Irina Uk and Noor Alkhater

EDC Mobile Tech Policy

Consultants

According to the EDC Opportunities in Instructional Design Roles Documents, our assignment was:

“Getting administrators and teachers on board with mobile learning can run up against Acceptable or Responsible Use Policies that ban cell phones in the classrooms. This team will research and propose updated school/ district/ classroom policies that support mobile learning and then identify model policies currently in place. The takeaway will include these models, justifications as to why they are included, and tools and resources schools and districts can use to develop their own responsible or acceptable use policies.”

Project Summary

1. Why should schools rewrite Acceptable/Responsible Use Policies?

2. What foundational principles should inform the design of an effective

AUP/ RUP?

3. What are the elements of an effective Acceptable/Responsible Use

Policy?

4. What should be done post implementation of mobile Acceptable/

Responsible Use Policies to determine their effectiveness?

Research Questions

The CoSN Final Report: Leadership for Web 2.0 in Education: Promise & Reality

summarized that administrators where most concerned with:

1. time wasting/ distractions

2. use of biased sources, plagiarism and cheating

3. exposure to inappropriate content and interactions

4. transfer of personal information

5. cyber bullying

This was echoed by the administrators we interviewed.

AUP/ RUP Related Concerns

An effective AUP or RUP responds to all the issues that school leaders, administrators, teachers and parents have related to the use of web 2.0 tools and mobile technology in classrooms, acts as a framework for mitigating, redirecting and responding to misuse, and acts to facilitate a responsible use culture in which mobile technology and web 2.0 tools can be utilized to enhance learning and acquisition of 21st century skills.

What is an effective AUP/RUP?

AUP Creation Station

http://12.69.98.3:8080/AUPBuilder.aspx

Key Takeaways: Checklist serves as a roadmap for the major steps involved in

writing an AUP/RUP: Who to involve in the process Goal setting Establishing concerns Agreement protocol and policy Familiarization time Promoting understanding and adherence Assessment

Summary:This section provides administrators with an initial roadmap to guide them through the process of creating an AUP/RUP. Based extensive research, the checklist offers key considerations and suggestions for how to initiate development and navigate through the process of creating an AUP/RUP.

Development Checklist

Key Takeaways: Elements of AUP/ RUP must reflect guiding principles Examples of guiding principles include:

Safety Respect Sharing Privacy

Language choice is important Convey trust in faculty and students Communicate that tech use is a privilege Use active vocabulary

AUP/ RUP should be clearly structured and easy to read Convey mandatory review process Explicitly define modes of tech use and set guidelines for distinct uses Link consequences to specifies breaches

Summary:This section contains a detailed recommendation of what an effective AUP/ RUP should contain and how it should be organized. This recommendation was written based on research consisting of EdTech literature, already existing effective AUPs/ RUPs and interviews we conducted with administrators and other school officials. Our AUP/ RUP recommendation addresses all of the major mobile technology and web 2.0 related concerns that were voiced by administrators in the CoSN Final Report and in interviews.

AUP Recommendation

Key Takeaways: Updated AUP/ RUP should reflect changes in emerging technologies and

provide opportunities to utilize web 2.0 tools for learning Different schools have different needs and ecologies, so AUPs/ RUPs

should be individualized to those differences

Summary:This section allows the user to build their own AUP/ RUP, export and print it. It is split screen, so that they can refer to sections of the AUP/ RUP recommendation while writing their own. They have options to delete categories, add categories and change the order of categories that we provide them with. The builder is prepopulated with a model example of each section in the AUP/ RUP. The user can choose to keep, modify or overwrite this example.

AUP Builder

Key Takeaways: Administrators are responsible for creating a responsible use culture

Make sure AUP/ RUP is in accordance with CIPA and COPPA; consult a legal representative

Acquaint parents, teachers and students with AUP / RUP and web 2.0 tools usage Hold parent nights Facilitate Digital Network Day, post flyers, make announcements Ongoing PD where teachers choose what they learn Set up student run helpdesks

Teachers promote AUP/ RUP adherence and benefits by Teaching digital citizenship curriculum Consistently enforcing AUP/ RUP guidelines Meaningfully integrating web 2.0 tools into curriculum

Summary:This section provides resources for teachers, administrators and parents that can help them implement the new AUP/ RUP. We provide links to many resources and share pointers on what can be done to help a school transition smoothly to using web 2.0 tools and teaching 21st century skills.

Implementation Resources

Key Takeaways: There is no one way to assess and measure the effectiveness of an AUP/ RUP Assessment is important to:

Guide future revisions of the policy in place Better support student understanding and adherence of policy

Keeping track of infringements helps administrators locate what aspects of the policy students are struggling with and consider how to better support and promote school-wide understanding and adherence

Other ways to assess that are not included: Student surveys

Summary:This section offers administrators resources for how to assess the success of the AUP/ RUP they have adopted. The section is made up of two parts; the first is a discipline referral flowchart. It allows administrators to pinpoint the specific aspects and parts of the AUP/ RUP that students are not adhering to. We have included accompanying recommendations for how to respond to specific breaches. The second part is an interactive discipline referral tracker to quantify the number of referrals in order to reveal specific problem areas in the AUP/ RUP.

Assessment Tools:Student Use

Key Takeaways: There is no one way to assess and measure the effectiveness of an AUP/ RUP Assessment is important to:

Guide future revisions of the policy in place Better support student understanding and adherence of policy

Observing how teachers and students use technology within a classroom offers administrators insight into how the AUP/ RUP is being adhered to.

Other ways to assess that are not included: Teacher surveys

Summary:The teacher use section of the assessment tools is a classroom observation protocol. Administrators can evaluate teacher use of technology in the classroom linked to AUP/ RUP guidelines, adherence and promotion, as well as collect data on how students respond to the teacher’s practices. Using this assessment model, administrators can analyze the specific aspects that are ignored or breached and what they can do to better support understanding and adherence of the AUP/ RUP.

Assessment Tools:Teacher Use

Future Site Considerations

• Provide details about bullets on development checklist• Give administrators logins so they can

• Save and return to AUP/ RUP later• Save and return to teacher evaluations later• Store teacher evaluations and student discipline

referral tracker data on site • They upload finished AUPs/ RUPs and share them• Write postings and share parsed by AUP/ RUP

section headings• Create a Contact Us tab, so users can communicate to us

their questions and comments about the site and AUP/ RUP creation

• Configure the site for an iPad screen

Suggestions?Questions?