BYOD= Learning BYOD= Learning in their Handsin their Hands

Teaching Students to Use Personal Devices for Learning

Dawn NelsonInstructional Media & Technology Coordinator

ISD 279, Osseo Area SchoolsMaple Grove, MN

nelsond@district279.orgDawnn82@gmail.com

BYOD= Learning BYOD= Learning in their Handsin their Hands

Inspiring Teachers to Launch Student Learning with Personal Devices

Dawn NelsonInstructional Media & Technology Coordinator

ISD 279, Osseo Area SchoolsMaple Grove, MN

nelsond@district279.org

Dawnn82@gmail.com

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•Conference Blog - www.libconf.com

OutcomesOutcomesFollow one school’s path on a BYOD journey

Identify prevailing questions and communications about student devices

Consider benefits and barriers

Embrace the chaos---this world is new and unsettled, ever-changing

Share & Share & DiscussDiscuss

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•Innovation isn’t necessarily •new technology.

•Instead it’s a way of thinking, creating, communicating.

•Instead of ‘I Teach’

•It’s About ‘You Learn’

What is BYOD?What is BYOD?Wikipedia says:

a concept where people use personally owned devices which are not owned by their employers or schools

Bring relates to bringing the device to the environment where the service is provided. In some cases it is physically limited to a location (wireless, certain rooms), but more often it is time and location independent.

Your refers to the person bringing the device.

Own refers to device ownership of students and teachers.

Devices include smartphones, tablets, ereaders, laptops, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYOD

BYOD in SchoolBYOD in School

Students bring devices they (probably) already own

Wireless system provided in the school

Incorporated into learning

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ISD 279, Osseo Area Schools

First proposed - Spring, 2009 , Tim Wilson, CTO - Osseo Area Schools

First training - August, 2009, 3 schools, 14 teachers

‘Seeded’ with 3 devices per classroom - School requested (locking cabinets included)

One school, 2 teachers - started in the spring

+++ (Pluses)+++ (Pluses)After First YearAfter First Year

Platform/Device Agnostic

Counteracts ‘Keep Away’ or ‘Gotcha’

Moving toward authentic learning

5 additional schools - 45 teachers

No devices offered

Training more specific but only one day

Still a pilot

Year 2 - 2010-2011

Still on a per teacher basis

13 elementary schools, 2 junior high schools, 4 senior high schools = 19 out of 25 schools

Osseo Senior High School - first entire open school

No devices, No training

Still a pilot - data is self-reported

Year 3 - 2011-2012

"My students have their laptop with them at all times and decide when to use it.  They might have different ideas, more open ideas than I do.  I'm not yet sure how to use the laptops, and I welcome the student input."Shelly Drake, 5th Grade Teacher

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Student Response Student Response SystemsSystems

• Free

• Poll Everywhere

• Google Forms

• Licensed

• Naiku

• eInstruction

• SMART

Access to InformationAccess to Information

• Looking up information

• Note taking

• Texting to share information

• Bell work

Photo and Video Photo and Video ProjectsProjects

• Video Creation and Editing -

• Students recorded skits on iPods and edited at home. The videos were downloaded and used for the morning announcements.

• Photos -

• After videoconference with Tuskegee Airmen, devices use to take pictures of Susan Morgan, daughter of one of the Airmen.

• Photography class - taking photos to edit

Google AppsGoogle Apps

• Take notes

• Create presentations

• Google Voice - World Language

• Students call number teacher selected.

• Report information

• Fluency assessment

Ebooks and ReadersEbooks and Readers

• Ereaders

• Reading books during leveled reading

• Recorded books - leveled reading

• Apps

• Classroom novels - shared note-taking

• Mackin VIA

• Read collection ebooks through the web

• Individual download service for student devices

• Tumblebooks - web based

QR CodesQR Codes

• Book reviews

• Links to student-shared work

• Information about teachers

Authentic Audience Authentic Audience for Writingfor Writing

• Blogging and responding to blogs

• Writing for the web

• Online collaborative work

• Wikis

• Student Web Pages

Authentic Audience - Authentic Audience - Social NetworkingSocial Networking

• Teacher and Club FB Pages

• Edmodo

• Sometimes to a worldwide audience

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•Kevin Curwick

•17-year-old high school senior

•Saw something he didn’t like

•Started something new

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•Huffington Post

•Ryan Seacrest

•Today Show

Other ObservationsOther Observations• Security: “This has not been a

problem.”

• Sharing: Student have quickly shared their devices with each other.

• Number: About 40% of my class has permission to do Copernicus.

