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Goals:
 * 1)  O bserve and respond to the implications of mobile learning deployment in schools

Outcomes:
 * increased awareness of how schools are approaching the resourcing of mobiles devices for learning
 * articulating reasons for and against the use of mobile devices in schools

Task 1: Exploring Equity
 * **1:1 Computer Devices at Orewa College, NZ** || **1:1 Netbook Devices in Tamaki, NZ** || **1:1 iPad Case Studies, Victoria Department of Education, Australia** ||
 * All year 9 students to bring a 1:1 computing device to school in 2012 with iPads being preferred. || A 1:1 netbook programme for all year 5-13 students in decile 1 schools in the Tamaki region, known as the Manaiakalani Project. || Various Victoria Department of Education iPad trials providing mainstream and special needs students with iPads. ||
 * Resources

The College's own information page: http://www.orewa.school.nz/content.php?page=166&depth=1

Article in the NZ Herald: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10739485

Article and reader comments on Stuff: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/5304084/Schools-iPad-requirement-divisive

Interview on Radio NZ with Dr David Parsons: media type="custom" key="10378678" || Resources

Extending Wireless to Students: http://www.nz-interface.co.nz/articles.cfm?c_id=36&id=1203

Call for laptops for kiwi Students: http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/call-laptops-kiwi-students-4363169/video

more to come here... || Resources

http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/ipad-education-case-studies/10-warringa-park-school

http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/ipad-education-case-studies/3-manor-lakes-p12-specialist-college

http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/ipad-education-case-studies/5-ringwood-north-primary-school

http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/ipad-education-case-studies/6-royal-childrens-hospital-education-institute ||

The case studies above compare three different scenarios. The Decile 9 Orewa College situation was widely publicised and debated in the media recently with suggestions it would create a inequitable two-tiered educational system of the have and have nots. Compare this to the Decile 1 Manaiakalani Project where parents want and are committed to providing a netbook for their child to take to school. Contrastingly, the third scenario shows a government initiative funding the exploration of mobile devices in teaching and learning.

Your task...

1. Compare and contrast at least 2 of the above examples of mobile device deployment in schools. As you do so, consider a number of other questions:
 * What are the benefits and issues associated with each student having their own mobile device at school? What are the issues?
 * If you faced having to fund a device for your child to use at school, how would you feel?
 * Whose responsibility is it to provide mobile devices? Family? School? or Government?
 * It it fair for schools to expect this? It is fair that some schools are providing this approach to learning and not others?

2. Select one or more of the resources below to further your understanding of the use of mobile devices in schools.
 * ** Abdul Chohan: One-to-One Mobile Device Deployment in a School ** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDARPjUeOKM
 * **Pockets of Potential Exec Summary** http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/Reports-23.html
 * **On limiting learning and impairing comprehension with mobile technologies** http://artichoke.typepad.com/artichoke/2011/03/on-limiting-learning-and-impairing-comprehension-with-mobile-technologies.html
 * **Health Dangers of WiFi in Schools** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKyL_brkY5U

3. In the Group 4 Activity 2 discussion forum in Stream, compose a brief yet succinct letter to the Board of Trustees of the fictional **//E-Trends Institute of Learning//**. Outline your support **for** or **against** the proposed plan to require all students to have an iPad from the beginning of 2012. Your letter should include:
 * at least three clear arguments to support your position
 * make good use of the ideas and concepts included in the case studies, resources above, and/or your own sources of information
 * and be written from the point of view of either a student, parent or staff member.

4. Respond to a letter written by another course participant...