Some essential questions around a laptop program in your school.

1. Realizing Benefit of Laptops
Vincent Jansen
QAIS Heads Presentation
April 22, 2012.

2. Realizing Benefit of Laptops
• Is your school capable of sustaining the benefits of laptop
or tablet programs for learning?
• Is the school ready for change?
• Is the school prepared to hand learning over to the
students?
• How do you need to change your lessons?

3. 1. Rules
• What are the simple set of or beliefs, rules or guidelines
that define teaching and learning in your school?
– Need to build consensus
– Assign a value to them
– Define the drivers for them
– Assign leaders to them
• Sample items:
– Cooperation
– Curriculum
– Feedback
– Time
– Sports
– Learning tools (laptops, software…)

4. 2. Design
• What are some of the benefits or using these central
beliefs embedded in the activities and processes in your
school?
– Present a shared vision
– Supports change when viewed through multiple lenses
– Links activities and processes back to central beliefs
• Sample items:
– Physical space (classroom organization)
– Equipment (laptops, desktops, tablets)
– Roles and responsibilities
– Curriculum documents
– Student performance and assessment
– Professional development

5. 3. Collaboration
• All members of the school are engaged with creating
the embedded design of your school.
– Student know their roles as learners
– Students understand performance measures
– Students understand nature of being global citizens
– Communication of ideas is clear
– Every member plays an active role
• Sample items
– Shared curriculum documents
– Shared best practice using tools, class management
– Open meetings
– Faculty growth models

6. 4. Feedback
• What are some ways the design allows feedback from
all constituents in real time?
– Reinforce what works
– Everyone has a voice
– Rate and emphasize best practice
– More accountable for learning success
– Drives bottom up change, everyone on same page
• Sample items:
– Student performance success
– PD conferences reports
– Post on the board
– What’s new today

7. 5. Schema
• What are the benefits of developing a schema –
shared framework – for practice.
– Interplay of above factors in developing a shared schema
– Define interactions in pursuit of learning
– School level rather than individual, or department
– Dynamic framework vs static
Sample items:
– Remove isolation
– Remove marginalization as “tech department”
– Added value
– Self-organizing for maximum impact
– Based on constant feedback

8. 6. Technology
• How can we systematically use technology in this
teaching and learning framework?
– Students and teachers demand more technology
– Embedded design of 1:1 laptops, tablets or learning device
– Change of culture need to be systemic
• Sample items:
• Manage portfolios
• Process and workflow
• Calendars and organization
• Design and deliver curriculum
• Engage parents
• Enable research and share best practice

9. Summary
• Six components to develop unique capacity (people,
school)
• Teach, learn, communicate, feedback, create, share …
• Tools are integrated, a part of the fabric, transparent layer
• Embedded in rules, design, collaboration, schema, it’s
capacity to function is only through use of these tools
• When this happens, become self-organizing learning school
• Learning can be differentiated, personalized for measurable
effects
• Meaningful change