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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
What if you could Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to school?
Back in 2003 when Professor Cathy Davidson announced giving free iPods to all entering freshmen at Duke University, critics denounced the idea. How could music players become tools of education? Well, the students (and teachers, even reluctant ones) eventually found innovative uses for personal digital devices. Now, digital devices are a commonplace on virtually all college campuses. In fact, more and more high schools are turning into BYOD (bring your own device) schools by allowing students and staff to bring in their own personal digital devices, such as phones, iPads, iPods, tablets, and laptop computers. Once again, students and teachers are finding innovative uses for these devices in high schools (and even middle schools). If you were allowed to bring in your personal digital device to high school, what would you bring and how would you use it? Please take the poll to the right and post a comment below. In your comment please note if you are a student, teacher, administrator, or any other applicable description.
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Here is your chance to seek and achieve change in policy. Write your best comments to convince the school administration to allow students to bring their own devices to school and use them for educational purposes during school. What do you say?
ReplyDeleteMy opinion as a High school math teacher:
ReplyDeleteStudents should be allowed to access the web through mobil devices during class. As we struggle to introduce technology to the classroom we are telling students with computers in their pockets not to use them for learning purposes- this makes no sense. Students need to monitor their own appropriate use to not be distracted by social media and texting. Network filters should be engaged at all time so that devices attached to the school network do not have access to social media or inappropriate sites.