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Will student devices go home year one and
at all levels?
What role will Bring Your Own Technology LEARNING SPACE REDESIGN
(BYOT) have in the District for students
and teachers?
Video of Classrooms of the Future
Keys to successfully implementing include: Chismo Elementary School,
Smith Falls, Ontario, CA
Acknowledgement that 1:1 will allow and Jennifer Strickland from Chimeo Elementary
usher in shifts in instructional practice. embarked on a journey three years ago with a
Project Management to ensure plan is motivation to have students “buy into what we
manageable and executed efficiently. were selling here at school”. She started out with
Wireless infrastructure capacity must be in simple things like making painted whiteboard
tables, work surfaces and walls so students could
place. show their work with no more hiding behind books.
Ongoing teachers and administrator After her initial focus on furniture and wall colors,
training on technology standards and she explored collaborative workspaces that are
strategies. flexible in their arrangement. She also made
Build school level support and capacity things relevant to today’s student by focusing on
project based learning. She states, “Our world has
through Teaching with Technology changed---it is no longer like it was fifty or twenty
Trailblazer Program. years ago. No longer is there the teacher centered
Schools have individual needs and as such lesson at the front of the classroom. In fact many
need their own Technology Plans that align of my students would have difficulty pointing out
with rather than relies solely on the District where the front is.”
for their vision. In terms of technology, her classroom has four
display monitors in the classroom where the
teacher has the ability to mirror what is on the
Learning Spaces larger main display to the other three. Students
Educators around the world who are actively also have the ability to break into smaller groups
working within their professional learning and collaborate with one another and then share
networks, are looking at ways to help reach privately on their monitor in front of them. “We
have the ability to pass around tablets, iPads and
students who have traditionally not been devices and with one touch of a button have what
intrinsically motivated to attend or actively the student is displaying in front of them appear
participate in school. One area where there is elsewhere in the room.” She sums up her results
consensus involves updating learning spaces in in a moving statement, “I will always remember
the school so that they are relevant, inviting areas last year as the year that my students gained a
confidence in their voice and they were able to get
that allow students to interact with each other. up in front of 30, 60, 90 other students...The
confidence in their ability to share what they know
From paint colors, to modular, more comfortable is something I cannot measure. I cannot speak
chairs, to walls that can be written on, there is a highly enough of the variety of things I saw.”
push among many innovative educators to make
their classrooms and media centers more
engaging, flexible, and collaborative. The timing
Source: https://youtu.be/Ye9PrHXi4N4
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