BYOD: Where is it going?
- 1. BYOD: Where is it going? Terese Bird Learning Technologist and SCORE Research Fellow Institute of Learning Innovation CULN Librarians’ Working Group, 26 June 2013 www.le.ac.uk Photo courtesy of Dave Lawler on Flickr
- 2. What shall we talk about? • What is BYOD? • Considerations Burbank Elementary School by MASCD on Flickr
- 3. Bring Your Own Device – what’s the idea? • Students have their own stuff • Students have their own stuff with them in every class • Students’ own stuff might be better than the institution’s stuff • Students know how to use their own stuff • Schools can save money by relying on students’ stuff
- 4. What stuff are we talking about? • Smartphones • Non-smartphones • Tablets • Laptops Enquiry-based learning task – Photo courtesy of Ewan Macintosh on Flickr
- 5. Easy wins • Internet search (Examples of QE1 College and Wirral secondary school) • Calculator • Camera (Flickr, Instagram) • Sound recording (SoundCloud, AudioBoo) • Apps http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/2012/sep/10/mobile-phones-classroom-teaching
- 6. Field work “Tools of the mobile journalism trade” photo by noodlepie, Flickr
- 7. QR Codes on field trips Photo Tbird – taken at Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth
- 8. Social Media • Twitter – students can follow – Alex Bellos @alexbellos – maths – National Geographic @NatGeo – geography – Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield – astronaut • YouTube – Kahn Academy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQMU-lsMb3U “When they’re watching a YouTube video, they don’t know that they’re learning; they think they’re just having fun!”
- 10. Consider the environment • Furniture • Power sockets • Wireless network Georgia Institute of Technology; photo courtesy of jisc_infonet on Flickr
- 11. Consider the environment Cumbria University; photo courtesy of jisc_infonet on Flickr Photo by flickingerbrad on Flickr
- 12. Consider the caveats • “It’s not stranger-danger anymore we need to warn them about; they might bully each other” • They probably have already made a Facebook page for their form • “If you act responsibly, you can use your mobiles”
- 13. “We lifted the ban on mobile phones last term because we realised that the students (some 1600) of them had all got powerful computers in their pockets and we just wouldn't be able to afford to provide all of them with that level of technology.” -Graham Parker, Deputy Head and Head of E-Learning, St. Julian’s School, Newport