Effective Apps And Web Tools For BYOD Classrooms Your school probably doesn’t have enough money to give each student an iPad. There. I said it. I hate to be the bad guy in this situation but it’s news that you should know. The only issue is managing the plethora of devices and figuring out how to do certain activities on different platforms. Thanks to a fabulous chart from MakeLearn, it’s easy to see how you can do it all no matter what platform your students are using. Pretty slick, eh? The following visual details just 5 key BYOD activities but there are, of course, plenty of other projects you can take on. byod c Web 2.0 Resources for BYOT Programs | A Teacher's Coda As my school district prepares to implement BYOT in the 2012-2013 school, I have collected Web 2.0 tools that students and faculty (grades 7-12) could use. Because of the sheer number of apps for mobile devices, I have not included any apps. Recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Agriculture: “10 Best Mobile Agriculture Apps For 2012″ Art: Audio: Audacity (Audio editor and recorder)Cepstral Text to SpeechVocaroo (Online voice recording) Blogging: Business: Cloud Storage: Collaboration Tools: Collections of Resources: Communications: Cel.ly (Many uses communications, polling…) NEWCreateDebateGoSaopBoxGroupMe (Send one text message to a group)Make Beliefs Comic (Create a comic strip)Remind 101 (Send mass text messages to students)SkypeTodaysMeet (Create a temporary site to promote discussion)Voki (Create speaking Avatars) Flash Cards: Anki (Also has mobile apps)Cramberry (Also has mobile apps)Evernote Peek (Also has mobile apps)Quizlet (Also has mobile apps)StudyBlue (Also has mobile apps) Wiki:
Explosive Growth in Education Apps Digital Tools Teaching Strategies Flickr:Flickingerbrad By Carly Shuler, Joan Ganz Cooney Center In 2007, when the iPhone made its debut, there was little doubt that it would revolutionize the mobile phone industry. But at the time, few imagined that it would spawn a multibillion-dollar market for mobile applications, and fewer imagined that this market might become a significant one for children. Less than five years later, more than a quarter of all parents have downloaded apps for their children to use, according to a Common Sense Media study. Today’s children will benefit if apps become an important force for learning and discovery. 1. Over 80% of the top selling paid apps in the Education category of the iTunes Store target children.In 2009, almost half (47%) of the top selling apps targeted preschool or elementary aged children. 2. The App Explosion - Mobile app revenue is expected to generate $38 billion by 2015 - The App Store has paid out over $2.5 billion to developers. 3. 4. 5.
The BYOT – BYOD Difference | BYOT? Bring it on Mal Lee It is daily becoming more apparent that there is a greater difference between the terms BYOT and BYOD than originally observed, with the term BYOD – bring your own device – being increasingly used to describe a model of student technology usage in those schools that see the need to take a stepped approach to the inevitable adoption of BYOT. It is not simply a semantic difference but an indication of schools and often education authorities readiness to immediately accept the key educational principles underpinning what some call the more pure BYOT. One of the growing challenges in researching and writing on the use of technology in schools normalising the use of the digital in their everyday teaching is that they are evolving at pace and what might have been apt six months ago is now dated. That challenge is made that much greater when writing a print book. A reminder Martin and I defined BYOT in the new book as: They are significant changes.
The Epic BYOD Toolchest (51 Tools You Can Use Now) PowerSchool Learning: (Previously Haiku Learning.) This is a full learning management system (LMS) that I’m trying to get our school to adopt. It’s multiplatform and robust, which makes it a great fit for our BYOD environment. It also works on top of Google Classroom, so I have all those features too, plus my grade book. Google Classroom: Teachers are moving in droves to Google Classroom. There are many other content-sharing platforms, like Moodle, Canvas, and CourseSites. Screencasting and Capturing What Happens in Class If you’re going to share and interact with your students in the electronic and physical spaces (as you should), you must learn how to screencast. In some exciting news, Apple has announced that iOS 11 (out later this year) will include screen recording capabilities and new screenshot features. Screencast-O-Matic: This is my go-to app. Cloud Syncing Dropbox: If you shoot video and need to get it onto your computer, Dropbox is essential. Expression Blogging Presentations
10 Unique Lesson Ideas for BYOD and BYOT - Getting Smart by Getting Smart Staff - bring your own device, bring your own technology, BYOD, BYOT, cell phones for learning, ipads in the classroom, lesson, m-learning, mobile learning, texting in class Bring your own device (BYOD) and bring your own technology (BYOT) policies are growing in education and the workplace. Teachers are taking advantage of mobile devices for “m-learning,” putting those mini computers in kids’ backpacks and pockets to use. Here are 10 lesson ideas for BYOD and m-learning in the classroom. Answer Poll Questions Through TextPoll Everywhere allows teachers to create a multiple choice or open-ended poll question. Study With a Flashcard AppWith apps like Flashcard Deluxe, students can write up digital flashcards on their notes in order to study on their smart phone, iPod or tablet.Share Ideas Over TextWiffiti allows students to text responses or feedback that can then be projected on a screen to the whole class. How are you teaching with students’ personal mobile devices, iPods, laptops and tablets?
