Tablet PC Training

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What is it ???

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• Hewlett Packard Tablet PC

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Tablet PCs at School

• Training Sessions

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Tablet PC Training is
Needed

• Teachers need to learn
• to effectively utilize emerging technologies
• to improve teaching and learning
• of standards-based curricula
• in their classrooms

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Tablet PC Training is Needed

• Tablet PCs are computers
• with significant differences in
• how they are operated and
• their new integrated applications

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Tablet PC Training is Needed

• Instructional problem
• Teachers lack knowledge and skills to fully
  utilize this new technology

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Tablet PC Training is Needed

• Goal
• to improve student learning through use of
  innovative technologies

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Tablet PC Training is Needed

• Teachers will gain
• knowledge, skills, attitudes about their tablet
  PCs
• a comfort level using tablet PC
• unique features to enhance teaching and learning
  in the classrooms

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Tablet PC Training is Needed

• Training Goals
• 1.  To properly train educators on tablet PC
  hardware and software use
• 2.  To implement tablet PCs seamlessly into K-12
  classrooms
• 3.  To utilize tablet PCs for improved student
  learning
• 4. To maximize the potential inherent in tablet
  PCs

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Tablet PC Training
Analysis

• Teachers have basic technological literacy
• Participants are highly motivated
• Teachers are active participants in their
  learning

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Tablet PC Training
Analysis

• Preference for hands-on interactive learning with
  just-in-time assistance
• Learning increases with spontaneous sharing of
  problems, insights, ideas for classroom
  integration
• Lack of free time to learn implement new
  technologies during school year

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Tablet PC Training
Analysis

• Introduction short small-group hands-on summer
  session tablet PC distribution
• Independent study of tutorials and practice
• Full day preschool training focus on
  standards-based curriculum integration

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Tablet PC Training
Analysis

• Periodic sharing sessions during school year
• End of year presentation of each participants
  Best to entire staff
• Participants will help train other teachers who
  receive tablet PCs during the following summer

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Tablet PC Training
Design

• Training teachers to use tablet PCs as an
  effective classroom tool to improve teaching and
  learning
• Hands-on Learning
• Immediate Feedback and Guidance
• Collaboration
• Everyone Learns

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Tablet PC Training
Design

• Instructional Objectives
• Summer Training Interact with and Learn about
  special features of Tablet PCs
• Tutorials Practice
• Preschool Training Integrate Tablet PCs into
  standards-based curriculum to improve teaching
  and learning

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Tablet PC Training
Development

• Hands-on practice
• Authentic hardware and software
• Interactive Activities demonstrations
• Constructivist activities

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Tablet PC Training
Development

• Learning Activities
• Large group
• Small group
• Collaborative
• Individual Self-Paced
• Assessment Performance-based

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Tablet PC Training Instruction

• Interactive Video Demos
• Flowcharts Instructions
• Research on Video on Demand
• Internet Resources
• Learn objectives by hands-on experiences

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Tablet PC Training Instruction

• Hands-on activities after each step
• physical and mental manipulation
• practice targeted outcomes on tablet PCs
• Immediate feedback and guidance from instructor
  peer input
• Sound instructional design built on Blooms
  Taxonomy

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Tablet PC in the Classroom

• Annotate or add ink comments to student papers
• Connect to a projector the ultimate whiteboard
• Write Underline Highlight - Draw on
  PowerPoint slides to emphasize key points.
• In slate mode - maintain eye contact and move
  around the room to facilitate collaboration.
• Web resources

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Tablet PC Training Instruction

• Conclusion
• Training checklists and rubric
• Lesson plan enrichment assignment
• Plan for sharing meeting
• Satisfaction Survey

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Tablet PC Training

• Evaluation

• Formative Evaluation Plan
• Overview of instructional design by curriculum
  director
• Giving tablet PCs to two teachers with no
  training to test whether face-to-face instruction
  is necessary, and
• Small-group tryout of prototype training to
  determine changes that need to be made

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Tablet PC Training

• Evaluation

• Summative Evaluation Plan
• Administration will require the incorporation of
  the tablet into one lesson for review.
• Regular meetings to share successes, challenges,
  and ideas
• Evaluation
• Needs Assessment

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Tablet PCs

• Run same applications as desktops
• But have
• Unique design
• Unique interactions
• Unique applications

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• Technologyis NOT Beneficial

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Tablet PC Training

• Teachers will be trained
• To use this new technology
• To deliver content
• To improve teaching and learning

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Tablet PC Training

• Brought to you by

• Arlene Krueger and Michael Lynch

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