St Luke's Director of ICT Jason Arruzza presented this slide show to incoming parents of 2013 Year 7 students about updates to the BYOiPad program.

1. Year 7 2013 BYOiPad
St Luke’s Grammar School
Year 7 Parent Information Evening
15 November, 2012

2. PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
• Significantly reduce weight of textbook load

3. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES
• Used as a toolset by teachers to assist in
differentiating the curriculum
• Majority of students and teachers will
increase fluency of ‘working well digitally’:
• use Internet for research and school tasks appropriately;
• Take notes in and out of class;
• Capture, edit & share images, sound and video;
• Draw/sketch/create artworks;
• Find, collect and analyse data;
• Stay organised!

4. What will it look like?
• Families will provide their Year 7 students
with an iPad for use at School
• Students will load their prescribed
textbooks onto iPads
• School-provided FAST WiFi Internet
access

5. 2013 Year 7 BYOiPad at
St Luke’s
• We are not alone: many other schools in
Sydney, across Australia and the world are
starting similar programs
• A two-year program over 2013 & 2014
• Vision: “Fully” BYOT 7-12 in 2015

6. Why iPad?

7. Why the iPad?
• excellent as an eReader
• largest market share
• most developed “ecosystem,” stable OS
• largest uptake in Schools
• robust, well-engineered device
• weighs ~600 grams
• exceptional battery life
• “instant on”

8. Procurement
• For 2013, ANY iPad will do for the program
• Source is Family’s choice
• But, St Luke’s can help with this through
CompNow
• http://order.compnow.com.au

10. iPad Pricing
• iPad 2 still available from $429
• “The new iPad” 16GB WiFi from $539
• An appropriate protective case should cost
$40-$60 depending on model
• iPad 1’s are acceptable for 2013 (depending
on condition of battery)

11. Textbook Procurement
• Science, Geography Indonesian, French,
Maths & English: Campion
• http://campion.com.au
• Art, PDHPE & History: Download from
School

12. Costings: student texts
(Savings = $337.22, or 62%)

13. Costings: Apps

14. Expectations of
Students
• Open and manage their own iTunes
account
• Come to school with a charged battery
• Have all prescribed texts and apps loaded

15. Expectations of Parents
• Support the program
• supervise appropriate use at home
• decide how to help manage student’s
iTunes accounts/purchases

16. Expectations of
Teachers
• Support the program
• Invest time in building fluency in iOS to
support teaching & learning
• Learn along with students about new new
ways of working well digitally