Untitled. 5 Things To Know About The BYOD Trend. 7 Ways To Keep Students Focused While Using Technology. When used effectively, technology plays an important role in enhancing the learning process. Teachers can use digital devices to present supplemental material for lessons or to encourage students to take a more hands-on role in their education. Even with all of the benefits of technology in the classroom, however, educators must use caution to ensure that students are focusing on the lesson and not giving in to distractions. Here are seven ways that teachers can use to help students pay more attention when using technology: 1. Encourage direct engagement. One of the benefits of technology is that students can interact with and learn from lesson materials directly rather than waiting for a passive transfer of information. 2.
Technology has made in-class participation easier than ever. 3. Students learn better when they are more engaged with the material and are encouraged to make it their own. 4. 5. 6. 7. How have you used technology in your classroom to increase learning? BYOD Class Takes Their Learning to YouTube. Video Creation | Feature BYOD Class Takes Their Learning to YouTube Even as YouTube is pushed out of most classrooms because it's deemed distracting, high school algebra teacher Vito Ferrante is committed to the idea that having students create videos for the site can be a powerful means of engaging them in learning.
Ferrante, who teaches at Jesuit High School, an all-boys Catholic school near Sacramento, CA, first discovered YouTube’s potential when he posted a series of videos outlining solutions to math problems, which was well received by both parents and students. But it was only when he took the next step and flipped the model, turning his students into the on-camera instructors, that he noticed the true gains. The result is a class full of budding Khan Academies. Every Friday, students upload their best video for viewing by Ferrante, their classmates, and even their parents, who make up a significant portion of the viewing demographic.
About the Author. How are iPads different from laptops in changing the classroom environment? Smartphones: Teaching Tool or Brain Candy? Mobile Learning | Feature Smartphones: Teaching Tool or Brain Candy? As smartphones become ubiquitous, educators debate how to take advantage of their unique strengths for learning while minimizing their disruptive influence. By Mark Frydenberg, Wendy Ceccucci, Patricia Sendall01/31/12 Let's get one thing straight. Smartphones are a permanent feature of college classrooms, whether you like it or not. Most students already have them, and it's just a matter of time before the rest follow suit. Yet students' attachment to these devices is not necessarily a bad thing. Smartphone as Learning Tool Today's smartphones have the computing power of a mid-1990s personal computer.
Wolf Creek District Deploys NAC To Support BYOD. Data Security | News Wolf Creek District Deploys NAC To Support BYOD By Dian Schaffhauser12/12/11 An Alberta school district has gone public with its use of a network access control system from Alcatel-Lucent and InfoExpress to support a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program. Wolf Creek Public Schools, which has about 7,200 K-12 students, implemented Safe Access Network Access Control (Safe NAC) as part of its development of the BYOD policy, which was introduced in September 2010. Safe NAC checks to see that user devices have the required security software and updates before they're allowed access to the school's network and the Internet.
It also enforces the district's policies for student devices, blocking access to services such as Skype. Added district Assistant Superintendent Gary Spence, "We wanted more than a simple ISP service available to our staff and students. The school district began preparing for its BYOD project in 2005 at the same time it was piloting a 1-to-1 initiative.