iPads at PLC BYOD iPads, Years 5 and 6

Tonight’s Agenda

• The story so far: iPads at PLC Sydney • Reasons and rationale for the use of iPads in Years 5

and 6 • Rules, restrictions and expectations for their use • Suggestions and strategies for managing your

daughter’s iPad use • Information regarding AppleID, iTunes and Apps • Questions

Let’s play a game…

1970s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1930s

1920s

1980s

Think about how much the world has changed since you were at school...

Since 1990…

GPS Mobile phones

Email

The World Wide Web

Web browsers

Wikipedia

JPEG images

MP3 files

Broadband InternetWifi Google

Facebook YouTube

iPod

Mobile Internet

P2P File sharing

Digital surveillanceOnline shopping

Social Media

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things.”

Douglas Adams Author

Twenty years later and all these things fit in your pocket…

The PLC iPad story so far

• $50k grant from P&F in 2013 to trial iPads

• How can tablet technology impact and enhance learning

• Shared set of iPads in kindergarten classes

• 1:1 iPads in Year 5 (5M)

• Constant evaluation of the trial

• Professional learning for the teachers involved

Reasons and Rationale

Benefits• Instant access

• Quick transitions

• Portable and mobile

• Multimodal learning

• Independence and responsibility

• Fun and excitement!

• Increase individual student responsibility for their learning

• Provide opportunities for the embedded use of digital multimedia

• Improve learning through iteration

• Provide an authentic environment to learn digital citizenship

• Tablets have some significant advantages over traditional computing devices

•Higher levels of student engagement

•Greater willingness to take risks through a sense of play

•Multiple ways for students to demonstrate their learning

•Greater ownership of the learning process

•Normalization of the use of technology for learning

Ella Fraser

Gwen Dabaja

Rules and Expectations

• Always use your iPad in ways that are appropriate and respectful to your teacher, your classmates, your parents and yourself

• At school, your teachers set the rules on how you use your iPad

• At home, your parents set the rules on how you use your iPad.

• Charge your iPad at home every night and bring it to school ready to use

• Backup your important files regularly (Google Drive, iCloud, iTunes, DropBox, etc)

• Look after your iPad!

Suggestions and strategies for home

• Come to an agreement with your daughter regarding her technology use

• Set limits on what is acceptable - time, place, etc • Only use technology in shared spaces. Going to bed

does not require an iPad! • Be actively involved in your daughter’s iPad use. Get

her to show you what she can do! • Feel free to look through the iPad. Nothing on your

daughter’s iPad should be a secret. • You are the parent. Your say is final.

Is it ok if I…

• Put apps on my iPad? • Have music? • Have games? • Use FaceTime? • <insert question here>

It’s your iPad.

Setting up an Apple ID

• Your Apple ID is your relationship with Apple’s App Store and iTunes Store

• Your Apple ID is linked to an email address • Your daughter will need an Apple ID to install apps

and use various features of the iPad

Sign up for a free email account

Go to the App Store and “purchase” a free app

Follow the steps to create an Apple ID

Follow the steps to create an Apple ID

Follow the steps to create an Apple ID

Add iTunes Voucher credit

Add iTunes Voucher credit

Add iTunes Voucher credit

About Apps• PLC will provide voucher

codes and a $30 iTunes gift card in order to install a collection of Core Apps

• Pages, Keynote, iMovie, Garageband, Explain Everything, Blogsy + more

• Google Drive, Gmail, QuickOffice, Google Earth, iMotionHD, Google Maps + more

• “There’s an app for that”

The iPad Agreement

bit.ly/ipadagree• Read it with your parents

• If you agree with what it says, complete and submit it

• Once submitted, you can bring your iPad to school

• No form, no iPad

Questions

http://bit.ly/ipadqas