BYOD:Where is it going?

Terese BirdLearning Technologistand SCORE Research FellowInstitute of Learning Innovation

CULN Librarians’ Working Group, 26 June 2013

www.le.ac.uk

Photo courtesy of Dave Lawler on Flickr

What shall we talk about?

• What is BYOD?• Considerations

Burbank Elementary School by MASCD on Flickr

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

What stuff are we talking about?

• Smartphones• Non-smartphones• Tablets• Laptops

Enquiry-based learning task – Photo courtesy of Ewan Macintosh on Flickr

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

Field work “Tools of the mobile journalism trade” photo by noodlepie, Flickr

QR Codes on field trips

Photo Tbird – taken at Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth

Social Media

• Twitter – students can follow – Alex Bellos @alexbellos – maths– National Geographic @NatGeo –

geography– Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield –

astronaut

• YouTube – Kahn Academyhttp://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!”

Consider the environment

• Furniture• Power

sockets• Wireless

network

Georgia Institute of Technology; photo courtesy of jisc_infonet on Flickr

Consider the environment

Cumbria University; photo courtesy of jisc_infonet on Flickr

Photo by flickingerbrad on Flickr

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”

“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