Changing the Instructional Model with Mobile Technology

Keller ISD

Changing the Instructional Model• Joe Griffin, Chief Technology Officer• Lisa Ham, Director of Technology Integration• Vicki Hart, Technology Integration Facilitator• Carrie Jackson, Timbeview Middle School

Principal• Ron Myers, Trinity Springs Intermediate School

Principal

• Located in northeast Tarrant

county• Approximately 49 square miles• Student enrollment = 26,000

• 32 campuses

• 2,000 employees

Overview of District

• Use of technology will assist in lifelong learning for students and staff

• Provide educational technology to challenge and foster individual and group learning skills

• Strive to find new technologies to enable our students to learn more

• Provide training and support for employees to insure effective delivery of instruction

Technology Vision

Campus - Ron

How does a pilot make this happen?

Vicki

• 5th Grade iPod Touch Math & Science• 6th Grade iPod Nano Social Studies• 8th Grade iPod Touch 8th grade Math and Algebra

• Creating videos and using apps we were able to make students accountable for learning beyond the school day.

• Students were able to work at their own level.• They were able to put their homework in their

pocket and take it anywhere.

Spin the Story

• Raised the interest in school• The explored every feature of the device• Saved tons of paper!• Able to keep track of notes for class and

assignments when it was in one place.• Gone are the days of an armful of textbooks, it

is all in one place. • Student using a mobile device for an academic

purpose increased by 40% during the pilot process for 8th grade.

Teacher Point of View

• Podcasts are one of the most powerful products that a student can create.

• It requires students to research, synthesize the information, find visuals that supports the information, write a script, record the information and edit it. 

• Retention is excellent, because students revisit the information several times in an interesting and non-repetitive manner. 

Video

Future