[Year 12 IT Apps] Any School Using the Microsoft Surface Pro for teaching & learning? (James Lee)

[Lee, James q]

Hi Dinh,

We are also using the Surface Pros for Year 7s and had some positives and issues. We are expanding the program next year with a similar device (hybrid with active stylus support) to next year's mandated 7, 10 and VCE (opt in). We also trialling O365 with OneNote Class Notebooks which have been pretty good (though Microsoft cloud syncing has issues). Feel free to contact me off list for more information or to discuss.

James Lee
Head of eLearning
ICT and Humanities Teacher
 
Bentleigh Secondary College        
Vivien Street (PO Box 186), East Bentleigh 3165
Telephone: (03) 9579 1044
Facsimile:  (03) 9579 2720
email: lee.james.q at edumail.vic.gov.au




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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:46:50 +0000
From: "Tran, Dinh" <TranD at loyola.vic.edu.au>
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Dear all,

I would like to find out if there's any school in Victoria currently using Microsoft Surface Pro as a teaching and learning tool for teachers or students personal digital device?
Kind Regards,
Dinh Tran

e-Learning Co-ordinator
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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:55:02 +1000
From: Anne Mirtschin <mirtschin at gmail.com>
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Hi Dinh
Yes we are using them at Hawkesdale P12 College with our current year 8s and 9s. You can email me off list if you have questions.
Anne Mirtschin
Hawkesdale P12 College

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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:34:05 +1000
From: Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
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I have increasingly noticed teachers and students use their smartphone as a personal digital device or what we once called a PDA.  Some of my parents run a small business and it is interesting to see how they engage with these to communicate, collaborate, research, socialise and work. Perhaps wearable technology is here when we think of how we integrate and talk with our pockets.

I notice that many schools are giving up mandating a particular device in the senior years with a move to BYOD so the question about a preferred school device becomes increasingly moot. I have heard this called CYOD or choose your own device. This works when school management, web, learning systems become increasingly device agnostic and our stuff lives in the cloud.

Personally I am impressed with how my new laptop syncs data and services with my iPad and iPhone. Last period I had to jump onto a loan device, just picking up where I left off on a browser to show a student where were were collaborating on a GoogleSite for an extracurricular project to build an autonomous vehicle. He was checking our work on his phone.

At the junior year levels we mandate an iPad and later a netbook, I am curious how this will pan out over the next decade.

When all you supply is a hammer, all your problems look like nails.

Regards Roland

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