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Mobile Devices in the Classroom Nassau County BOCES May 6, 2011

Mobile Devices in the Classroom Nassau County BOCES May 6, 2011

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Page 1: Mobile Devices in the Classroom Nassau County BOCES May 6, 2011

Mobile Devices in the ClassroomNassau County BOCES

May 6, 2011

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Agenda

Topic PresenterPlanning, Assessment & Methodology

Tom Franson

Assessment of Infrastructure & Security

Ken Wygand

Support Tom & KenProfessional Development Lisa Nielsen

Note: Our discussion assumes the District has a strategy to address whether devices will be supplied to the student population or students will be permitted to use personal devices.

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More Pressure Than Ever

2%2%Staying Staying AheadAhead

49%49%Falling behind

Falling behind41% Barely

41% BarelyKeeping Pace

Keeping Pace

8%8%Not Not

addressing addressing mobile mobile devicesdevices

Team Skillsets becoming obsolete

Communicating with “screenagers”

Educators adopting new

tools/technologies

Accelerated rate of technological

change

“Cloud” computing and virtualization

Maintaining control/security

Lack of clear direction for the

future

*April 2011, HDI SupportWorld

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Planning and Assessment

Planning will be the single most important task you will undertake in deploying mobile devices to the classroom

Key Considerations

•Begin with the end in mind

•What do you want to use mobile devices for?

•Consider the content and your use patterns

•Compare and evaluate devices

Device WhiteBoard

MS Office

Google Apps

Email StudentInfo. Sys.

Instruction Apps

iPad B B A A B B

Droid C B B A C C

Cell phone D D C B C D

Tablet B A A A B B

Kindle Test Test Test Test Test Test

Nook Test Test Test Test Test Test

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Planning and Assessment

• Once you have established the instructional objectives and narrowed down the devices, the assessment task becomes one of determining integration into your existing infrastructure

• An infrastructure integration assessment includes:– security– data transfer– content filtering– virus protection

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Methodology

Conducting the Assessment

Define Instructional Goals

Evaluate Devices & Align With Instruction

Evaluate Infrastructure; Change & Prepare As Needed

Develop Support & Professional Development Plans

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Foundation – Infrastructure & Security

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Infrastructure – Coverage

• Predictive Site Surveys– “Best Guess” approach

• Relies on building construction information you provide (Concrete, brick, steel, wood, glass, drywall, etc)

• Hard to consider things that may move around (i.e. bookshelves in library)

– Predictive survey is helpful but will not guarantee levels of coverage

• Actual Site Surveys– Guaranteed coverage areas – Locate sources of interference

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Infrastructure – Bandwidth

• What does your wireless network need to support?– How many client devices in each area?– Traffic Behavior

• Basic video (pre-recorded)• Streaming video (real-time)• Multipoint video (interactive)

Stream

5 Mbps10 Mbps

802.11n 802.11g4

2

28

14Source: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns394/ns348/ns767/white_paper_c11-513840.html

Number of Streams Supported per AP

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Security – Plan

• First step is to develop a wireless access policy– Who should be able to use the wireless network and for

what purposes?– Should users be allowed to connect with their own

devices? • How do we ensure those devices are “clean”?

– Should you (or can you) enforce a restriction on what applications and data is accessed via the wireless network?• Freedom of Information• Lines are blurred between what is “good” and “bad”

– Facebook, Blogs, YouTube

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Security – Enforcement

• Once security policy is defined, you can use technology to enforce the policy– Secured communications channels (e.g. WPA2)– “Guest” wireless access

• Best effort level of service?• Enforce your wireless use policy

– Consider end-user “ease of use”• Smartphones will tell you when within range, provided the SSID is

broadcast– If you are not “broadcasting,” how will end users find the wireless

network?

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Support

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Support

• Establish a support strategy (before deployment!):– Mobile Device Management (MDM) should be a central

feature– Clearly define your scope of support – publish what will

and will not be supported– Establish a knowledge base to allow users to self-resolve

common issues– Establish escalation paths into service providers

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Professional Development

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PD Methodology

• Engage teachers in creation of learning plan to meet PD goals

• Customize curriculum and pd materials• Create opportunities to understand how to innovate

learning• Coach/ Model how to innovate learning with

technology• Apply knowledge with expert guidance and support• Reflect/Evaluate effectiveness in innovating learning

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PD - Assessment

• Administrative buy in — Incorporated in teacher observations

• Assessment– Student– Teacher

• Student and Teacher Assessment Rubric– Assess self– Conversation tool (coaches & advisers)

• Where they are• Where they want to be • How to get there

– Students and teachers usually not at the same level

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PD - Students

• Students as partners– Professional development

• Participate• Lead

• Student support teams– Students in each class– Meeting

• Elective or after school

– Special privileges

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PD - Develop Your Personal Learning Network

• Twitter– Tagging– Mentioning– Collaborating on projects using g-docs– Sample

• Facebook– Locate experts – Pages– Tagging– Links– Conversations

• Classroom 2.0 / Future of Ed / Ed PLN • Your own network

– Ning, Group.ly, Wordpress • Blogging

– Read, Comment, Launch

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PD - Showcase Success

• Share work of school — Innovation Field Trips

• Share work of classes — Innovate My Class

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Key Takeaways

• Planning is key to a successful implementation• If you already have wireless today

– Perform an assessment of it’s capabilities– Determine its current utilization

• Leverage new technologies (e.g. 802.11n)• Invest today for what’s coming tomorrow

– Post-PC era - Learning happens with people, not places• Devices are mobile and cannot be tied down to a cable• Establish a Support Strategy prior to deployment

– Clearly define what is and is not supported– Publish FAQ’s and support phone numbers for vendors

• Professional development makes it happen– Administration must provide opportunities and assessment– Teachers must own goals – Partner with students– Develop a PLN– Showcase work

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