1 to 1 in second level

[John Hennessy]

Hi All

As a teacher in school I'm looking for some help. I know there are a
some 1 to 1 projects in progress. I'm interested in any work on 1 to 1
at second level (whole school / junior / TY / leaving) in Ireland or
elsewhere. Interested especially in personal experiences, general
points and rationale for or against.
Any research references would also be useful.
I don't recall much on this in CESI list but may have missed a ton.

Thanks

[John Hennessy]

Hi All

To give more detail on this we have a 1 to 1 programme at senior
level.
The opinion of the science teacher group in school is that it has been
the single most effective step in ICT integration in our long
experience. It just works. But we would like to put this in context.

Could anyone contribute ideas, opinions, experiences or arguments in
this area?
Is 1 to 1 attainable? Is it necessary? Is it advisable? Is it poor
practice in some contexts?

Thanks

[Gerard Logue]

What is 1 to 1?
I never came across this before!
Can somebody pls point me to a website?

Hi All

Thanks

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[Ban Ryan]

Hi Gerard

Could the links on @cybraryman's website help?
http://cybraryman.com/1to1schools.html

Ban
Sent from my iPad

[Gerard Logue]

Thanks Ban, I get it now. One laptop per student - lots of pros and cons
there!

[Janice Conway]

To be honest, I've seen both sides...
It's a nightmare to do a supervision class of study etc when they have
the laptops as you know that the chances are they're not working on
academic stuff...however by using packages like remote desktop, this
can be monitored and I have curbed their use of anti-academic website
via the remote desktop and observing the students screens via my
own....I only had to do it for about two weeks at the start and then
every so often now...as soon as they see me taking out my laptop they
presume I'm looking and it's not worth the laptop being confisicated
(which is was the ICT co-ordinator does if a report of misuse is
reported)...the laptop is then confisicated for a period of half day
to two days depending on the offending website that was accessed...

Due to it being a boarder school, we can't use a blanket block of
websites. We have facebook blocked but even at that the students have
found ways around the block to access it...so nothing is student proof
for 100%!

On the positive side, I've enjoyed the benefits of asking higher order
questions and if the class struggle to answer it, then out comes the
laptops and the students research the answer. It has allowed for more
collaboration virtually via Moodle assignments and projects.
It allows for ease of access to learning especially for those who have
different learning styles - some students may type notes in class as
we work through a topic, others use the traditional way of pen and
paper...for those who have special needs and may struggle with
spelling etc, typing the notes ensures that a spell check can be done
and that the student will then study from notes that are at least
spelt correctly!

It's also worth pointing out that Coursework A for Junior Certificate
Science can be typed - it does not say anywhere that they have to be
handwritten. So the development of portfolio's being printed off with
the diagrams being hand drawn allows for insertion of relevant
websites and you tube URLs onto the experiment sheet that the student
can study with in the future for the exams....

Also, the Ag Science Farm File can be typed - again a great positive
for those students who "forget" to bring in their files etc....it's
all on their laptop which they bring to class every day.

The laptop is synced onto the school server so a backup is provided -
also by using tools as dropbox, it limits the compulsory lab work
sections of both junior science and leaving cert science courses being
"lost" etc....

Overall, I would be very pro-1:1 schemes...

On Mar 24, 9:02 am, "Gerard Logue" <glo...@loretomilford.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ban, I get it now. One laptop per student - lots of pros and cons
> there!
>
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> > Could the links on @cybraryman's  website help?
> >http://cybraryman.com/1to1schools.html
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> > Ban
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> >> What is 1 to 1?
> >> I never came across this before!
> >> Can somebody pls point me to a website?
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[Adrienne Webb]

Hi John

I've just come across this site in a tweet and think it might be what you are looking for.

http://1to1schools.net/

Cheers
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[John Hennessy]

Thanks to all for contributions

All the best
John He

On Mar 25, 12:23 am, Adrienne Webb <awebb1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John
>
> I've just come across this site in a tweet and think it might be what you
> are looking for.
>
> http://1to1schools.net/
>
> Cheers
> Adrienne
>

> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:48 PM, John Hennessy <john...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All
>
> > As a teacher in school I'm looking for some help. I know there are a
> > some 1 to 1 projects in progress. I'm interested in any work on 1 to 1
> > at second level (whole school / junior / TY / leaving) in Ireland or
> > elsewhere. Interested especially in personal experiences, general
> > points and rationale for or against.
> > Any research references would also be useful.
> > I don't recall much on this in CESI list but may have missed a ton.
>
> > Thanks
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[Emer]

From a tweet from Stephen Heppell - who suggests that 1 (laptop) to 3
or 4 (students) might be better than 1 to 1:

Don't need one child per iPad . Learning comes from the conversations
around these devices http://tinyurl.com/48qfsha

I'm inclined to agree generally that students learn best grouped
around a device together - and develop all kinds of other skills at
the same time - but I can see the value in 1 to 1 for certain
activities.

