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1:1 Learning 1:1 Learning - When Have You “Arrived”? Whether your school is still planning 1:1 implementation or started when 1:1 was a “laptop program,” there is value in knowing what it means to “arrive” at success. What does “arrival” look like? How do we measure success? Conventional wisdom says 1:1 implementation requires a clearly stated rationale to support the time and money investments and to assist with program evaluation. One common reason for going 1:1 -- schools need to reflect the “real world outside of school” where technology is ...

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1:1 Learning Five Steps for Implementing a Successful 1:1 Learning Environment: Step 1: Define the Goals of your 1:1 Program: A 1:1 environment should be the goal of every learning institution; however, this is not about devices, it's about access. I imagine every school superintendent, principal, and teacher would agree that it is in their best interest to provide their students with the best access to the most current, scholarly information available. There is no doubt that this idea is embedded in every school's mission statement. So let's dig a little into the question ...

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1:1 Learning 1:1 and School Culture Our high school is starting the tenth year of having a laptop for every student and teacher. Maine has been fortunate, in 2002, Governor Angus King proposed a visionary project; a digital learning initiative - all students in Grade 7 have a laptop to use in school and at home. In 2004, our district chose to continue the plan into high school. When we rolled out , we didn’t have any models to refer to, but we knew this project had to be about good teaching and learning. Our journey has been an ...

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1:1 Learning The 1:1 Dream Team Bloggers What do New York, Singapore, Sao Paolo, Michigan, Australia, Minnesota, Turkey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, India, Costa Rica, Japan, Netherlands, Canada, Texas, Scotland, New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, Peru, Iowa, South Korea and Spain all have in common? They’re where our 1:1 Hot Topic bloggers live and work! We have Oscar Beceña, who oversaw the largest One Laptop Per Child project worldwide, in Peru sharing his eagle’s eye view. Nick Sauers hails now from Georgia and has dedicated countless ...

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1:1 Learning How will you prepare for your 1:1 classroom this year? In just a few weeks, students will be heading back to school ready to rock and roll. Whether you have been in a 1:1 classroom or you are just beginning your journey, here are a few tips to help you get ready to start new learning: Twitter Hashtags: Using the in Twitter, you can find some great resources by using a hashtag. You don’t need to have a Twitter account. Hashtags are the words with a # sign in front of them. They help organize the vast amounts of information on Twitter. One of the ...

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1:1 Learning Five Ideas Essential to 1:1 Learning Success It’s no secret that successful 1:1 learning goes beyond simply getting devices into the hands of students and teachers. Many schools have had 1:1 programs long enough that challenges have been identified. However, valuable solutions exist that can be put into place to help ensure such challenges don't get in the way of a successful 1:1 learning implementation. Here are five ideas essential to 1:1 learning success 1) Student, not device, driven Start with students and learning, Put them front ...

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1:1 Learning Five reasons cell phones benefit a 1:1 environment Go into any office today and you’ll notice that 1:1 does not exist. To operate effectively in today’s workplace, at the very least, a 2:1 environment, with a computer and a phone, is required. It’s likely that there are one or two other devices in use as well. This is the world for which we have to prepare today’s students. Not only is it beneficial to support students with their success in school environments that look like real-life environments, it is also beneficial to schools. Here’s why:...

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1:1 Learning Collaborative learning in a one-to-one program Computer-supported collaborative learning tends to make use of either hardware of software as mediating tool in collaboration. Early work with computers and collaborative learning made use of the fact that there would be only one computer in a classroom and looked at how this could be used to encourage children to work together. Nowadays, in an ever growing one-to-one learning environment in classrooms, students have the opportunity to use a wide range of collaborative tools, anywhere, anytime ...

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