6 Reasons EdLeaders Should Let Kids Bring Devices to School. Bans on student use of mobile devices exist for some good reasons—kids use them inappropriately at school and there are safety and security concerns.
So why bother considering a change? There are six reasons to consider BYOD. Digital natives learn and live with technology. Most have and bring devices to school. Why not leverage the power? Creating a Robust and Safe BYOD Program. Until recently, student electronic devices, from cell phones to iPods to laptop computers, were the forbidden fruit in schools.
But with technology budgets languishing and such devices becoming more powerful, affordable and omnipresent in students’ lives, district technology leaders are now eyeing a welcome educational harvest through bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs. Lucy Gray, project director of the Leadership for Mobile Learning Initiative at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), has studied early BYOD adopters. “I’m stunned by the number of school districts opening their minds to this approach,” she says. SCHOOLCIO : BYOD Strategies. 1/31/2012 By: Proponents of “bring your own device” (BYOD) programs like them for a lot of reasons: budgets keep dwindling, students already bring devices to school, and technology isn’t getting cheaper.
“People are saying ‘It’s happening in the real world. Let’s mirror that in our schools,” says Lucy Gray, project director ofthe Leadership for Mobile Learning (LML) initiative at CoSN, the Consortium for School Networking. BYOD Policy vs. BYOD Learning Environment. There is a big difference between having a BYOD policy and a BYOD learning environment.
The former lays the foundation for a BYOD learning environment but it by no means guarantees it. In order to shift from a school with a BYOD policy to a school with a BYOD learning environment, mindset shifts need to occur organizationally: All of these require professional development and a systemic mindset that such an environment is desired. The latter requires leadership. The former requires both leadership and learning. The good news is that if you have a BYOD policy, there is a good chance you have pockets of BYOD learning environment– those teachers that only need the policy to be in place and they take off running with the possibilities.
This is the foundation for professional development. Laptop_Information_Sheet_Richmond_River. 6 Steps for Increasing Student Access with BYOD. More than 900 middle and high school students in Edina, Minn., bring their own personal devices to school.
Although that represents just 20 percent of the student population, it’s the equivalent of more than 30 labs coming to school each day. FISD_BYODCommunication_001. Cybrary Man. A Guide for Administrators. BYOD Questions to Consider. The buzz in 1-to-1 right now is about BYOD — Bring Your Own Device — and it’s not a fad and it’s not going away.
There’s a convergence of factors causing it including: Hardware is diverse and at price points that are more affordableSchools are hyper budget consciousThe “cloud” (previously called The Internet, the Web and the Information Superhighway) is ideal for core apps which are free or inexpensive with such as Google (although be sure to use GAFE), and ZohoParents are realizing that a digital device is necessary for learningSchools want to be sure students possess 21st Century skills But BYOD upsets apple carts right and left. But then there are the students. They grow and develop and move to the next grade level and out the door to college and to life. In order for BYOD to work well there must be a strong partnership between administration, Board members, teachers, technology, students, and parents. FISD Online.
BYOD Hanover ISD. #BYOD - Criteria for Implementation Success #byodchat #edchat. #BYOD - Criteria for Implementation SuccessCreative Commons Copyright ShareAlike-Attribution-NonCommercial This past week in a conversation, I found myself saying, “Wouldn’t it be neat if there was a rubric or list of criteria for implementing a BYOD program?
That way, you could just share that with campus/district leaders so they could be aware of what was needed from 3 different perspectives: Teaching & Learning, Policy and Procedures, and Infrastructure & Administration.” Everyone looked at me with expectation in their faces. Internally, I gave a long sigh. That sigh isn’t unlike the sigh educators give in response to their increasing awareness that crafting a strategy to implement BYOD is important given the following statistics: In light of the facts above, it’s obvious that BYOD is an initiative whose time has come...and, in spite of fears--such as inappropriate social media usage by teachers and students--that may derail it: So, how do schools “get ready” to implement BYOD?
I. II. Forsyth schools. BYOT Network. Learning at Your Fingertips: Cell Phones in the Classroom - ASCD Annual Conference 2012. Paulina Malek Although Kevin Thomas admits that cell phones can contribute to problems—including classroom disruption, cheating, and cyberbullying—he believes the benefits are far greater than the challenges.
"It's about ethics. It's not about technology," he said. In the session "Using Cell Phones in the Kindergarten Through Grade 12 Classrooms," Thomas, professor at the Frazier School of Education at Bellarmine University in Kentucky, discussed the potential benefits of mobile phone use in the classroom. Mobile features such as texting can also provide a variety of possibilities for student learning. Another phone feature, the digital camera, allows students to create their own multimedia stories. Thomas described a 7th grade social studies class who accessed the National Archives and Records Administration using their cell phones. The project allowed students to develop better thinking skills and gain a deeper understanding of the Constitution, said Thomas.
#BYOTchat for 03/29/2012. #BYOD Vision/Mission Statements.