What We RequireWhat We RequireAdministration approval

Communication with parents

Contract with parents at this time is site-based

Don’t require specific signature, just as part of handbook behavior agreement

Our Next Steps Our Next Steps Support website

Strengthen our Virtual Library websites for students

Staff Development

User Group meetings throughout the 2012-2013 school year

Data Collection

Why It WorksWhy It WorksCTO advocacy for student access

Supportive district administration and school board

Wireless access - 100% of our sites

Tech Support

Google Apps for Education

What Else Works?What Else Works?CIPA compliant filtering

No blocking

Tech Support?Tech Support?

Nope

Understanding with teachers and tech support that they are not required to support devices, but encouraged as they are able

No charging stations

Practice ChangesPractice ChangesLocked cabinets

Locked classrooms

Add pieces about respect of time and place to handbooks.

Remind students about the importance of protecting their data

Answering Answering ConcernsConcerns

Wireless CapacityWireless Capacity

Be sure your system is robust

Public network

Register the devices?

Students Behaving Students Behaving BadlyBadly

Behavior issues, not technology

Student Engagement in learning

Teacher must remain active

Digital Citizenship

Revise AUP

Define it in your behavior agreement

Reinforce consistently

Weaver Lake PLP- http://weaverlakeplp.wikispaces.com/5.+What+We%27ve+Learned

Digital DivideDigital Divide• Pew Survey

• 77 % - ages 12 to 17 own a cell phone

• 31 % - 14 to 17 - smart phone

• 62% - incomes under $30,000

• Pew Internet Survey - Digital Differences

• 50% of adults with incomes over $30K have cell phones

Links to studies on the links and resources page.

Digital DivideDigital Divide

http://mashable.com/2012/10/15/wireless-reach-students/

Low Income Students’ Test Scores Leap 30% With Smartphone Use

Staff DevelopmentStaff Development

• Edina - Go Wireless

• Williamson (TN) County Schools-

• Osseo C4 Model of Learning

• Department website

• PD Playlist

Focus on the Tools - Focus on the Tools - Or the Process? Or the Process?

• “I’d rather a teacher knows a couple tools and lots of ways to use them, than lots of tools and only a single way to use them. Staff development that is teacher, rather than technologist, led would be a good start.” (Doug Johnson, Blue Skunk Blog, http://doug-johnson.squarespace.com/blue-skunk-blog/2012/8/2/larry-cuban-and-teachers-making-tech-choices.html

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• Osseo - Comprehensive Technology Integration

Why Move Ahead?Why Move Ahead?

Cost savings

Our customers

Increasingly digital world

For learning

Why Move Ahead?Why Move Ahead?

• Higher order thinking

• Students have the devices

• Connect low income students with information

http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/09/24/5-mediarich-lesson-ideas-to-encourage-higherorder-thinking.aspx

Why Move Ahead?Why Move Ahead?

• Higher order thinking

• Students have the devices

http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/09/24/5-mediarich-lesson-ideas-to-encourage-higherorder-thinking.aspx

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Mobile Learning

BYOD

1:1

Mobile Learning

BYOD

Authentic Learning

1:1

Mobile Learning

BYOD

Authentic Learning

1:1

Flipped Classroom

EBooks/ Online

Textbooks

Blended and Online Classes

Things to Think AboutThings to Think About

Or - How We Bruised our Or - How We Bruised our Shins on the Coffee Table Shins on the Coffee Table

So You Don’t Have ToSo You Don’t Have To

Decide and DoDecide and DoNo three year pilots

1. Write your proposal - researched and clear

2. Administration Support School Board support

3. Communicate with principals or other site admins

4. Have training planned and web resources created

5. Find leaders at each site

Site StepsSite StepsFor Teachers

More than one person

School Library support

Communicate Often

Parent Communication

Parent meeting or forum

Ongoing ‘Good News’

Know Your OpponentKnow Your OpponentThe Tech Guys

Management

Filters

Teachers

Those who aren’t quite there yet

Gary Stager - http://stager.tv/blog/?p=2397

Join the Adventure orJoin the Adventure orEmbrace the ChaosEmbrace the Chaos

Project Copernicus Moodle Site

Build a PLN

Twitter - BYOD or BYOT (more hits for education)

Diigo Group - BYOD/BYOT-K12

How About YouHow About You

Dry and ComfortableSafe

BYOD is not this.

More like whitewater rafting.

Beautiful

Survived the ride!

Thank YouThank YouTwitter - @dawnrnelson

Facebook - Dawn Nelson

Blog - http://blogs.district279.org/library-techconnect/

If I advertise it will I begin to write to it?

ISTE Aligned Staff Development Program - 18 credit technology certificate, Grad credit from Hamline University - beginning January, 2013