15.  AD Sync
 Merge domains (group users, computers)
 Extend access to a system wide (online)
learning community (SConnect & FirstClass)

16.  Cycle reduced from 7 to 5 years
 No extra costs
 Improved model control
 Established an internal IT store
 Set up all of our Apple computers (5000) to
leverage the dual boot mode to promote
choice and flexibility for teachers

17. Image from ISTE.org

18. Image from tpack.org

19.  Aligned technology tools with our 5 high yield
teaching strategies
 Anchor charts
 Graphic Organizers
 Non fiction writing
 Critical questions
 Student exemplars

20.  Computers Across the Curriculum
 After school program
 CATC Camp (annual summer event)
 Self directed
 Aligned with our framework
 http://catccamp.wrdsb.ca

21.  Redefined “support”
 Writing and Collaboration
 Blogs, Wikis, Google docs
 Social Media
 Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
 Desire to Learn (eLearning)
 OSAPAC titles
 Focus on enabling

22.  http://catccamp.wrdsb.ca/project-planning/

23.  http://catccamp.wrdsb.ca/project-planning/

24.  Align School Success Plans with site based
CATC plans
 Phased out our Acceptable Use Procedure
and replaced it with a new Responsible Use
Procedure
 http://www.wrdsb.ca/rup
 Built a library learning commons website to
better support learning
 http://library.wrdsb.ca

25.  IT Expectations (ITX)
 Impact of mobile devices on learning (iPods)
 JK/SK iPad research
 Futures Forum Project

26.  Hot Spots (completed 2010/11)
 Every classroom (completed 2011/12)

27.  Purchased iPads and syncing carts for each
school
 Established iPads as a standard for all JK/SK
programs (FDK)

28.  Hold the course
 Maintain the alignment
 Continue to build capacity
 Continue network growth
 Shifting balance of desktop and mobile
 Full Google Apps Integration

29.  Comments
 Questions
 Discussion

30.  Phone: 519-570-0003 x4414
 Email: mark_carbone@wrdsb.on.ca
 Twitter: @markwcarbone
 Blog: http://blog.markwcarbone.ca
 Web: http://www.markwcarbone.ca