Emer

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[Laurence Cuffe]

On Mar 29, 2011, at 08:18 AM, Emer <emer....@gmail.com> wrote:

An interesting model is the "pilot-co-pilot" model. Here two students share a machine. One student who has control over the keyboard, is the pilot and drives the machine, the other student is the co-pilot/navigator and tels the first student where to go and what to do.  Much of the learning happens when one student is explaining to the other what to do.

 

Students do take turns, but may not touch the mouse or keyboard unless they are the pilot!

All the best

Laurence Cuffe

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[Mags Amond]

Nice take on Cooperative Learning Laurence...

What I find works well is A=Keyboard and B=Mouse, that way they really have to interact to get anywhere, if there is a C she is the screenreader and sits in the middle. They switch roles on my cue (or one of theirs) if the class or project is very long..

Is anyone else using Cooperative Learning in the IT room?

Mags

I seldom have students working alone at PCs anymore - the work completed is much better and it means I am less frazzled, it's much easier to visit fewer work stations.

[John Hennessy]

Congratulations to Stephen Carey, science teacher in Belvedere College
on his excellent presentation to the Inventorium (a Digital Education
Symposium in the Science Gallery) last night.

He referred to the Bridge to College programme (http://www.suas.ie/
b2c.html) where student group and team work is promoted. Project work
is based around group use of appropriate tech tools.

So does 1 to 1 go against this approach? Nope. In lab or classroom
everyone has a device but usually only 1 is used among 3 students.
However, once group work concludes then each student has full access.
Other tools are shared in a similar way. Like video production in
digital creator - work as a group but with individual accountability.

All the best

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[marion mcginn]

I attended this event as well. Stephen gave a great talk. A very
interesting event that I would highly recommend.

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[pixievondust]

I think the 1 to 3/4 works well for laptops/desktops but the iPad is
mostly a personal device and a recent study (I have to dig it up)
seemed to suggest that it wasn't good in the classroom *because*
children couldn't take it home, personalise it and make it their own.
If they can share while taking their own devices home and retaining
autonomy in that sense then I'd agree. In an ideal world of course
children would be mixing team building skills, group work centred
around laptop/IWB/blackboard/piece of paper and independent learning
with their own personal devices. Time to dump the individual desks
lined up in rows I think.

On Mar 29, 8:18 am, Emer <emer.now...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From a tweet from Stephen Heppell - who suggests that 1 (laptop) to 3
> or 4 (students) might be better than 1 to 1:
>
> Don't need one child per iPad . Learning comes from the conversations

> around these deviceshttp://tinyurl.com/48qfsha

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[Bernie Goldbach]

Hi,

Speaking from experience, our family iPad rotates from one 3yo with jam-coated fingers to her mom with a bump who reads current affairs to me who reads books on it. We share the device, unlike bowls of ice cream. I think the expense of the iPad mandates its communal use if it's brought into schools.

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[Steven Camara]

Hi All,

I read this article recently, reasonably short and well worth a look.

The author is countering some anti 1:1 arguments with a look more at
how a 1:1 program should be implemented in order for it to have any
chance of delivering real change in the way that education is being
delivered.

If you're stuck for time then just read pp12-14. Here the author
outlines 6 components that they see as vital to the success of any 1:1
program (or indeed any program that seeks to change any education
sector)

Steven

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[Steven Camara]

Including the link in that post might have helped :)

http://escholarship.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1193&context=jtla&sei-redir=1#search=

[John Hennessy]

Thanks Stephen and others

These references introduce just the kind of discussions we need

John He

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> http://escholarship.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1193&context=j...

[Donal O' Mahony]

Thanks for that article Stephen - it is interesting, placing laptop
initiatives (indeed any educational initiative) within the planned and
organised cognitive environment of the school.

And Yes, John - this is the discussion badly needed as more and more
teachers are given technology with little understanding of the
educational possibilities for teaching and learning....

[Neil O'Sullivan]

This is a very interesting Article indeed and I can see parallels with the elearning school plan and road map which was launched and introduced to Principals last year. The elearning plan is a good place to begin and perhaps views in the light of this article.

Neil 

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