With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

What have you done to support students (or staff) that are not technology savvy?

 

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

Is [mobile] technology taught ahead of time or in class with the project?

 

 

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

How much time does your district devote to training teachers on technology?  What are the expectations for the teachers for self-learning?

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

We would like to use tech for ebooks and audio books - a few in each classroom so any child who wants/needs can use it.  How do you finance books/booksharing?

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

How do your policies extend to home use of mobile devices relating to school assignments, personnel, or other students?

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.
 

What do you wish you'd known before starting this initiative?

 

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Here's a sample video featuring one educator who shares their story in the training:

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

How long did it take for the teachers' use of mobile devices to be at an acceptable level?

 

Not all learners accept change the same way. This blog post explains the different points of accepting change, it may be helpful as you embark on your mobile initiative so you can understand where your teachers are at with accepting the new technology tools they are given. 

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

What are the some obstacles that were encountered and how were they solved?

 

 

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

As an article on THE Journal's website Launching an iPad 1-to-1 Program: A Primer references, "First and foremost, schools are entrusted with ensuring that each and every student is able to learn in a safe environment, free from danger both from within the school and from without. As schools consider providing each student with iPads, it is imperative to consider inventory management, Internet filtering, insurance, student assent, and parental consent."

Let's talk about security issues. What is your district doing to ensure a safe environment?

 

 

 

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

Have there been issues with too much traffic over wi-fi with BYOD?

 

 

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

How do you handle situations where students cannot afford BYOD?

 

 

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With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

How do you filter internet content with BYOD?

 

Administrators: Learn how you can help support your teachers with using iPads in the classroom in the webinar:
"Help! My Students All Have iPads, Now What?". Here's a video preview where the webinar presenter, technology teacher Brad Flickinger shares how his students at Bethke Elementary in Timnath, CO use iPads in his lessons.

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

Does your school’s wi-fi include a content blocker or filtering system?

 

 

Have you done a school or district iPad implementation? Now that all the logistics are somewhat under control, are your teachers struggling with how to effectively utilize iPads in the classroom? Join this webinar to learn how to set your teachers up for success by providing them resources on:

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

What type of teacher training took place for your BYOD?

 

 

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With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

How do you handle theft and damage to personal devices with BYOD access?

 

In this series you are going to learn how to program a flash file to work as a mobile device app. This will include how to use the mobile app Simulator the comes with Flash in order to test your app as if it were actually installed on a mobile device. Upon programing and testing the app, you will learn how to configure the app for deployment and use on either an Android or iOS powered mobile device. 

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With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

Did the allowance of cell phones require a change in school or district policy?

 

A recent blog post on wired.com discusses from a parent perspective why iPads (or mobile devices in general) are positively impacting education.

It is not what the technology can do that makes it important, it is the way it has re-ignited passion and ideas in teachers.

In this inspirational video, Torrence Temple—Teacher, Professor and Technology Innovator—encourages educators to work for what they believe in when faced with the challenges that come with school or district mobile initiatives.

Atomic Learning's Atomic Mobilize solution offers resources for school leaders and educators to succeed in reimagining the classroom with mobile devices. For information on how the Atomic Mobilize solution can help your iPad initiative, 1:1, or mobile learning program, visit http://www.atomiclearning.com/mobilize.

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

How has your school tackled the financing of your mobile initiative?

 

 

With all the mobile initiatives happening out there, we want to learn from your experience. Mobile Mondays will pose a common question your peers might ask when considering a mobile initiative in their school or district. Here is today’s question, talk amongst yourselves.

Do you still have computer labs?

 

 

 

A recent THE Journal article entitled Stop Buying iPads, Please discusses the popularity of iPads in education, and questions whether these schools and districts buying the iPads have a plan a place for the devices.

Let's create and publicize initiatives in teaching and learning that are supported by professional development, new curricula, authentic assessment, and yes, technology—along with all the other tools we know are part of true and lasting change in education.

Enter Atomic Mobilize, a repository of online professional development resources and planning tools focusing on helping educators realize the full potential mobile devices provide in the classroom.

Atomic Mobilize includes not only PD and planning tools, but also stories, examples and resources from fellow educators that illustrate how mobile devices can transform education and create highly personalized learning experiences for students.

Learn more.

Everywhere you look someone is using a mobile device. So, it's no surprise that educators are needing to embrace these technologies as tools to impact teaching & learning. The "Going Mobile" course will expose teachers to a variety of tools and strategies to get the most out of mobile devices in the classroom.

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