Mobile Learning Mindset: The District Leader's Guide to Implementation

Mobile Learning Mindset: The District Leader’s Guide to Implementation offers lessons learned and examples to help education leaders successfully implement a mobile device initiative in their school or district.

The six-book Mobile Learning Mindset series shares practical knowledge and strategies for successful implementation of K-12 BYOD programs and 1:1 initiatives. The collection provides district leaders, principals, teachers, IT staff, educational coaches and parents with the information they need to make any mobile learning program a success.

Tools and activities throughout this book will help district leaders:

• Effectively model technology use.
• Identify stakeholders and cultivate buy-in.
• Build a culture of creativity and shared ownership.
• Evaluate and adjust a mobile device program.

With this book, you’ll gain a better understanding of the effect that mobile learning can have on your staff, students and community and get guidance on modeling, risk-taking, building a culture of creativity and shared ownership, and leading the various components of a mobile device initiative.

Audience: School/district leaders

Carl Hooker has been part of a strong educational shift with technology integration in schools since 1998. His unique blend of educational background, technical expertise, and humor make him a driving force for this change. As director of innovation and digital learning at Eanes ISD in Texas, he helped spearhead a mobile learning program that put iPads in the hands of all 8,000 students across the district. He is also the founder of “iPadpalooza” (http://ipadpalooza.com), a three-day learning festival in celebration of the shift iPads have brought about in education and beyond. Hooker was named Tech & Learning Magazine’s 2014 Leader of the Year and he is a member of the Apple Distinguished Educator class of 2013.