This document discusses a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) framework for transforming education. It describes how BYOD allows students to use their own mobile devices in class, enhancing learning experiences. BYOD changes education by enabling digital citizenship, mobility, Web 2.0 tools, and student-owned active learning. The framework recommends robust wireless, cloud-based tools, and mobile apps to support BYOD. It also discusses implementing BYOD gradually and focusing on teaching/learning. Benefits include incorporating student learning styles and preparing them for future education/careers, while risks include cyberbullying and distraction.
2. Introduction
After reading Learning and Schooling in the Age of Mobilism by Cathleen A. Norris and Elliot
Soloway, I started to rethink how I would like to retool how I use technology with my students. Even
though I currently teach K-5 students, in some circumstances, having students use their own mobile
devices would greatly enhance the learning experience. The following quote from the article sums up
how this disruptive transformation will change education as we know it.
“ . . .following the example set by workers in companies;
students will simply bring their own (mobile) computing
devices into their classrooms! The term coming to be
used to describe this phenomenon is BYOD—Bring Your
Own Device. Even though today BYOD is in its infancy,
the future is clear. In reflecting on his experience at the
ISTE Conference in Philadelphia, June 2011—attended
by upwards of 15,000 educators, researchers, administrators,
and vendors—in a list of the top five take-aways
from that conference, one journalist put BYOD as #1,
commenting: “BYOD is unstoppable.”(Norris, 2011, p.9)
This presentation will describe how schools or districts can implement this framework into
their curriculum.
*Note: BYOD is also referred to as BYOT, Bring Your Own Technology
3. How is BYOD
Transformative
• Digital Citizenship
o Effective AUP
o Digital citizenship skills help to:
• Protect students
reputations
• Develop their voice
• Develop into safe and
savvy internet users.
• Mobility
o Transforms teaching and learning
to anytime, anywhere learning
o 24/7 access to on-line resources
and communities of learning
• Web 2.0 Tools
o Change from teacher-led
passive teaching to student-
owned active learning
o Tools that support interactive
participation
o Students
access, analyze, synthesize and
create digital content
o Students can document and
record work in the field
4. Technology Strategy
• Because technology is evolving rapidly – BYOD
allows programs to evolve and adapt as new
devices and innovations become available.
• Optimizes the value of technology investments
• Keeps the program from becoming obsolete as
new technologies emerge.
• Recommendations:
o Students have a cable-ready device. Either BYOD or devices in the
classroom.
o Robust wireless infrastructure
o Support mobile broadband access for anytime, anyplace learning
o Provide cloud -based tools
o Mobile apps as web-based management systems, content creation
tools, engaging drills, multi-media content, and collaborative tools.
5. Implementation
• Adapted to the needs and goals of school culture
and stakeholders.
• Plan collaboratively with all stakeholders.
• Start small and continually assessed and improved
by teachers, technologists, students, parents and
administrators.
• Empower tech savvy teachers to serve as mentors
for other teachers.
• Focus on improving teaching and learning, not the
devices, throughout the planning.
6. Student Use Agreement
The University of San Diego's Center for Education Policy and Law's report includes a
short and a long version of a sample student-use agreement for "electronic
communication devices," or ECDs. Both versions attempt to answer five key questions.
1. What Qualifies as an ECD?
Cellphones, computers, pagers, or any other devices that allow direct electronic
communication or communication via social networking.
2. When do school ECD rules always come into play?
During school activities on school time, or during school-endorsed activities outside of
school hours.
3. What constitutes misuse of an ECD?
Refusal to turn device off when told, damaging school-owned ECDs, causing an in-
school disruption, using the device for cheating, cyber bullying, or sexting.
4. When can schools punish a student for misuse outside of school?
When misuse causes school disruptions or harms students, teachers, or other school
personnel in a manner that the offending student should have expected.
5. What are acceptable consequences for misuse?
Device searches, verbal and written warnings, confiscations, notices to parents or law-
enforcement authorities, extracurricular restrictions, suspensions and expulsions.
7. Benefits
• Incorporates students’ preferred learning styles into instruction.
• Provides students with immediate feedback in and outside the
classroom.
• Gives students a sense of control of their own learning.
• Allows teachers to quickly recognize students’ learning needs.
• Enhances communication. Transforms passive one-way
teaching into two-way collaboration.
• Increases student engagement. Students are familiar and
enjoy the online environment.
• Provides educators with a tool for teaching students
responsible networking skills.
• Prepares students for their post secondary education and the
workforce.
• Creates professional learning communities for teachers. Able
to share ideas and find best practices.
8. Risks
• Cyberbullying
• Exposure to offensive material
• Compromised online safety
• Publication of private information
• Reduced face-to-face
communication
• Distraction from school work
10. Examples of Social Networking Activities with
BYOD
• Create class page on Facebook.
o Post assignments
o share video presentations
o engage in class discussions.
• Teachers set up study groups outside classroom
o Work on group projects
o Prepare for tests
o Share notes online
• Blogs
o Help struggling students find online tutor
o Take assignments more seriously because of peer feedback
• Upload writing assignments and collaboratively edit
their work
• Students practice a foreign language by
connecting with native speakers
12. Resources
• Richtel, Mitch (2013, March 22) Digitally Aided Education, Using the
Students’ Own Electronic Gear. The New York Times, pp., B1, B2
• Quillen, Ian (2013). Framework Crafter for Students Use of Mobile
Devices. Education Week, Vol. 30, Issue 11, p. 9
• Blazer, Christie, (2012) Social Networking in Schools: Benefits and Risks;
Review of the Research; Policy Considerations; and Current
Practices. Retrieved from
http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED536527.pdf
• Roscoria, Tanya (2011, August 30). Bring Your Own Technology
Empowers Educators to Facilitate Learning from
http://www.centerdigitaled.com/training/Bring-Your-Own-
Technology-Empowers-Educators-to-Facilitate- Learning.html
• Norris, Cathleen A., & Soloway, Elliot, Learning and Schooling in the Age
of Mobilism, (November-December, 2011), Educational Technology
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm0ewV3RPfw
