Rob Reynolds's List: 1:1 One-to-One

• I would even include writing, creating, submitting, and sharing work digitally on the computer via email or instant messaging in the category of doing old things (communicating and exchanging) in old ways (passing stuff around)

  • Does Collaborative writing count as "old stuff in a new way"?
• face antitechnology pressure from parents demanding that schools go back to basics.

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• 'd like to argue that to get to that point, the key is the student-centered classroom.  That starts with the students themselves, and empowering them to own their learning.  Utilizing digital means to get there is the key in my book, but that really can't happen until technology is ubiquitous throughout their educational journey.
• essons don't start changing fundamentally until every kid has a computer every day, and suddenly what used to work no longer does.
• if you don't want technology to be distracting, then you need to know how to use it.

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• "if you're not failing now and then, you're not being innovative enough or taking enough risks"

• Technology has not only shifted the landscape it has terraformed the world in which I work and love.  Somehow, intellectually, I have to leave the past behind and help blaze a new educational path into a world my students and I only have the faintest hint of, or hope of, understanding where we are headed together
• Technology has given me, as an educator, the first real chance to reduce my presence and increase my potential as a teacher.  
• use the power of the internet and (Chromebooks in our case) to drive

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• Demonstrating how technology initiatives are another part of a step towards the established goals of your school will help these teachers move past their initial sense of reluctance. Teachers may be more likely to move forward if they view this as the next step on a continuing journey, and not a new journey altogether.

• The first weeks and months of any 1:1 pilot are difficult. Facing each new learning obstacle with a new device seems awkward, ungainly, and not part of the normal planning process. There WILL be a moment when using technology to solve a problem actually becomes the problem itself. For example, the first time that I used dropitto.me, I failed to realize the importance of a standard naming convention. As a result,  ⅓ of the students assignments were lost. Oops!

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• Estab­lish a com­mon lan­guage about how tech­nol­ogy can enhance learning
• Estab­lish core com­pe­ten­cies
• ssump­tion that all teach­ers know how to use
• Too often poli­cies are put in place as a reac­tionary mea­sure to one incident.

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