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Mobile Technology for Students
 * We have a wireless bubble.
 * We have hi speed internet.
 * We have students bringing machines to school.
 * We have a real demand to use labs and pods, that cannot be met.
 * We have seen what is available in terms of learning, in 1:1 laptop, iTouch, iPad technology (and it is stunning).

THE FUTURE IS MOBILE TECHNOLOGY We can’t change our pedagogy to leverage the world of learning available to us over the web and it's applications because we cannot access the technology, for all of our students, all of the time. So we digitise existing teaching, starting it up a bit here and there when we get the chance.

media type="youtube" key="24R1QJAXL4s" height="349" width="560" That all of the students at Orewa College have and bring their own iPad to school. Start at year 9 in 2012 - all students will bring an iPad to school (and roll through the school in subsequent years). Give the opportunity for Y8 and Y7 students to opt into the programme and set up iPad classes at these levels, taught by teachers wanting to learn and try a new teaching pedagogy.
 * Proposal **
 * How **

**Why iPad**? Reliability The Applications available The Mobility

=**What now**= Start the process now, Research (Wiki) Will have to start to professionally develop the staff involved. Get Staff an iPad now and get them started with training and visits to schools already using this technology.

=**The students**= =We need to give families a heads up NOW.= Families need advice and questions need to be asked and answered. Buy or flexi rent their own. The school may provide a **//lease to buy//** option for some students through our master lease scheme with Equico. Students will be given a “stationery list of apps” to purchase for their iPad in lieu of the usual Stationery list. This list will be generated from the staff involved, who have been given PD and had the chance to explore over the next 6 months. Whatever else they purchase is up to them.

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