TALKing Points: Gary Stager
2. What sort of laptop school are you?
3. Set high expectations
4. The laptops go home
5. Behave as if the laptops are PERSONAL computers
6. Children need real multimedia portable computers
7. Laptops make good teachers better
8. The network is not the computer
9. Every child's laptop is a studio, laboratory, publishing house
10. No one washes a rental car
11. Every laptop needs open ended creativity software, but less is more if fluency is the goal
12. Seize the impossible
13. That's what it looks like if students have time
14. Entire cohorts of students need to get laptops at once
15. There is zero benefit in giving laptops to teachers first
16. PD must be focused on benefitting learners
17. Work with the living and do no harm!
18. You need sustainable leadership and vision
19. expect EVERYTHING to change
20. We are done arguing!
Link: www.stager.org/handout
20 Lessons from 20 Years of 1:1 Computing
1. Who has agency?20 Lessons from 20 Years of 1:1 Computing
2. What sort of laptop school are you?
3. Set high expectations
4. The laptops go home
5. Behave as if the laptops are PERSONAL computers
6. Children need real multimedia portable computers
7. Laptops make good teachers better
8. The network is not the computer
9. Every child's laptop is a studio, laboratory, publishing house
10. No one washes a rental car
11. Every laptop needs open ended creativity software, but less is more if fluency is the goal
12. Seize the impossible
13. That's what it looks like if students have time
14. Entire cohorts of students need to get laptops at once
15. There is zero benefit in giving laptops to teachers first
16. PD must be focused on benefitting learners
17. Work with the living and do no harm!
18. You need sustainable leadership and vision
19. expect EVERYTHING to change
20. We are done arguing!
