The primary objective of this blog is to document the journey that the Coffs Harbour High School Mathematics Department will have to undertake to be prepared for the onslaught that will be students with laptops in a few short months.

Our Maths department is filled with experienced teachers who work very hard to ensure all student achieve their best results. We are by all accounts a “traditional” Mathematics Department – which by no means is a negative as supported by a recent Mid North Coast Math’s teachers day at which Professor John Pegg presented some of the findings of the AESOP Project http://www.une.edu.au/simerr/pages/projects/3aesop.php that justified the “traditional” approach.  The majority of the staff in the Department are tentative in their use of technology and perhaps even fearful of the implicaitons of a 1-1 laptop programme. I, (the new Head Teacher in 2009) have worked in a 1 -1  laptop school in Victoria, and a school that issued staff with Tablet PC’s for use in the classroom.

At at recent Central Cluster (Mid North Coast) Mathematics Head Teachers Collegiate Meeting some of the issues surrounding L4L were raised – and I volunteered to set up an online discussion forum using our schools Moodle Installation http://www.coffsharbourhighschool.com/moodle/course/view.php?id=22

feel free to visit as a guest and post and contribute – if you are interested in having a profile contact me and I’ll organise it!

There has also been lots of discussion on Twitter about the rollout of laptops and some good blog posts

Darcey Moore’s 10 things a faculty can do
http://deangroom.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/policy-and-risk-in-11-laptops/

In the second part I will start to discuss ideas regarding planning based on our Maths sequence.