BYOD : DIGITAL DEVICES IN THE CLASSROOM

Kay TeehanSchool Technology Services

Why BYOD? :The Calvary Isn’t Coming!• 1/3 of fourth graders and 1/4 of eighth graders are

functionally illiterate. • 1/3 of American students do not graduate high school. • An average of 7,200 American students drop out of

school every day. • Among the top 30 industrialized countries in the world,

the United States ranks 21st in Science and 25th in math.

No One is proud of these statistics! But: Our present system just isn’t working!!! WHY?????

Many Reasons!

• This is truly the digital age and our students have been born and grown up with the new technologies. Outside of school, they are constantly "plugged in". These students have never lived in a time when the Internet wasn't available, and cell phones did not exist. For our students today, there is no divide between "technology" and their daily life.

We are trying to teach a new breed of 21st century Digital-age students using old 20th century Industrial-age methods.

This is truly the digital age and our students have been born and grown up with the new technologies. The average teenager texts 109 times a day, a majority of teens have social networking sites, and the combined use of media by students today averages from 6.5 to 10 hours per day, much of it in a multi-tasking environment.

We need to come up with a different way to motivate, excite, and entice students to learn!

• The Prediction1

• The Protocol2

• The Pedagogy3

The 3 Parts of BYOD

Prediction• To increase test

scores, students must be motivated to learn

• Let’s teach them using the technology they use to learn outside of the classroom

COMBINED WITH THE RIGHT PEDAGOGY, AND USED RESPONSIBLY, TECHNOLOGIES IN LEARNING CAN SERVE AS:

1. THE MEANS FOR STUDENTS TO PURSUE LINES OF INQUIRY AND INTEREST IN THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES AND BEYOND

2. ACCESS TO DIGITAL CONTENT AND DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS THAT PROVIDE MULTIPLE PATHWAYS TO LEARNING.

COMBINED WITH THE RIGHT PEDAGOGY, AND USED RESPONSIBLY, TECHNOLOGIES IN LEARNING CAN SERVE AS:

3. OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENT CHOICE IN THE USE OF MULTIMEDIA TO EXPLORE, RESEARCH, THINK, SYNTHESIZE, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, COMMUNICATE, AND EXPRESS IDEAS IN HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTS.

4. CONNECTIONS TO REAL-WORLD ISSUES AND TOPICS THAT BRING AUTHENTICITY TO SCHOOLWORK.

Research supports this new pedagogy!

The technology learning curve

Student Learning

1 yr 2 yr 3 yr

BYOD - BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE - IS THE MOST ECONOMICAL, PRACTICAL, AND DOABLE WAY FOR SCHOOLS TO MEET THIS CHALLENGE. IT IS THE PROMISE OF 21ST CENTURY INSTRUCTION, AND POLK COUNTY HAS PUT IN PLACE PROTOCOL TO INSURE SAFE AND RESPONSIBLE INTERNET USAGE AND HELP TEACHERS SUCCESSFULLY CREATE THE BEST LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR OUR NEW BREED OF STUDENT.

Protocol

• Plan• Permissions• Best Practices• FAQs

Create a Plan

Start Small

BYOD Success

Get Permissions

Curriculum is the same: Strategies are different:

• myPolkApps• Flipped Classroom• Problem Based Learning• Students as Teachers• Personalized Learning• Blended Learning• Blogs, Wikis, etc.

LET’S LOOK AT A REAL EXAMPLE OF A BYOD STRATEGY….

FLIPPED CLASSROOM

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:WHAT IF YOU HAD SUPER STRENGTH?

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YALSA Academy- What Makes BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Work.flv