Bring Your Own Device: Personal Digital Tools in the Classroom - An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

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1 Bring Your Own Device: Personal Digital Tools in the Classroom - An Idea Whose Time Has Come? Terry Freedman Independent educational ICT consultant, Publishes the ICT in Education website and the ICT in Education archive website, and the newsletter Computers in Classrooms. Wednesday, May 22, :00-20:30 Israel time [GMT+2]

2 Bring Your Own Device: Personal Digital Tools in the Classroom An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

3 BYOD... The policy that dare not speak its name?

4 BYOD What you need to know

5 What we ll cover The growth of mobile learning BYOD in context: other important trends BYOD in detail

6 We ll need to talk about... Timing and context Why it s hard to do the research What is BYOD?

7 But first... A little about me, and my interest in this area A little about you... Poll 1. How many of you are contemplating BYOD? 2. How many of you have started BYOD? 3. How many of you are interested in a mainly academic sense?

8 The growth of Mobile Learning In the UK at least, mobile learning has been around for more than a decade What is mobile learning? Does mobile learning need a computer?

9 Benefits of mobile learning Person-centred rather than technologycentred Flexibility Serendipity allowed

10 Examples of mobile learning Digital story-telling Sharing work on the class whiteboard Sharing with each other and with the teacher and with yourself Assessment for learning made easy

11 Current important trends Or... Why now?

12 The Big Picture: Horizon Report Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less Cloud Computing Mobile Learning

13 The Big Picture: Horizon Report Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years Learning Analytics Open Content

14 The Big Picture: Horizon Report Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years 3D Printing Virtual and Remote Laboratories

15 Key Trends: Horizon Report Hybrid learning Social networking Open resources BYOD Rethink of teacher s role

16 Key Trends: Futuresource Tablets interacting with IWBs and similar New tablets Turnkey solutions, eg Toshiba s Classroom Tablet Management System Cloud computing

17 Key Trends: UK* 1:1 schemes, especially......ipads BYOD *Variants also seen in USA, Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe

18 Key Trends: BETT Survey Tablets and other hand-held devices Emphasis on infrastructure and content Management/control of devices Cloud computing Focus on individual schools rather than LAs

19 The BETT Barometer interactivity Apps and tablets control

20 Summary of technology trends Cloud computing Mobile learning: tablets; BYOD; 1:1 computing Management/control

21 Key Ed Trends: EdFutures 1:1 Computing BYOD/BYOT Digital leaders Cloud Computing Flipped classroom

22 Key Ed Trends: General 21 st century skills View of kids as digital natives (even if not true) Kids highly engaged with digital media all the time

23 Summary of educational trends Open-ness Experimentation/innovation eg flipped classroom Digital leaders/student voice/rups

24 Key Trends: The wider picture Mobile-cellular penetration rates stand at 96% globally; 128% in developed countries; and 89% in developing countries. 9.5% of internet traffic in the UK in December 2011 came mostly from mobile phones and tablets. BYO: BYOD in the workplace; BYOL Bring Your Own Learning

25 In the worst-case scenario,... young people see what they learn in school as increasingly irrelevant to their skills and interests. Technology will be the battleground for this conflict, with schools banning powerful tools for personal learning and social networking... Mike Sharples discuss

26 The main barriers to developing these new modes of learning are not so much technical as social. UNESCO discuss

27 So... Why now? tablets Society Corporate world Education ( 21 st century skills ) apps cloud

28 BYOD

29 BYOD: definitions BYOD BYOT BYOD: IOS only BYOD: Android only BYOD: excluding mobile BYOD: bought by the school Why does this matter?

30 Pros and Cons Pros Saves money Kids have latest tech Kids have tech with them Reduction in technical support costs? Focus on higher-order skills Cons E-safety issue? Haves vs have-nots Fear of muggings Class management issue? Increase in technical support costs? Media perception

31 Brainstorm What are the likely benefits of implementing a BYOD programme? discuss

32 Perceived benefits ie reasons for adoption Cost of buying computer equipment And sustaining it (VC not FC) Access to latest kit Technology where and when you need it Personalised learning (own ecosystem ) zeitgeist

33 Realised benefits In UK, mainly too early to tell Improved attitudes/enthusiasm, but possible experimenter effect?* Serendipity* Emerging trend: focus on higher order teaching? * Seen in 1:1 schemes too

34 Brainstorm What are the likely prerequisites of implementing a BYOD programme? discuss

35 General school prerequisites Educational vision Senior Leadership Team backing Highly digital Willing to experiment Good relationships

36 Specific school prerequisites Hi-spec wi-fi Trust: RUP not AUP Open to changing pedagogy Need to engage parents and others Know what pupils already have

37 My research: meta-analysis

38 How digitised were the schools?

39 Where were they on BYOD journey?

40 What were the perceived advantages?

41 What were the actual advantages?

42 What were the anticipated challenges?

43 What were the actual challenges?

44 What changes have occurred so far?

45 What lessons have been learnt?

46 How long does it take?

47 Who were consulted?

48 Concluding remarks 1: Impact

49 Concluding remarks 2 BYOD: the policy that dare not speak its name? Info on schools doing or considering BYOD: Articles by me: Other articles on BYOD: Contact

50 Thank You! Terry Freedman Memory Bring Your Own Device: Personal Digital Tools in the Classroom - An Idea Whose Time Has Come? May 22, 2013