1:1 Requires a Management Pardigm Shift

Working with students in a 1:1 laptop environment opens up many doors and opportunities for students and teachers to engage in meaningful and collaborative learning experiences. It also creates some challenges in terms of how we manage our own use, as well as student uses of the technology.

The following Blog entry and Slideshare offer some challenging questions to help us shift from a 'control' approach to more of a 'behavior management' approach:

Classroom Management in a 1:1 Enviroment Draft

Students making inappropriate choices has been something that teachers have had to deal with long before the introduction of computers in classrooms. To develop and support effective and powerful technology environments in schools we need to focus on laptop misuse as a student behavior rather than a result of having laptops in classrooms. Setting clearly defined boundaries that are applied consistently and fairly is one of the first steps to effective classroom management - this applies to using technology as well.