Implementing 1-to-1 technologyJust 12 of the mistakes I’ve made

Dominic NorrishUnited Learning

1. Starting with the answer, not the question

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Why would you ever consider doing anything that didn’t directly contribute to your educational aims?

2. Paying lip service to consensus building

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Change this far-reaching will not succeed when imposed from above

3. Investment in tech not matched in people

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Even the best technology cannot transcend poor teaching. It will still be poor teaching, just faintly lit by blinking blue LEDs

4. Failure to fully embed a ML culture with staff

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You’re asking teachers to take a huge risk, with their own time and their students’ learning. Is passive resistance a surprising reaction?

5. Skating over issues of eSafety & behaviour

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Regardless of how unreasonable people’s fears about technology are, perception is reality

6. Going too fast

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This is only worth doing if done extraordinarily well, and that requires the patience, precision and persistence of which undue haste robs us

7. Tackling infrastructure 1 bottleneck at a time

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Large scale mobile device deployments will ruthlessly expose infrastructural flaws one by one

8. Choosing a device based on the ‘work stuff’

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If you want a child to take care over, charge, lug around, remember and – crucially – pay for a device, it better do more than homework

9. Apps & content over ecosystem & workflow

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@deepexperience (Greg Hughes)

95% of device use in classrooms will involve 5 or 6 core applications, the rest are a side-show

10. Thinking that 1 device fits all sizes of learning

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Are the same skills needed at KS1 as at KS5? Is the same device likely to be perfect for them?

11. A perverse rejection of ‘the old ways’

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Just because PowerPoint has become a byword for rubbish ICT lessons, does that mean productivity tools are worth less than creative ones?

12. Failure to build on what we know about learning

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“Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil”.