Parent+Information

The Parent Information Pack includes detailed information on caring for the device, their educational benefits and the opportunities they present for their child.
 * Parent Information **

Answers to some common questions asked by parents are detailed in the document such as: > As teachers, it will be useful for you to also understand how you can answer these questions when asked by parents. See examples below:
 * What is a 1:1 device?
 * What can a 1:1 device do?
 * What educational benefits do 1:1 devices provide?
 * How do we look after the 1:1 device?
 * We already have a laptop. Can my child use that?


 * [[image:Ipad.jpg]] || **Why an iPad.** * Small.
 * Light
 * Robust
 * Reliable
 * Has built in camera and video
 * 10 hour battery life
 * The Apps! The Apps! The Apps! ||

**What is a 1:1 device? **

A 1:1 device (for our purposes) is a portable computing device that can connect to the web and hence the Orewa College Ultranet. It is capable of READ, COLLABORATE, CREATE activities.

**What can a 1:1 device do? **

1:1 devices provide anytime, anywhere access to information and learning. Through a device, a student can complement learning that takes place in the classroom using software programs, referring to resources that have been downloaded onto the device, or working with audio, picture and video files that have been saved. Students will have broadband access at school. You do not need internet access at home for your child to use the device.

**What educational benefits do 1:1 devices provide? **

1:1 devices complement the existing school curriculum by providing digital learning tools that link with planned classroom activities. Wireless access points at schools will foster collaboration and teamwork, allowing students to search for information together and share the learning experience. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">A 1:1 device use in the classroom will evolve as students and teachers become familiar with the new tools. For example, we may soon see a class where students create a podcast for their original poety, accompanied by a soundtrack they have written and enhanced with their own digital images to share with the world.

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"> How much and how to finance?

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"> RESEARCH <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify;"> Specifically, the benefits for students who have open and consistent access to ICT as relates to their education are as follows: > Tablet computing and mobile devices promise to have a dramatic impact on education. This Ning network was created to explore ways iPads and other portable devices could be used to innovate education. > <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">[|http://ipadeducators.ning.com] **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">We already have a laptop. Can my child use that? ** Absolutely though will not have access to Apps will have access to Internet and the Ultranet.
 * //__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Motivation and engagement: __//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> Web 2.0 technologies enable social networking practices connecting our students in groups to support learning, which improve motivation and engagement. These factors lead to powerful learning that meet students’ needs in a range of contexts and at a range of stages of learning//. (Stevenson’s (2008) thesis, (Ako Aotearoa, 2008; Franken et al., 2005)//
 * //__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Students are more likely to review and rethink their work and thinking __////<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Producing work digitally allows students to act more effectively on feed back given by teachers and peers to enhance their thinking and output. Even using tools like spell check and punctuation checks take students through a thinking, learning and decision making process.
 * //__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Independence and personalised learning __////<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">: //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> Personalising learning means students are more motivated to continue learning outside of the classroom because they have access to support when it is needed. Some 2009 e-Learning fellows’ experiences through their blogs demonstrates this //well (see// [|//http://elearningresearchnetwork.ning.com/page/efellows-1//]//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> ). //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> The work showing using blogs for developing student writing, is a case in point. Research shows that students regularly read each other’s postings as a means of developing their own work, and even when they lost notebooks, their online work was still available ( <span style="color: #444e71; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Web 2.0 applications (such as blogs), mobile devices, Interactive White Boards and other equipment can be useful in supporting personalised learning, as well as students’ existing knowledge of online socialisation protocols which can help them successfully navigate online relationships (Lewin, Mavers & Somekh, 2003; Lewin, Somekh, & Steadman, 2008; Wan et al., 2008).
 * //__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Collaboration in wide contexts, including international ones __////<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">: //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> The on-going production of student podcasts videos writings and integration of other ICT’s point to the power of group, national and international collaboration, and audiences in motivating students to learn.
 * //__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">Access to information, resources and experts __////<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;">: //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12px;"> This is one of the strengths of ICT’s, because they make information and knowledge quickly and flexibly accessible. Students can manipulate and navigate such texts in various ways that suit how they might prefer to work. These texts (whether electronic, written or human) can be interpreted, analysed and reformed by learners, because the technologies exist which allow them to mash and mod the texts, creating new ones for real, but cyber audiences. In these ways, students can become producers and publishers of their own texts.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: left;">Year-Long Pilot Study Focuses on iPad-Only Algebra in the Classroom <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">[]“I have students who are participating in this class who did not participate in their previous math classes, so it does engage them. Is it going to make them all brainiacs and straight-A students? No, it’s not going to do that. But it will keep them engaged.”
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">I Pads in Education a bit of a home page with Wiki and discussion <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">"A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank...but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child." -- //Forest Witcraft//