Pearson, Cisco, and Samsung: One Powerful Connection to Optimize School Investments Overview To address the need for high-stakes online assessments, professional development, and data analytics, Pearson, Cisco, and Samsung provide one powerful connection that facilitates simultaneous needs assessment, design, purchase, and implementation of instructional resources, network, and devices. This makes sure that students and teachers can successfully experience all that personalized learning has to offer. It includes: Professional development and implementation support around each component Personalized learning resources Video and collaboration technologies Instructional resources High-quality devices Core infrastructure Challenge Recent years have seen educational authorities investing in a range of technologies, including blended and digital content, devices, and network solutions, often in isolation of one another and without a unified strategy. Curriculum decision-making responsibilities have been handed to instructional leadership or even to building leadership, while device and network purchases were the responsibility of district IT staff. It is rare for these two groups to spend extended time together discussing how their strategic plans and purchases impact the other. With the rapid acceleration of technologies that now more directly affect teaching and learning, such as digital content and new blended learning models, authorities now struggle to determine whether instructional or IT leaders should be responsible for such purchases. It is still common for instructional leaders to select blended and digital content and then consult with the IT leadership on device compatibility and network impact. Even in optimal decision-making scenarios, instructional and IT staff might come together for a brief period of time to check in with one another and make sure that a purchase of content, devices, or network solutions does not conflict with other decisions being made in the organization. But what if decisions were not made in isolation? What if content decisions did not dictate device and network decisions, and vice versa? Business Benefits Pearson, Cisco, and Samsung bring instructional leadership, IT leadership, and building leadership together to help make informed and integrated decisions about content, devices, and networks. This makes sure that students and teachers can successfully experience all that personalized learning has to offer. This alliance can: Fundamentally change the way that educational authorities select, purchase, and implement blended and digital content, instructional devices, and network systems by offering an integrated process. Collaborate with educational authorities in the implementation of personalized learning and one-to-one environments. Support effective educational authority and school communication and decision-making.
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Pearson, Cisco, and Samsung: One Powerful Connection to Optimize School InvestmentsOverviewTo address the need for high-stakes online assessments, professional development, and data analytics, Pearson, Cisco, and Samsung provide one powerful connection that facilitates simultaneous needs assessment, design, purchase, and implementation of instructional resources, network, and devices.
This makes sure that students and teachers can successfully experience all that personalized learning has to offer. It includes:
Professional development and implementation support around each component
Personalized learning resources
Video and collaboration technologies
Instructional resources
High-quality devices
Core infrastructure
ChallengeRecent years have seen educational authorities investing in a range of technologies, including blended and digital content, devices, and network solutions, often in isolation of one another and without a unified strategy. Curriculum
decision-making responsibilities have been handed to instructional leadership or even to building leadership, while device and network purchases were the responsibility of district IT staff. It is rare for these two groups to spend extended time together discussing how their strategic plans and purchases impact the other.
With the rapid acceleration of technologies that now more directly affect teaching and learning, such as digital content and new blended learning models, authorities now struggle to determine whether instructional or IT leaders should be responsible for such purchases.
It is still common for instructional leaders to select blended and digital content and then consult with the IT leadership on device compatibility and network impact.
Even in optimal decision-making scenarios, instructional and IT staff might come together for a brief period of time to check in with one another and make sure that a purchase of content, devices, or network solutions does not conflict with other decisions being made in the organization.
But what if decisions were not made in isolation? What if content decisions did not dictate device and network decisions, and vice versa?
Business BenefitsPearson, Cisco, and Samsung bring instructional leadership, IT leadership, and building leadership together to help make informed and integrated decisions about content, devices, and networks. This makes sure that students and teachers can successfully experience all that personalized learning has to offer.
This alliance can:
Fundamentally change the way that educational authorities select, purchase, and implement blended and digital content, instructional devices, and network systems by offering an integrated process.
Collaborate with educational authorities in the implementation of personalized learning and one-to-one environments.
Support effective educational authority and school communication and decision-making.
For More InformationFor more information visit our website at
http://www.PearsonSchool.com/ciscosamsung
Combined SolutionPearson, Cisco, and Samsung are working with thousands of schools each year. We understand that educational authorities are at different stages in their implementation of digital content, devices and networks.
Pearson offers iLit, a tablet-based reading intervention for students in grades 4-10. It includes every resource you need to support your Tier 2 and Tier 3 students to gain two years of reading growth in a single year: curriculum, assessment, data, and professional development.
This digital experience is no longer contained within the walls of the classroom, but includes external connections, videos, content, and collaboration beyond the classroom to include other classes, schools, remote experts, the home, and the field.
Many institutions have debated the trade-off of prioritizing the lowest price for a point product or service in their network over investing in a strategic plan to architect a scalable and highly available network infrastructure.
This debate is now taking a back seat as more and more institutions are realizing that the network is a critical enabler of their digital strategy. Today and in the future, digital curriculum and personalized learning will mandate a quality highly available and scalable network that does not fail and just works.
Summary
Covering curriculum, assessment, data and professional development, Pearson’s iLit for struggling readers is designed to meet the national crisis of students who simply cannot read at the appropriate grade level and who, by the time they reach high school, are dropping out.
Cisco and Samsung support such tools and, along with Pearson, work with educational authority and site leadership to identify where schools are and where they would like to be and then to help move them along the continuum with the most effective and efficient product and service mixture possible.
POWERFUL CONNECTIONIntroducing an easier way to power your schools into the future. 1
Pearson, Cisco, and Samsung have formed a unique partnership to help you personalize learning for your students. Now you can work with one team of experts
to obtain your curriculum, networking services and infrastructure, and digital devices. It’s one powerful connection that will simplify all you do.
For more information, visit:PearsonSchool.com/CiscoSamsung
Deliver on the learning outcomes you expect with digitally rich curriculum for your intervention classroom.
• Tablet-based reading intervention for students in Grades 4-10
• Data and analytics
• Text-based writing tasks and discussions
• Interactive and adaptive learning
• Personalized instruction
• Professional development services
Online Assessments
Download a free copy of Common Core Network Readiness Guidelines: Is your network ready?
Personalized Learning Innovation in Classroom Resources
» Classroom curriculum distribution and management
» Network application discovery, prioritization, and acceleration to optimize the student’s learning experience
» Intuitive interfaces and features to support multimedia learning
» Instant personalization to adapt to students’ learning levels
» Wide selection of teacher-approved apps, books and videos
Provide your students and teachers with cutting-edge technology that's built for the classroom, including:
• Fast-booting and reliable Samsung Chromebooks
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Education, compatible with Google Play for Education and Android Management Console
• Samsung School interactive classroom management solution
• Interactive whiteboards, multifunction printers and more
Manage and Control Devices for All Students
» Ease of centralized management and deployment of device content and applications
» Device and network level security to insure student privacy and protection
» Cloud based dashboard for enforcing device policy including provisioning, inventory, status, location and much more
» Find and remote wipe lost/compromised devices
» Proven best practices in assessment readiness and delivery
» Reliable and efficient network services to enhance assessment availability
» Broad device portfolio conforming to assessment requirements
