Happy New Year! Will BYOD impact on #education in 2013? #edtech « Lee Andrew Dunn. Happy New Year!
Will BYOD impact on #education in 2013? #edtech Happy New Year to you all. I have refreshed my blog for 2013, hopefully you like it. It’s less cluttered and gets straight to the point. I wanted to start the new year with a thought provoking piece. I remember fondly, my time as a young and plucky probationary teacher. The Gradual Shift Yet, one could argue that somewhere on this journey, my pedagogy has lost focus and that there remains disconnect between my ambition for interactive learning through technology and the realities of my practice.
Let’s explore this concept… From the teacher perspective, the learning environment could be seen as technology-rich, including the integration of teaching aides; an arsenal of technology placed at the teacher’s disposal. The flipped perspective, from the student’s point of view can be very different. Challenging the Model of 1:1 with BYOD. This year my school district in Vermont ventured into a sort-of BYOD/1:1 hybrid program.
We realized the importance of allowing our students access to technology to enhance their learning, but the infrastructure wasn't in place to tackle a traditional BYOD. And we, like many if not all schools, were also constrained by budgets, so a traditional 1:1, where each student receives the same device, was also out of reach. Instead, we chose to be creative with our technology and professional development. We used money from our technology budget and constructed a model to supply teachers with a mix of mobile devices, mostly laptops and iPads, and teachers applied to take part in a mixed device technology-integration pilot program.
In many aspects, the program is like BYOD because each classroom adapts to a set of different devices with varying capabilities, but in our case, students aren't actually bringing their own. Why Mixed Devices? Ongoing Experimentation and Professional Development. Thinking about BYOD. The topic of BYOD continues to be a hot topic in schools, with many schools I visit looking at investing in wireless technologies to support students (and staff) bringing their own device to school.
While there appears to be agreement that the notion of BYOD is something to be pursued, there isn't a shared understanding of what that might mean in a school context. For instance, in one school I visited there was a tension between the view of students who wanted to be able to use whatever device they had in their pocket, and the view of teachers who wanted them all to have the same device in order to be able to use them for 'formal' learning activities in class (based on the perception that this will minimise the amount of technical assistance required, or a requirement for a certain level of performance to run installed software etc.) On the 'y' axis is a continuum based on whether the device is specified or not specified. Bring Your Own Device: Advantages, Dangers, Risks and best Policy to stay secure. Most of articles, blogs and Tweets written by educational people are showing the advantages of “Bring Your Own Device” (Hashtag for Twitter = #BYOD) and they embrace very well BYOD, which I do also; but… There are some more things to consider such as: A BYOD Policy in the campus, school…Prepare for BYOD in your organization, thus meaning: training for ALL!
Uneducated Employees and Their Seven Deadly SinsMDM: Mobile Device ManagementInternal IT-Security InfrastructureA special IT-Security Insurance… Read my complete curation about BYOD it here: where you will find also best articles and blogs who describe at it best what BYOD is as well as blogs from teachers who explain the benefits for Education… ===> Read and learn also about IT-Security, YES that is a MUST in 21st Century in Education, especially when using BYOD: <=== Learn also about eCitizen, Digital Citizenship where Teachers should stay there as good example and knowing about their responsability: BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) School Policy. Does your child bring a handheld device to school to access the Internet?
Many kids aren't supposed to but do anyway, texting under their desk in Algebra and streaming music (with earbuds, of course) in study hall. But some schools are instructing, encouraging, and even begging their kids to bring out their devices and use them during school hours. I recently caught up with an old friend, and between her three kids and my four, we certainly had a lot of back-to-school info to share with each other. 10 Real-World BYOD Classrooms (And Whether It’s Worked Or Not) With budgets tight, many schools are hoping to bring technology into the classroom without having to shell out for a device for each student.
A solution for many has been to make classes BYOD (short for “bring your own device”), which allows students to bring laptops, tablets, and smartphones from home and to use them in the classroom and share them with other students. It’s a promising idea, especially for schools that don’t have big tech budgets, but it has met with some criticism from those who don’t think that it’s a viable long-term or truly budget-conscious decision. Whether that’s the case is yet to be seen, but these stories of schools that have tried out BYOD programs seem to be largely positive, allowing educators and students to embrace technology in learning regardless of the limited resources they may have at hand. Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy This Florida college prep recently expanded its BYOD pilot program to include sixth through 12th grades.