netbooks in k12 education
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This is the powerpoint I presented in the recent webinar for AT&T.TRANSCRIPT
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students!
Netbooks in K12 Education
Mary LasicaAT&T Education Specialist
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students!
Netbooks:
21st Century teaching and learning environment for students
and teachers
Resources for different student learning styles
Synchronous learning when students are off campus
Digital divide solution
Filtered Internet access
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! 21st Century teaching & learning environment
Netbooks = affordable + portable + digital
What resources do you want students to
access on netbooks? What resources do you not want them
to access?
Will students need to access these resources on or off
campus?
If students are going to use netbooks extensively off campus,
will they need to meet online with teachers or other
students?
Types of resources
Online learning systems (such as Moodle or Blackboard)
Digital textbooks/digital resources supplied by textbook publishers
Internet research resources
Authoring tools for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, audio, and video
Communications applications such as email
Social networking applications
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! 21st Century teaching & learning environment
Aren’t students accessing all of these already? What makes
this 21st Century teaching & learning?
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! 21st Century teaching & learning environment
Visual (spatial)
Aural (auditory-musical)
Verbal (linguistic)
Physical (kinesthetic)
Logical (mathematical)
Social (interpersonal)
Solitary (intrapersonal)
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! different student learning styles
How can netbooks allow students to have their own space?
Creating : Examples, videos, research projects, diagrams, poetry, music, dance
Evaluating : peer editing, reflections after projects, testing
Analysing : finding key points, differentiating from other work, sorting, categorizing
Applying : writing, speaking, exercises
Understanding : Writing, discussing, responding, summarizing
Remembering : Repetition, creating materials as study aids, exercises
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! different student learning styles
Taken from Andrew Church Bloom’s Taxonomy Digital http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom's+Digital+Taxonomy
School site based students - Allow time to process material while being linked to learning resources
Home/hospital based students - Connect them more significantly to school based resources, or other home/hospital based students
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! different student learning styles
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! synchronous learning options
We are currently using
AT&T Connect, which is
available for licensing at
your district
Up to 200 participants
Audio either through
telephone or computer
Option to record
Hold classes, group sessions, study halls in which students learn in a more traditional synchronous manner.
Orient student to specific goals at the same time
Offer staff support in technology and professional learning communities
Hold meetings/classes when campuses are closed
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! synchronous learning options
Marine life in our bay
Share presenter rights with students
Mute the audience as a whole when instruction requires
Poll/survey participants
Take Q&A in text, or allow students to question freely
Break out sessions available
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! synchronous learning options
Response to Literature: The Good Earth
What is the number of troops currently in Afghanistan?a.30,000b.50.00c.100,00
There are two components priced:
Audio-per minute
Web- either per minute or a flat rate of $15 per account. Accounts are needed for all presenters. Attendees are not required to have accounts and can log in to the web interface.
There are no charges for audio if all audio is done on the computer (plugging a microphone in for the presenter to use, with audio coming out of speakers). Students would also not be tying up home/hospital phone lines.
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! synchronous learning options
Students can use netbooks on school networks by plugging in to the network or using wifi access.
If students need access off campus, there are several options:
Plugging in to their home network (wired or wifi)
Accessing the internet at a library, community center, or other business (wired or wifi)
Accessing wireless broadband through a services provider like AT&T. A SIM is inserted into the netbook to access this service
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! digital divide
If your school is looking at a netbook solution without wireless broadband, there is no need to go through a service provider like AT&T.
To provide home Internet access to students who would not normally have home internet access, the cost of that access needs to be built into the total cost of the project.
Why wireless broadband with internet access?
This solution can be deployed quickly
This solution continues to work for students with multiple residences (joint custody, etc.) and students that move more frequently
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! digital divide
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students!digital divide
General cost structure estimates for netbook with monthly wireless broadband (Internet)
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students!digital divide
Cost of Netbook
Cost estimate of Monthly Wireless Broadband
Full price Netbook $500 $40*
*200MG of data per month. Solutions using APN and other technologies will add to monthly costs
The cost of wireless broadband will possibly limit the number of students receiving home access provided by the school district. Here are some students that are being targeted in pilot studies:
Hospital/homebound students
Virtual school students
At risk populations that have demonstrated desire to succeed (increased school attendance, improvement in grades, participation in special after-school programs)
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students!digital divide
Some districts have voiced concern about giving K12 students unlimited Internet access at home. The solution provided by AT&T can either route the netbook broadband wireless/Internet access to the school network (which is already filtered to community standards) or to another filtered Internet solution.
Options are also available to have email accounts provided to students with options to filter for offensive language and block email from outsiders.
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students! Filtered Internet Access and email
The AT&T Netbook solution can be deployed to minimize impact to district IT departments
The netbook image/applications loaded can be coordinated with district but deployed by AT&T
If the district network is currently at capacity, the AT&T solution can provide other filtered Internet/email options
Create a Virtual Classroom Space for your Students!
Part of the planning: What standards for student behavior will the district set in regard
to netbook use on and off campus?
Will teachers have time to build the virtual space needed for these types of programs to have an impact on student learning? Can some of this happen at a district level?
What type of tech support will be needed for students using these netbooks on campus and at home? Is there a student training program included by the netbook manufacturer?
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For more information:
Susan [email protected]
Mary [email protected]
Steven [email protected]
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