Apple has rolled 2 million + iPads out the door…all without “training” for their users. Think before you schedule that “Fall 2010 Staff Development Day” in your school district.
We’ve done the same thing to our teachers that we’re doing to our kids, namely conditioned them to wait for direction on what to learn, how to learn it, and how to show they’ve learned it.
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Good comments John. Food for thought in terms of professional development and where we are going with that in my district. We mandated training with technology that came in from the stimulus…which was necessary, but maybe could we approach it differently? I’m not sure your average baby boomer is very good with new technologies unless given instructions or one-on-one help.
[...] Train me. – ijohnpederson "Apple has rolled 2 million iPads out the door…all without “training” for their users. Think before you schedule that “Fall 2010 Staff Development Day” in your school district. [...]
Couldn’t agree more… Sums up what we have been discussing in my school about training policy in a far more articulate way than I’ve managed so far!
We’ve been looking at changing our professional development programme for next academic year to try and test this out. The Google apps rollout went absolutely fine with no training at all a few months ago. Seems to suggest that if the tools are good enough we can focus on the why rather than the how… Got to be a good thing.
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