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Getting Attention
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This design has been popular for many decades and serves classroom lecturing fairly well, but effective teachers will ask students to move furniture around to meet lesson objectives, since some arrangements serve particular learning goals better than others. Constructivist learning activities, for example, thrive when furniture is not arranged in rows as it is for didactic lessons.
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Culture is yet another topic neglected by those who believe equipment will transform classrooms and learning. Success with a room full of laptops requires attention to attitudes and norms. The behaviors of students will either support or undermine the learning depending upon the classroom culture.
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edvorak1This article explores the dimensions and characteristics of such classrooms, identifies the chief challenges facing teachers in such space, and suggests moves, tactics, strategies, tricks and scaffolding designed to optimize student learning.
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dls016Managing learning in the laptop classroom requires considerable savvy. This article explores the dimensions and characteristics of such classrooms, identifies the chief challenges facing teachers in such space, and suggests moves, tactics, strategies, tricks and scaffolding designed to optimize student learning.
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juggler, a student, a news reporter or to anyone else you think might enjoy it.
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Susan StansberryThis article describes the factors to be considered in a 1:1 instructional environment: lesson objective, content and design; classroom landscape; classroom culture; teaching moves, strategies, tactics and procedures; equipment; and assessment procedures.
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a) social isolation, (b)
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The class began with all seats facing forward. The teacher points to a chart on the white board showing fastest times for 8 different furniture arrangements in this class (list). She holds up a stopwatch.
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While there is now software available to allow such monitoring from the teacher's computer, most teachers must rely upon a technique we will call eyeballing.
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when I need the full attention of the class for 5-10 minutes, I will ask them to swivel around and join me. They turn their eyes forward on me and the screen
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A teacher who ignores landscape in laptop classrooms is likely to encounter difficulties with classroom management.
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Attentio
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2-3 year professional development offering that would focus on equipping all teachers with these moves, tactics and strategies
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laptops as just one element within a complex array of tools that extends to mundane items such as blackout curtains and chair
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online research, productivity tools, drill and practice, and eCommunications
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were the most frequent uses of compu
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teachers need opportunities to learn what instruction and assessment practices, curricular resources and classroom management skills work best in a 1:1 student to networked laptop classroom setting.
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Over the years we have seen little time or funding devoted to professional development (PD) that might equip teachers with the skills required to make smart and productive use of new technologies. What little PD we have seen was devoted mainly to the learning of software and how to operate the latest toys. We have too often placed carts before horses.
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An effective teacher will move about the room when students are working on laptop challenges, checking, monitoring, assisting and intervening or supporting as necessary.
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Example 4: An effective teacher will announce a coming shift of activity with enough time so that students can wrap up what they are doing. "In two minutes I will be asking you to turn around and join me for the next activity."
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Example 5: An effective teacher will ask students to "shut laptop lids" when laptops would not prove useful. Sometimes a single laptop shared by a pair or trio works better than one-on-one. Sometimes a group discussion is best served by cooling laptops.
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Example 6: An effective teacher will call for complete attention prior to demonstrating a series of instructions. "I need 100 per cent eye contact now."
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Lauri BradyOver the years we have seen little time or funding devoted to professional development (PD) that might equip teachers with the skills required to make smart and productive use of new technologies. What little PD we have seen was devoted mainly to the learning of software and how to operate the latest toys. We have too often placed carts before horses. Managing learning in the laptop classroom requires considerable savvy. This article explores the dimensions and characteristics of such classrooms, identifies the chief challenges facing teachers in such space, and suggests moves, tactics, strategies, tricks and scaffolding designed to optimize student learning.
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Beth Hartranft"Managing learning in the laptop classroom requires considerable savvy. This article explores the dimensions and characteristics of such classrooms, identifies the chief challenges facing teachers in such space, and suggests moves, tactics, strategies, tricks and scaffolding designed to optimize student learning."
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Virginia GlatzerOver the years we have seen little time or funding devoted to professional development (PD) that might equip teachers with the skills required to make smart and productive use of new technologies. What little PD we have seen was devoted mainly to the learning of software and how to operate the latest toys. We have too often placed carts before horses.
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Dianne KrauseOver the years we have seen little time or funding devoted to professional development (PD) that might equip teachers with the skills required to make smart and productive use of new technologies. What little PD we have seen was devoted mainly to the learning of software and how to operate the latest toys. We have too often placed carts before horses.
Managing learning in the laptop classroom requires considerable savvy. This article explores the dimensions and characteristics of such classrooms, identifies the chief challenges facing teachers in such space, and suggests moves, tactics, strategies, tricks and scaffolding designed to optimize student learning. -
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Over the years we have seen little time or funding devoted to professional development (PD) that might equip teachers with the skills required to make smart and productive use of new technologies.
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Would it not be more encouraging to witness the spread of thinking schools and questioning classrooms? Our goal is to grow young thinkers. This is not about laptopping children. It is about educating them.
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Darcy GoshornOver the years we have seen little time or funding devoted to professional development (PD) that might equip teachers with the skills required to make smart and productive use of new technologies. What little PD we have seen was devoted mainly to the learning of software and how to operate the latest toys. We have too often placed carts before horses.
Managing learning in the laptop classroom requires considerable savvy. This article explores the dimensions and characteristics of such classrooms, identifies the chief challenges facing teachers in such space, and suggests moves, tactics, strategies, tricks and scaffolding designed to optimize student learning. -
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Jim ErwinExcellent article by Jamie McKenzie on pedagogy related to using laptops in the classroom for effective learning.
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We begin by establishing learning goals, and then we identify the activities most likely to carry the day
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What works well with a second period class may fail when tried with a different group at the end of the day.
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At times during this unit on media literacy, all books and all laptops will be shut
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a technique that brings the class together with eyes forward
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The teacher has their attention
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open your laptops and work as pairs to critique and analyze this same ad frame by frame. I want one of you making a list of techniques on one of the laptops while you use the second laptop to watch the video
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the teacher is clear about purpose and intentions
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At times students will work solo on separate laptops. At times they will team in groups of six sharing just two laptops.
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effective teachers will ask students to move furniture around to meet lesson objectives, since some arrangements serve particular learning goals better than others. Constructivist learning activities, for example, thrive when furniture is not arranged in rows as it is for didactic lessons.
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It takes the students less than a minute to change the room to match the learning activity
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On some days the teacher may allow students to keep laptops open to consult research done in previous classes or to take notes
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A major theme of this article is the importance of teachers being able to see the students' screens when they are working on challenges and tasks assigned by the teacher
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most teachers must rely upon a technique we will call eyeballing
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eyeballing would help me know how to pace the lesson and would allow me to pay attention to those in need
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ask them to swivel around and join me
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a group discussion, in which case, they will swivel around and face each other in one large "C" shaped grouping
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turn with laptops on laps because they have important work just completed that they might need to share
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A teacher who ignores landscape in laptop classrooms is likely to encounter difficulties with classroom management
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Responsibility
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ponsibility
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Not all students walk into class prepared to work through activities in a manner that respects the norms outlined by the teacher
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The teacher must identify those students who lack such commitment and confer with them through the year, nudging them toward responsibility
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Persistence
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set the expectation that students will develop good new ideas, not just scoop and smush, copy and paste
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Allison Hartinteresting article.. links to many other related resources
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8 different furniture arrangements
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8 different furniture arrangements
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Pedagogy does matter, but it has been pretty much ignored during the design of PD offerings
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(a) limited physical space, (b)
cumbersome furniture, (c) poor technology infrastructure,
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