headoned Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 Ok so its looking like the vision for the future of the school is currently to look to move towards a paperless classroom. How many of you guys have done this successfully? and what does it look like? Do you issue students devices? do you use One Note or have you used other software for this? Your thoughts please
Brimstone Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 Have a look at Showbie. it's a powerful assignment, collaboration and assessment tool, works on iOS, Google and Web. https://www.showbie.com 1
slugshead Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 Surface Pros + the stylus Adobe CC lics for everyone (includes acrobat pro for pdf editing) OneNote for teaching 1
paulkerton Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 Google Classroom + Kami and Chromebooks with stylus support
Brimstone Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 Surface Pros + the stylus Adobe CC lics for everyone (includes acrobat pro for pdf editing) OneNote for teaching What.....? One Note is great for teachers but give every teacher a copy of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier Pro, InDesign etc? I think not. 2
chazzy2501 Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 we actually had this during lockdown! Then when we came back we went straight back to old habits!
Oaktech Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 We aren't there yet, but we're trialling 1:1 chromebooks with Y6 using All the GSuite tools as appropriate.
headoned Posted January 17, 2022 Author Posted January 17, 2022 Yeh i have a feeling its going to need to be lead by a change in staff teaching culture. But hopefully with the right tools it will be adopted and used widely.
dhicks Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 One Note is great for teachers but give every teacher a copy of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier Pro, InDesign etc? If you mean "Adobe Creative Cloud Suite is too expensive to roll out over a whole school", then I think the current cost is £5 per pupil / teacher per year, with a minimum order of 300 seats, so £1,500. That, I think, includes home-use rights for pupils / staff, too. That is still a yearly cost, of course, and there's always a cost in setup / admin time, and of course you'd need reasonably up-to-date Windows / Mac hardware to run it. Google Classroom + Kami and Chromebooks with stylus support Yes, us too - Lenovo Chromebooks, around £380 each (price includes management license and VAT), complete with stylus support and a built-in stylus in a slot in the device. Those styluses are quite loosable, so maybe collect in and distribute as needed, but they can be replaced with £30-a-time Staedtler styluses (although those don't fit in the slot). The only problem with those styluses is that they look exactly like standard yellow Staedtler "Noris" pencil that your typical classroom has bucketloads of, making them even easier to loose.
TwistedHelixis Posted January 17, 2022 Posted January 17, 2022 Chromebooks and Google Classroom for all KS2 1
Brimstone Posted January 18, 2022 Posted January 18, 2022 If you mean "Adobe Creative Cloud Suite is too expensive to roll out over a whole school", then I think the current cost is £5 per pupil / teacher per year, with a minimum order of 300 seats, so £1,500. That, I think, includes home-use rights for pupils / staff, too. That is still a yearly cost, of course, and there's always a cost in setup / admin time, and of course you'd need reasonably up-to-date Windows / Mac hardware to run it. It's nothing to do with the cost, what are teachers expected to use for proper assessment? One Note? I don't think so, as not a single one of those apps has any type of assessment tool. What about collaboration tools? There are some but fairly clunky ways of doing this. I can buy an iPad that comes with every creative tool you need, I can scan a document, convert it to a PDF, annotate it, save it to Google or One Drive or send to students in my class via Airdrop or more powerful Showbie, if those students are remote. Every tool used above is free charge.
enjay Posted April 21, 2022 Posted April 21, 2022 Fully paperless could be a bit bold, and might actually have a negative impact on T&L IMHO, but significant reduction is definitely possible. - 1:1 devices for students - email groups, Classroom/Teams pre-created for every class so it is easy for staff to share resources with students - scan-to-email - staff training on how to use the above 3 things - staff training on how to print reduced size, e.g. print an A4 document two-to-a-page - directly charge departments for their printing, including reports to managers/budget holders of who printed what - remove office printers, especially desktop ones - increase the turnaround time for printing from reprographics - all communication with parents sent electronically, including introducing a system for online reply slips (Google/MS Forms if you have to, but your payment system should be able to do it too) My previous school did all of the above, and we roughly halved our paper usage. 1
Jamm Posted April 21, 2022 Posted April 21, 2022 We are going that way. The first push was over lockdown, we were forced to move to teams and onenote for every day lessons. once being allowed back in the building, management have pushed for teachers to keep using it. Having touch screen laptops and a stylus has been a big part of it so that the whiteboard can be completely digital now, and accessible to students after the lesson. We use SchoolDataSync and Salamander to automate AD to teams and to make sure students are put into the right 'teams'. Being Teams, it is accessible to all students either over the web or they can download it from Office.com with their school email. In the future we woul like to have a Buy Your own device scheme, but for now we are supporting home devices brought in. (wifi availible for students is also a necesity)
sigma Posted April 10, 2023 Posted April 10, 2023 Until Public Exams are completely paperless, pupils will have to be as fluent in writing answers with a paper and pen as they are electronically. Until rules are defined by exam boards that cover proctoring software and use of paraphrasing tools, ChatGPT etc for schools similar to those applied in Universities, I can’t see it. (That doesn’t mean I am not appalled at the shear amount of repetitive photocopying of worksheets etc that goes on in schools as pupils no longer seem to be issued with books).
NeoNebula Posted December 8, 2023 Posted December 8, 2023 At my college, which was about 8 years ago, my professor was against harming trees. So, we never had textbooks on that module, and all papers to read where available online for free. Indeed, he encouraged us to use iPads and laptops instead of printing papers.
TwistedHelixis Posted December 12, 2023 Posted December 12, 2023 Fully paperless could be a bit bold We had a teacher come over from New Zealand about 5 years ago, he was surprised we even had printers. The school he had come from had gone full Google even back then and had apparently removed all printers from staff areas. 1
PotNoodleTech Posted December 12, 2023 Posted December 12, 2023 We went full google during lockdown everyone had a chromebook not a single bit of A4 printed whilst the School was closed and guess what we had some of the best results in the area which means printing has no discernable effect on results. Gone right back to square 1 now, in fact some departments are even worse. SLT's issue to deal with and I sure aint SLT judging from my paypacket.
NeoNebula Posted December 12, 2023 Posted December 12, 2023 I think many students had the best exam results during the lockdown. Especially those who had a spare computer or a tablet
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