5. SI’s background
• Found in 1855
• Co-ed high school
• 1,455 students on 9 acres
• $19,800/ year
• 10 years of laptop carts
• 3 years of iPad carts
• 2 years of 1:1 iPads
6. All things being equal, the simplest explanation
tends to be the right one.
7.
8. 500 apps in 2008
850,000 May 16, 2013
June 2, 2014
9. All things being equal, the simplest explanation
tends to be the right one.
15. “Taking notes on laptops rather than in longhand is
increasingly common. Many researchers have suggested
that laptop note taking is less effective than longhand note
taking for learning. Prior studies have primarily focused on
students’ capacity for multitasking and distraction when
using laptops. The present research suggests that even
when laptops are used solely to take notes, they may still
be impairing learning because their use results in shallower
processing. In three studies, we found that students who
took notes on laptops performed worse on conceptual
questions than students who took notes longhand. We
show that whereas taking more notes can be beneficial,
laptop note takers’ tendency to transcribe lectures verbatim
rather than processing information and reframing it in their
own words is detrimental to learning.”
24. iCloud Drive ContinuityAirDrop
• One storage location
• Sufficient size, reasonably priced
• Can force sync
• Not wifi-dependent
• 3rd-party developer support
• Not cross-platform
42. University of British Columbia. "Interactive teaching methods help students master tricky calculus." ScienceDaily. ScienceD
“The key to helping students learn complicated math is to unde
61. “So what should we say
when children complete a
task – say, math problems –
quickly and perfectly?
Should we deny them the
praise they have earned?
Yes. When this happens, I
say, “Whoops. I guess that
was too easy. I apologize for
wasting your time. Let’s do
something you can really
learn from!”
74. “The Online High School is a fully
accredited, diploma granting, online
independent school situated at
Stanford University. Serving grades
7-12, the OHS prepares students
from around the world for success
both in life and in their future
intellectual pursuits.”
ore high schools become the independent bookstores to online h
Two objectives: (1) highlight ways in which the iPad can foster the evolution of Education, and (2) discuss why transformation lies in us, not technology
4th generation San Franciscan; my family has been in Alta California since the 1780s.
private school education until SFSU, MA and credential from USF
Taught at CPS & Convent of the Sacred Heart for 2-years; just finished 16th year at SI
Have taught public speaking, ancient world history, and AP Psychology. Have coached Forensics and Track. Was Social Science department chair, and am heading into my 7th and final year as EdTech
158-years (316 semesters) * 17,000 alumni = inertia
Those alumni love the 466-year tradition of a classical education — and yet demand a modern education capable of succeeding throughout the 21st century.
In our 5-years of teaching & learning with iPads, we’ve learned a few lessons; one of them is…
William of Ockham, 14th century Franciscan philosopher, most famous for developing Occam’s Razor.
As an aside…
Those are all “unitaskers” — they’re good for one thing and one thing only.
I mention this because…
1-year and 17-days been the two WWDC Keynotes: 382 days, and 350,000 new apps.
GREAT for reading a textbook, but not so hot at doing a ton of online research.
They’re perfectly fine for typing out a paragraph or two, but not so hot for that 10-page research paper.
Good for hand-written notes
Better than a laptop for note-taking — precisely because you can type notes faster than you can hand-write them
GREAT for digital arts
Procreate app
200 hours
285,000 finger-strokes
it’s always helpful to remember…
Best: both a laptop and an iPad available
Our first love…
You all know and appreciate its advantages
and we all know and despair over its disadvantages
Between these three components, Apple seems to be addressing our concerns while preserving what we have & like with Dropbox
$0.99/month for 20 GB — or $1.99/month for 100 GB
Workflow between devices is the Holy Grail.
Workflow between teacher and student does have current solutions
Networked software application for the organization and distribution of digital instructional materials.
NOT just a course website
There are dozens. All of them allow teachers to organize & post files, links, dated assignments, host threaded asynchronous conversations via forums, and digitally collected student work.
“in case of extended school closure…”
… as an aside, do you remember…
checking notebooks?
Google Drive to review student notebooks
Textbook authoring — Christina Gwin, 6th grade English at Casti
You probably know MyScript Calculator and Wolfram|Alpha
Standard form parabola; Calculus, tangent line
Evidence supports helping students “experience” Calculus
Evolutionary… not revolutionary
Our experiences with Twitter have helped clarify an important guiding question for curriculum design…
Live-tweeting the State of the Union
“In 3-minutes or less, explain neural communication”
Posted to student’s blog for peer review
To whit…
Distraction from lecture and class discussion
not our willingness to adapt to the iPad but to a changing world.
We just graduated 155th class of seniors, have 159 years of inertia. Tuition is expensive for some families — they have choices and they get to choose… have to stay viable into 22nd century
here in Silicon Valley, there’s a culture of failure…
there’s a whole best-seller on the topic
… but this next one is my favorite…
We are more comfortable applying this to students than ourselves