New Line Learning Academy + Samsung Q1 = 1:1?

Saw this interesting video produced by LANWAY in partnership with the New Line Learning Academies in Maidstone. The video is clearly a commercial for both the devices and the partner company, but this is exactly the sort of partnership that adds value to education, providing students with examples of authentic enterprise. Several innovations are mentioned in the video, including setting up as their own SAMSUNG service centre to support the Q1.

At around £550 per device with accessories, plus the three year warranties and build/support, insurance etc. (roughly 20%?) that comes to around £330K per year on student kit. The video doesn't say whether parents contribute or whether its funded directly by the Academy, but it shows that the aspiration of 1:1 computing can be achieved.

'Hats Off'!

Published Thursday, February 07, 2008 7:43 PM by AlanDay
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# re: New Line Learning Academy + Samsung Q1 = 1:1?

Well that's about 3 times what we've been able to spend on ICT per year for the last ten years. I'd love to know how it's funded. I'd be even more impressed if I knew how they stopped their students playing games or emailing and messaging in their lessons when you can't see the students screen. I also choked a little on the comment that they can be "100% sure" that the student will have their device in their lesson. They never forget them? Lose them? Forget to charge them? We have a hard enough time getting students to have pens and pencils with them.

Like you say Alan it's more of an advert than anything else but it just leaves too many questions unanswered to really excite me.

Friday, February 08, 2008 12:15 PM by David Deakin

# re: New Line Learning Academy + Samsung Q1 = 1:1?

The devices are afforded through efficiency savings and by putting ICT at the centre of all that we do. It is part of the overall vision of the Academies to use ICT as a driver for change within the classroom, to improve teaching and learning and therefore improve the life chances of all of our students. It is a leap of faith to spend so much of capital budget on ICT but we have not looked back and the benefits that have been felt as a result of implementation far outweigh any sacrifices made.

We are also realistic in the way that the devices are deployed. In the video the teacher stated that there was a greater likelihood that he student would bring in their device, but as with text books and pens students do forget them and don’t charge them but it is true to say that the engagement in learning with these devices is so great that it is true to say that it is only a minority of students that do not bring in their learning device.

With regard to the messaging and games playing in lesson time. This is going to happen, but as with any undesirable behaviour in the classroom this is a classroom management issue, the only difference being that it can be tracked more effectively and dealt with using the correct network resources.

There are of course lots of questions and challenges when deploying on this scale and we have not got it totally right yet but we are learning a great deal and will continue to do so. We will also continue to deploy on this scale as we fundamentally believe that technology offers us way to deliver a truly personalised and immersive educational experience for our students.

Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:25 PM by David Simons

# re: New Line Learning Academy + Samsung Q1 = 1:1?

Thanks for the update David. I'd like to pick up a couple of questions. Do parents contribute to the kit, or are their plans to do so? Also you mentioned management using 'correct network resources'. What do you use to monitor and /or control. We have looked at several solutions to this tricky problem. So far I have only come across intellisynch and sanako that seem to offer direct control of mixed populations of mobile devices.

Friday, March 28, 2008 10:48 AM by AlanDay

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