Student Laptop Program at Saint Ignatius

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Student Laptop Program at Saint Ignatius
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Did You Know?

• I was unable to find a downloadable (and
  embeddable) version of the new Did You Know
  presentation, but here is a YouTube link
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vpMcfrLYDm2U

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Did you know?

• We are currently preparing students for
• jobs that dont yet exist,
• using technologies that havent yet been
  invented,
• in order to solve problems we dont even know are
  problems yet.

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Why students should have laptops

• Did You Know?
• Competing and collaborating in a global society
  requires flexible, powerful tools new
  literacies of the information age
• JSEA 2020 Vision
• Laptops can help meet challenges posed by 2020
  Vision
• ISTE NETSS
• Laptops can help meet challenges represented by
  ISTE NETSS
• Equity
• All of our students should have access, as a
  matter of fairness

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JSEA 2020 Vision

• Challenges us to
• create new learning cultures in which students
  gain the skills to become life-long learners and
  schools become learning centers for both teachers
  and students
• integrate systems thinking, model making, and
  problem solving in the teaching-learning process
• emphasize skills and methods of teaming at all
  levels in the school
• foster creativity, imagination and metaphorical
  thinking in learning
• encourage flexibility and risk-taking in the
  acquisition and creation of knowledge
• build interdisciplinary connections
• maximize technology's potential for enhancing the
  educational process
• http//www.jsea.org/jsea.aspx?pgID910

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JSEA 2020 Vision

• SI acknowledges that
• Technology is an integral part of students
  lives, and will remain so. Our students require
  classroom experiences that embrace these 21st
  Century learning tools.
• SI agrees that
• We are committed to providing an educational
  experience commensurate with the changing nature
  of the world and the increasing technological
  integration, in accordance with Ignatian values.

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JSEA 2020 Vision

• How do we meet the challenges posed by 2020
  Vision?
• We must bring the power, flexibility, and
  possibilities of personally accessible computing
  into the teaching and learning process. We
  propose to do this is by integrating one-to-one
  laptop computing for all students.
• Student laptops enable
• access to up-to-date, primary source material
• methods of collecting, evaluating and recording
  data
• ways to collaborate with other students,
  teachers, and experts around the world
• opportunities for expressing understanding via
  images, sound, and text
• learning that is relevant, and assessment that is
  authentic to their anticipated college and work
  experiences and
• training for publishing and presenting their new
  knowledge in modern formats.
• organization of learning materials

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ISTE NETS for Students

• ISTE International Society for Education in
  Technology (www.iste.org)
• NETS National Educational Technology Standards
  for Students (NETSS)
• What students should know and be able to do to
  learn effectively and live productively in an
  increasingly digital world
• http//www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/NE
  TSforStudentsStandards2007.doc

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Other Reasons

• Equity
• All students should have access to these
  revolutionary tools
• Marketing
• Compete with other schools for students

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Following Ignatius Example

• Ignatius was a quiet believer in new
  technology. It wasnt long before Ignatius death
  that he approved the purchase of an expensive
  state-of-the-art printing press for his schools
  in Rome. Ignatius realized that the lecture
  format he experienced during his years as an
  adult made students passive learners. Books, he
  believed, would create a more active student
  learning environment. http//www.regis.edu/regis
  .asp?sctncamp1wpp2sps
• Student laptops merely extend Ignatius vision of
  an active student learning environment.

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Key Questions

• Tech Committee developed list of
  questions/concerns that we will need to answer,
  along with some possible answers (see handout).
• Many of these questions are inter-related

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Timeline

• Targeting August 26, 2009 for rollout to Class of
  2013

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Our Plan for Success

• Two-pronged plan
• Educational Preparedness
• Establish educational goals and requirements
• Assess faculty needs
• Develop Professional Development timeline
• Prepare faculty and students
• Hire Educational Technology Specialist
• Technology Infrastructure
• Establish technology goals and requirements
• Assess existing technology
• Develop technology timeline
• Implement required technology
• Hire necessary support personnel

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What we need to succeed

• Specific things we need from people in this room
• Open minds and a willingness to learn together
• Open and constructive feedback
• Patience with the process