We launched our iPad scheme in September, where a small proportion of students arrived with their own devices. There have been 2 further waves of iPad distribution since then, and Santa did a pretty good job at Christmas too!
My KS3 classes have shown the greatest uptake with almost 75% of my 7s, 8s and 9s having their own iPad now. Year 10 is still at less than 50% for me and there are very few year 11s with their own devices. Upper school have possibly been 'put off' by the timescale of the scheme - 2 or 3 years - available in school.
I am now encouraging students to use their iPads for general 'written' work in class. At the moment, they have these guidelines. So far so good, but it is still early days and if you have found a better way to administrate iPad work I'd love to hear from you.
iPADS
in Mrs Wagg’s Science lessons
Please use
your iPads as an alternative to your exercise book but remember to follow these
rules:
1. Your
book must have the date and title for the lesson written into it and must still
be present in all lessons.
2. Under
the title you must write ‘work on
Edmodo’
3. Your
work on your iPad must have the same title as the lesson
4. Your
work must be uploaded to Edmodo at the end of the lesson, or on the same day.
5. Handouts
that cannot be given to you electronically, must be completed by hand and stuck
into your book
6. When
work on Edmodo is marked, you must respond to the Progress Points either by a
written message response, where appropriate, or by resubmitting the work with
the Progress Points added
7. Your
work on your iPad must be filed properly. You should have a Science folder
which contains Topic folders. Each topic folder should contain a set of
lessons/homeworks for that topic.
8. Misuse
of iPads in lessons (eg games, messaging etc) will be treated in the same way
as misuse of phones.
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