Another thing was that what we do as teachers, and what we ask them to do with the Chromebooks really needs to be relevant to them. And I think the work that we’ve done on PLPs I always think that and present that to the students. What they’re doing is relevant and they feel that.<\/p>\n
We revised the incident log. We started using it and quickly realized it wasn’t so great and quickly revised it. That was in the first week or two. And now it’s really a very good system. The team I’m on, we’re committed to using it pretty religiously, and I can tell you that sometimes when I have a student maybe leaving a Chromebook or something like that, I say<\/p>\n
You need to do this, or I’ll have to record it in the Incident Log<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
and right away, boom, they do it. It changes their behavior and gets them back where they should be going.<\/p>\n
Also, we went to 1:1 and the students also, after a period of time, like six weeks, we allowed the students to take them home, and I think that was a huge piece, because they really liked to take their Chromebooks home. So them ever losing the ability to take their Chromebook home, they really don’t want that to happen. That was a big piece of what\u00a0came out of MGI.<\/p>\n
Data Findings<\/h2>\n
These were some of the data findings in the research I did. For the first question I really just wanted to get a read on how comfortable the teachers in our school were with using Chromebooks, because it’s going to give me a window and insight into how they feel. Overall:<\/p>\n
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I think we have a mostly positive attitude as far as using the Chromebooks in our school, and I’m very pleased with that.<\/p>\n
Another question that I had was “Do you feel the students are using their Chromebooks appropriately in class?” Because as much as you try, while you’re teaching in class you can’t see what they’re doing on those screens all the time. But if you’re going to use them, you’re going to really have to trust the students as well, because you want the lesson to move and you want them to learn certain things.<\/p>\n
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Just from my read on the school, having 56% of the teachers feel that students are using their Chromebooks appropriately in class is a huge improvement over the year before. Combined with the “Sometimes” numbers, that’s about three-fourths: three-fourths of the teachers feel that the students are using them appropriately. I see that as pretty positive.<\/p>\n
In terms of who responded to this survey, most of the teachers in my school responded. This consists of the exploratory teachers, our special educators — everyone in the school did get the survey. We still have a little bit of work to do here, but this is definitely an improvement.<\/p>\n
Another thing I looked at was whether the students are more compliant as compared to last year:<\/p>\n
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\nThis can be something like: sometimes in my classroom I just want to get a quick assessment, so, “Go on your Chromebook,” ten minutes of assessment, close the Chromebook and move on. And when I ask them to close the Chromebook, I expect the Chromebooks to be closed. I shouldn’t have to repeat myself often, so we can move on and go the next activity. My experience in the class is pretty positive, and 72% is a great number.<\/p>\n
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70% of teachers said the students are more on-task than last year. And you have a variety of teachers responding; some could have really great engagement that they don’t see much of a change, but 70% do.<\/p>\n
This one was interesting:<\/p>\n
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Estimate how often during class students are off-task on other sites<\/em>, such as email. 25% doesn’t seem horrible to me, but having students be off-task only once per class or once per week is huge. We have our grading on Power School, they could be checking their grades on Power School. Generally, I think that’s pretty positive.<\/p>\n![\"implementing](\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/slide13.jpg\")
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Only 10% reported students were not using the Chromebooks wisely. That’s pretty small, considering these responses came from pretty much all the teachers in the school.<\/p>\n
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If you combine the “absolutely” and the “sometimes” you have 90%. That was great.<\/p>\n
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This was kind of interesting. Students are using less paper (and hence more efficient), so thinking about language arts and social studies classes, it’s nice that they can revise revise revise before they print, and I think that’s why those numbers were so high. But one-third of teachers reported that there had been no change in terms of efficiency, but with a variety of classes, using the Chromebooks in all the classes, you might not see it happen the same in all the classes.<\/p>\n
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“Are students synthesizing, analyzing, being confident with making judgements about quality of information?” This was one of our goals, so as far as this response, this would be an area of growth we could target, and put something together to achieve a little better percentage around these skills. Still room for growth.<\/p>\n
Conclusions<\/h2>\n
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Based on the data, we definitely improved how we were doing from the year prior. We still have some areas of growth, but that’s in designing lessons, and it does come back to the teachers integrating technology into your curriculum so you provide those types of meaningful curriculum for the students to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Debi Serafino,\u00a0a math teacher at Brattleboro Area\u00a0Middle School, presents the results of her semester-long action research project examining the\u00a0effects of implementing 1:1 norms and\u00a0digital citizenship on the behavior of the incoming 7th graders, all of whom participate in a 1:1 Chromebook project.<\/p>\n![\"Implementing](\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/3EsDRLNeYi8\/maxresdefault.jpg\")