One of the best ways you can begin getting more impact from your iPads in school is to simply commit a vision to paper. By creating a 'destination' (your vision) you'll be better equipped to navigate the route in order to get there. Without any vision it becomes very difficult to develop any impact from the iPad, because there's no guiding principal that all staff are working towards.
So how do you outline your vision? It's relatively straightforward, and the first step is to gather the relevant stakeholders together and discuss it. This should be your upper leadership, and should always include the headteacher. Again, in many cases the headteacher delegates the iPad project to someone else, but unless they're involved in the vision and give their full weight (and authority) to it, you're going to struggle to develop buy in from your staff. So first point of call, commit the headteacher to being part of the visioning process.
Tags: Strategy