First 5 Lessons Learned In Our First Year Of BYOT | BYOT or Bring Your Own Technology is off to a rousing start in our District and at the high school where I serve as a Campus Technology Integration Specialist. As the year winds to an end, I thought I would share some of the first lessons that were learned. You should know that our high school is large with over 160 teachers and 2500 students. Lesson 1 - Get administration on board! These folks are critical. Lesson 2 – Do Your Homework! Take some time and find out what’s already known about BYOT/BYOD! Lesson 3 – Form a campus BYOT Cadre! Invite faculty and staff from your campus to join the BYOT Cadre and build ownership in the process. Lesson 4 – Build a carefully considered BYOT Acceptable Use Policy! All stakeholders benefit from the creation of a well-designed BYOT/BYOD Acceptable Use Policy. Lesson 5 – Squash the idea that BYOT is ONLY project-based! There’s a misconception that BYOT implies classroom projects.
At Davos, the ‘skills gap’ is on the guest list As the world’s movers and shakers head to Davos, Switzerland, this week for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, the International Labour Organization has issued a gloomy report on employment – just in time to focus minds at Davos even more sharply on the global jobs crisis. “The jobs crisis continues unabated, with one in three workers worldwide – or an estimated 1.1 billion people – either unemployed or living in poverty,” said Juan Samovia, the ILO’s director-general. The annual ILO publication highlights the fact that globally, young people are nearly three times as likely as adults to be unemployed. The global youth unemployment rate, at 12.7 per cent, remains a full percentage point above the pre-crisis level. In the forthcoming 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, on youth, skills and work, we will explore a key element of youth unemployment: the mismatch between what education systems teach and the skills that employers want.
#BYOTchat Unplugs for Valentine’s Day Sometimes, unplugging is good for the soul – and for the spouse! #BYOTchat will not have an official chat tonight, but feel free to tweet with the #BYOTchat hashtag. We are very excited about our upcoming chats! February 21 – Jenny Grabiec @techgirljenny (www.techgirljenny.com) to lead the discussion on “Parents and BYOT”.February 28 – Tony Vincent @TonyVincent ( to lead the discussion on Project-Based LearningMarch 14 – Ron McCallister @rondmac ( Leadership for BYOTMarch 21 – Special high school student-led #BYOTchat with selected students from across the United States serving as guest moderators. Happy Valentine’s Day, and we’ll see you Thursday, February 21. BYOD: Resources for Making it Happen This page includes a variety of ideas and suggestions for making a bring your own device (BYOD) program work at your school. Some of this material was assembled by a group of teachers and tech trainers in our school district as a summer project. Since most of our BYOD resources lie behind the district firewall, I’ve included that material here directly. A growing collection of additional articles and resources can be found in my Delicious feed. And if you have something you believe should be included here, please add a comment in the space below. Why BYOD (and why not)? One-to-One 2.0 – A free book about BYOD by Converge Magazine, in pdf format. 7 Myths About BYOD Debunked – A good look at why some of the challenges to BYOD (see the last link in this section) may not be valid. BYOD in the News – A story about BYOD in Forsyth County School District outside Atlanta as reported on NBC’s Nightly News program. BYOD-Worst Idea of the 21st Century? Best Practices for Teachers Lots. Need more?
Teachers Quick Guide to BYOD BYOD is the catch phrase in the 2012 educational technology spheres. This acronym stands for " Bring Your Own Device ", I am pretty sure you might have heard of this new trend because wherever you turn you hear people talking about embracing it.We have already written a detailed guide on everything teachers need to know about BYOD but today we came across this awesome infographic in Cool infographics that sheds more light on this new trend. Have a look at it and share with us your suggestions.
Mimi Ito - Weblog: When Youth Own the Public Education Agenda Originally posted on the Huffington Post. I've devoted my career to researching how young people take up new technologies like computers, mobile phones, and the Internet and make them their own. If we pay attention to what young people do when they are socializing and having fun with these new media, it's clear that they are both highly engaged and learning a great deal. For most young people, however, this is about learning how to get along with their friends, what it takes to get a date, or how to get to the next level in Halo, and not the kinds of academic learning and civic engagement that schools are concerned with. Last month, I paid a visit to the YouMedia space in Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Library Centre in downtown Chicago. YouMedia is all about fulfilling the traditional goals of education, but through innovative means keyed to today's networked and digital media environment.
BYOT in Kindergarten – Engaging New Learners Guest Post by Emily Dunlap @emily_dunlapInstructional Technology Specialist If we are going to use Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) in our schools, why not start with our youngest students? Kindergarteners are digital natives in the truest form because technology has surrounded them since the day they were born. Why should their school experience be any different? If students bring and use their own devices during their first year of school, they will then be the truest form of a digital native – never knowing that there was any other way of learning. Luckily, I am the Instructional Technology Specialist (ITS) at a school where most of our teachers and parents agree and are willing to allow students to bring their devices to school to use as instructional tools. Managing New Tools The teachers sent home our BYOT policy that outlines the responsibilities of the students, parents and teachers when bringing a device to school and must be signed by all three individuals. Like this: