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

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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, 2013 19:00-20:30

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Bring Your Own Device: Personal

Digital Tools in the Classroom

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BYOD...

The policy that

dare not speak

its name?

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BYOD

What you need to

know

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What we’ll cover

• The growth of mobile learning

• BYOD in context: other important trends • BYOD in detail

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We’ll need to talk about...

• Timing and context

• Why it’s hard to do the research • What is BYOD?

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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?

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The growth of Mobile Learning

• In the UK at least, mobile learning has been around for more than a decade

• What is mobile learning?

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Benefits of mobile learning

• Person-centred rather than technology-centred

• Flexibility

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Examples of mobile learning

• Digital story-telling

• Sharing work on the class whiteboard

• Sharing with each other and with the teacher – and with yourself

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Current important trends

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The Big Picture: Horizon Report

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less

• Cloud Computing • Mobile Learning

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The Big Picture: Horizon Report

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years

• Learning Analytics • Open Content

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The Big Picture: Horizon Report

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years

• 3D Printing

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Key Trends: Horizon Report

• Hybrid learning • Social networking • Open resources • BYOD

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Key Trends: Futuresource

• Tablets interacting with IWBs and similar • New tablets

• Turnkey solutions, eg Toshiba’s Classroom Tablet Management System

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Key Trends: UK*

• 1:1 schemes, especially... • ...iPads

• BYOD

*Variants also seen in USA, Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe

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Key Trends: BETT Survey

• Tablets and other hand-held devices

• Emphasis on infrastructure and content • Management/control of devices

• Cloud computing

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The BETT Barometer

interactivity Apps and tablets

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Summary of technology trends

• Cloud computing

• Mobile learning: tablets; BYOD; 1:1 computing • Management/control

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Key Ed Trends: EdFutures

• 1:1 Computing • BYOD/BYOT • Digital leaders • Cloud Computing • Flipped classroom

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Key Ed Trends: General

• 21st_{century skills}

• View of kids as ‘digital natives’ (even if not true)

• Kids highly engaged with digital media all the time

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Summary of educational trends

• Open-ness

• Experimentation/innovation eg flipped classroom

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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

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“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

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

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So... Why

now

?

tablets apps cloud Corporate world Society Education (‘21st century skills’)

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BYOD: definitions

• BYOD • BYOT

• BYOD: IOS only

• BYOD: Android only

• BYOD: excluding mobile

• BYOD: bought by the school

Why does this

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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?

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Brainstorm

What are the likely benefits of implementing a BYOD

programme?

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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’

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Realised benefits

• In UK, mainly too early to tell

• Improved attitudes/enthusiasm, but possible experimenter effect?*

• Serendipity*

• Emerging trend: focus on higher order teaching?

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Brainstorm

What are the likely prerequisites of implementing a BYOD

programme?

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General school prerequisites

• Educational vision

• Senior Leadership Team backing • Highly digital

• Willing to experiment • Good relationships

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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

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How digitised were the

schools?

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Where were they on

BYOD ‘journey’?

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What were the

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What were the

actual

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What were the

anticipated

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What were the

actual

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What changes have

occurred so far?

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What lessons have

been learnt?

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Concluding remarks 2

• BYOD: the policy that dare not speak its name?

• Info on schools doing or considering BYOD:

http://www.ictineducation.org/byotmobileqs/

• Articles by me: www.bit.ly/tfbyod

• Other articles on BYOD: www.byot.me

• Contact me: @terryfreedman

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Thank You!

Terry Freedman

May 22, 2013

Memory Bring Your Own Device:

Personal Digital Tools in the Classroom

- An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

http://www.ictineducation.org/byotmobileqs/

www.bit.ly/tfbyod

www.byot.me

www.ictineducation.org