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Setting up BYOD in your School/District
Presented by: Sandra Paul
Director of Technology
Sayreville Public Schools
October 11, 2013

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Federal Communication Commission
(FCC)
The recently released
National broadband plan made
recommendations to the FCC
to improve education in the
US by supporting and
promoting online learning
through the expansion of
broadband technology.

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ConnectEd

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Connected generation
 4,000,000 children are posting content to the Web
everyday
 15,000,000 youth use internet messaging
 Twitter - Twitter is now processing 50 million
Tweets a day, which comes to about 1.5 billion
Tweets a month. Royal Pingdom recently reported
that Twitter passed one billion Tweets a month last
December and measured about 1.2 billion in
January. On a daily basis, Royal Pindom was
measuring 27 million Tweets a day back in
November, 2009. But the latest data comes from
Twitter itself. (2/2010)
 Facebook -With over 500 million users, Facebook is
now used by 1 in every 13 people on earth, with
over 250 million of them (over 50%) who log in
every day. (2/2010)

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High School Scenerio

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What is BYOD?
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) - aBring Your Own Device (BYOD) - a
concept where people useconcept where people use
personally owned devices whichpersonally owned devices which
areare
not owned by theirnot owned by their
employers or the school district.employers or the school district.
Sometimes referred to as BringSometimes referred to as Bring
Your Own Technology (BYOT).Your Own Technology (BYOT).

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Can’t beat them, join them
Blended learning
experiences both
inside and outside of the
classroom.
Ubiquitous
Technology/Computing

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Pros for BYOD (#edchat)
Extends tech resources
already used in school
Reduces expenditures
Provides 24/7 access
Students control their own
learning

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Pro for BYOD (#edchat)
Ubiquitous technology
Student stay on task
Decrease in student theft
and disruptive behavior
Delivery of e-books and e-
textbooks

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Cons for BYOD (#edchat)
Equity among students
Issues with WiFi and
network filters
CyberBullying

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Cons for BYOD (#edchat)
Applications/Tools are not
common on all platforms
Student forgets to bring
device to school
PD for teachers on using
BYOD in the classroom.

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Devices in the classroom

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Infrastructure concerns
Different operating
systems
Type of access to
provide for
administrators,
teachers, students.
Filtering systems

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Infrastructure concerns
Bandwidth of wireless
IP addresses
Virtualization
Cloud Computing

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Details of Infrastructure
Home devices
Network Structure
•Setting up VLANs
•Wired network versus Wireless network
•Security Policies
•Separation of district devices from teacher/student
devices
District devices
Students
Teachers
Admin
Parents

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School/District network
 WiFi standards – 802.11 a, b, g, n
 Number of devices per WAP
 Seamlessness of WiFi access with
the building
 Virtual desktop access
 Hybrid cloud
 Using online storage – iCloud,
Google, Live.edu, Microsoft 360,
Moodle, etc.

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Approaching IT
Data security
Applications as software or
as a service
Devices
Bandwidth issues
Approach to desktops
Research and Articles

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Approaching the School Board
Technology access time for
teachers and students
Consumerization of IT
eTextbooks
Invitations to tech
conferences
BYOD Articles

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Approaching the School Board
STEM or STEAM
Virtual School
PARCC
Online courses/Blended
Learning
MOOC/ Open University

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How will your teachers be affected
by BYOD?
Teachable moments
No longer the sage on the
stage
Classroom management
Student code of conduct
Changes in Instruction
Changes in Learning

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 Class resources
◦
Students would be able to download all class
materials needed on a chapter-by-chapter
basis
 Edmodo
 Teacher web
 Research resources
◦ Students would be asked throughout the
course of a class period to research
questions, information, or activities (content
based or researched based)
 Definitions
 Primary source document searches
 Current events
Classroom Application

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 Not only does BYOD affect the students,
the teacher can greatly benefit as well
 Leads to a change in pedagogy for the
teacher
 It will allow teachers to better instruct
their students in an ever-changing,
technologically advancing environment
 Teacher -> student based lessons
Change in Pedagogy

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BYOD in the classroom
 Blogging
 Social Media
 Individual Responses
 Polling
 Collaboration
 Scheduling
 Multimedia projects
 Project-based learning
 Geocaching, etc.

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BYOD in the classroom

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TeacherStudent Parent
District obligation regarding BYOD
• Device responsibilityDevice responsibility
• SecuritySecurity
• Who is responsible for the data?Who is responsible for the data?
District Technology Policy

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Device
Filter
Student
Who is responsible?
Responsible Use Agreement
CIPA and FERPA Guidelines
Online Behavior

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Sayreville Process
Technology policy and AUPs
Pilot program in High School
Changes in instructional
process
Investigation of hybrid cloud
Infrastructure upgrades
– Switches
– WAPs
– IP Addresses

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BYOD Schools/Districts
 New Milford High School
 Bridgewater Raritan School
District
 Monroe Township High School
 Forsyth County Schools in Georgia
 St. Charles Place, New Orleans,
La.
 Allen Independent School District
 Hanover Public Schools

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Examples of BYOD responsible agreements
 Meigs Magnet School
 Bridgewater Raritan, NJ
 Logan City School District
 CoSN – examples on website
 ISTE – examples on website
 Hanover Public School
 Wolf Creek Public Schools
 Allen Independent School District

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Quick review
Types of technology
Infrastructure
Board of Education
members
Teachers
Tech policy and AUPs

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Thank You for listening
Contact Information:
Email: sandra.paul@sayrevillek12.net
Twitter: @spaul6414
Website: http://sspaul.blogspot.com
Cell: 908-433-7076
LinkedIn: Sandra Paul

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Resources
 http://www.proconlists.com/list/edu
cation/byod-in-schools/863
 “Bring your own device” catching
on in schools.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/
04/29/bring-your-own-device-
catching-on-in-schools/