Part Two of this draft checklist provides a way to monitor school operations for successful deployment of mobile PCs, especially Tablet PCs and Ultra Mobile PCs, in most K20 schools. Research and some teaching universities follow different procedures from ones described in this checklist.
Grant proposal writers may find this and related checklists and definitions useful in preparing work plans for application reviewers to consider.
Part Two expands Section 4 of Part One into Section 4: School Operations – Administration – School Principal; Section 5: School Operations – Teachers; Section 6: School Operations – Curriculum and Supervision; Section 7: School Operations – Instruction.
Part One elaborates the short form checklist. Adapt and adjust these and related checklists and definitions to fit details of deployment of mobile PCs in your school.
Part Three (to be released separately, soon) indicates ways to increase and evaluate student learning rates with Tablet PCs and other mobile PCs as well as to adjust the school public relations plan.
Please let me know what adjustments would make this checklist more useful for you. rwh
Part Two
Section 4: School Operations – Administration – School Principal
Establish a plan to implement the board of education or trustees policies about using mobile PCs in schools, including a schedule, to implement authorizations for using mobile PCs on campus and limits on student, personnel and personal access to public digital infrastructures.
Report progress in successfully implementing your plan for using mobile PCs on the campus for which you have responsibility.
Prepare and publish on school website a list of answers you give to Frequently Asked Questions by students, parents, employees, and community members about uses of mobile PCs in your school.
List criteria to identify when uses of mobile PCs in school operations “work” in each school operating unit.
List cost savings anticipated in delivery of curricula in electronic formats, e.g., electronic textbooks, software based lessons, instructional efficiencies.
Prepare and publish on school website a list successes from using mobile PCs in your school, e.g., cost savings, increased student academic performance.
Section 5: School Operations – Teachers
List and plan ways you will use mobile PCs to instruct students and to record and report their academic performance.
List ways you will use a mobile PC to manage your classroom.
List ways you want students to use mobile PCs to complete school assignments.