Supervising Devices with Apple Configurator. Five Tips for Supporting iPads in the Classroom. Preparing Your School for an iPad Implementation. Planning is imperative for any technology initiative - iPad or otherwise.
You need to ensure that you clearly understand and communicate how the technology integrates with your overall pedagogical objectives. Too many institutions purchase technology and then search for ways to utilize it ... or leave it collecting dust on the shelf. Planning needs to consider both infrastructure needs and the educational applications of the new technology. Without the proper preparation, technology initiatives are liable to become expensive failures.
Campus Infrastructure Considerations Signal Strength: If you’re using wifi iPads then you’ll need a strong and reliable connection to the web. Pedagogical Considerations: Pedagogical Models:Have you discussed how the use of iPads will be integrated into your educational processes? Your iPad implementation plan requires careful thought and preparation. iPad Implementation at PLC. Pain and Remedies of Sharing iPads in Schools. There is no end to the uses of the iPad in education.
I’ve discussed that ad nauseum on this blog. As a learning tool, it has the potential to make a great positive change to learning. The only problem is Apple designed it for individual use. Schools are designed for ( or budgeted for) shared use. Conventional wisdom is for iPad use to occur in a 1:1 or BYOD Environment. If you have your own iPad, privacy, safety and security boils down to deciding to use a passcode to lock your iPad screen and, if required, being connected to your school’s network filtering system.
In our situation, the iPads are mainly for the students but I have assigned each of the iPads to a teacher for overnight borrowing. Our school has had issues with using a proxy server with iPads since we’ve had them. However, a new issue has arisen, albeit with a solution already worked out. The intial workaround is to go into Safari settings and clear the History and Cookies. Four Reasons Why School Tablet Rollouts Can Stumble - Or Fail. Nothing's perfect.
In creating my map of the 120+ back-to-school iPad and tablet deployments this fall, I learned a few things about what can cause trouble for schools and students. These are good lessons for businesses and other types of organizations thinking about going mobile. (Check out my list of the 100 Largest iPad Rollouts, which with my recent research has become very school-heavy). 1) Deploying iPads - and then doing nothing else. My colleague John Fontana - he writes the ZDNet blog on privacy technology, Identity Matters - is stridently unimpressed by the iPad deployments at his son's high school. "They talked about cutting edge, digital natives, blah, blah, blah. "Anyway, no text books, no apps, no home work, no digital assignments happened on the iPad all year," he continued. There are multiple sins here: an old-fashioned mindset, a lack of integration into the curriculum and evidently no training for the teachers.
You can even create your own e-textbooks. 5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make With iPads (And How To Correct Them)