Jam TodayEmbedding BYOD into

Classroom Practice

Associate Professor David Parsons

Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand

Jam Tomorrow

“The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today. It MUST come sometimes to 'jam today', Alice objected.”

– Lewis Carroll, ‘Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There’ (1871)

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BYOD

• The Bring Your Own Device revolution is changing the very nature of teaching and learning, and disrupting the traditional roles of teachers and students

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BYOD Widely Accepted

• 35.2% of New Zealand secondary schools, 20% of intermediate schools and 6.9% of primary schools already operate a BYOD policy

• 75.7% of those surveyed supported the idea of BYOD in schools, 14.3% were still undecided, while only 1 in 10 surveyed did not support the idea

• (Adobe, 2012)

The Project

• First New Zealand state school to require parents to provide devices for their children (iPad2)

• 2 years completed• Started with Year 9 (13/14)• Now percolating through the whole

school

Infrastructure Investments

• (out with the) Old– specialist computer labs– lease of computers– technical support– maintenance

• (in with the) New– ultra-fast broadband and wireless– teacher devices– professional development– management software

Beyond Infrastructure

• Common vision teaching and learning• Willingness to embrace change• Stakeholder support

– board of trustees– parent body

• Good pastoral system– software – contracts– sanctions

Teaching & Learning Concepts

• Flipped classrooms• Project based learning• Flexible physical spaces• SAMR model

(Ruben Puentedura)– not very deep, but

popular with teachers

Learning spaces

• Education as a journey through different environments (Scott Morris)– the cave (independent, reflective learning) – the campfire (listening to and absorbing

knowledge)– the watering hole (informal learning,

discussing, creating meaning with others) – the mountain top (presenting, publishing

and demonstrating understanding)

Generic Device Use

• Digital media (multiple literacies)– enhancement

• Food Technology - videos of cooking• Science - photos of experiments in

lab book

– transformation• Technology - student created

videos of demonstrations• project based learning - creating,

sharing, reinterpreting

The role of social media

• Students are already ‘living’ on social media– does/should the school reach out through

such tools?• Educational social media tools

– Facebook v. Edmodo?

Challenges of device use

• Internet connectivity, speed and coverage

• Historical issues - lack of preparation– not prepared for the flipped classroom

• Basic digital skills – efficient web searches, appropriate sites.

• Finding the right app– trouble with Flash and iCloud

Some conundrums

• Should non iPad owners be required to share with iPad owners to use apps?– how does this make them feel?

• Should valuable digital resources on the ‘wrong’ platform be abandoned?

• Which applications should be consistent?

• What are generic areas of digital literacy?

BYOD for Specific Subjects

• Mathematics– games and on-line resources

• Physical education, – performance analysis

• Dance– Ubersense slow motion video analysis for

sports, used for dance• Languages

– video and analyse role play

BYOD for Specific Subjects

• English / Drama– mind maps used to analyse action,

storyboards and characters• Sociology

– Wikipedia is not enough• Music

– composition, virtual instruments, sheet music

BYOD changes…

– student activities– how work is presented– how teachers provide feedback – how work is showcased to the world– how students collaborate– how staff collaborate– the role and nature of home learning

Lessons Learned

• The new ‘normal’– 1-to-1 devices are ‘normal’- what next?

• Some boundaries are clearer– when to use the device, and when not

• Some boundaries are more blurred– tools from life or tools from school?

• Not just flipped – a more fluid model of teaching