Devices in the Classroom

1. Devices in the Classroom

2. Why BYOD? • Technology is REQUIRED • Students NEED it • Not enough MONEY

3. Pros Cons • When students use their own devices, they take care of their own 'training.‘ • Usage of BYOD is seen as a privilege & students stay on task. • BYOD offers potential cost savings since fewer school devices are needed. •  BYOD offers learning opportunities at times the students choose. •  BYOD in school provides opportunity for teaching respectful/appropriate use. • Real world • Students leave chargers at home. Devices run out of power. • Exacerbates issues of inequity of access. • Students forget to bring devices. • Technical infrastructure may need addressing before implementation. Expensive. • BYOD will encourage students to be 'off task.' •  Planning for a lesson with devices whose capability you don't know needs more care & thought. • Teachers will need instructional PD in getting the most from BYOD. Pros and Cons

4. Popular Myths… BYOD will cause students to be distracted. Teachers across the globe are finding that with the right strategies and building blocks in place, learners are much more engaged in connected classrooms. BYOD deepens the digital divide. “Students who do not have personal technology devices have greater access to school-owned technology tools when students who bring their own devices to school are no longer competing for that access.” Tim Clark, district instructional technology specialist with Forsyth County Schools (GA)

5. Why won’t it Work in My Classroom? "If your target audience isn't listening to you, it's not their fault, it's yours" Seth Godin

6. Environment • Create Good Classroom Management • Use the Technology, don’t complain about it • Engage your students • Quit doing all the talking • Use time wisely, Let them look it up • Know that YOU do NOT own the learning • Help them own the learning

7. Cell Phones If the cellphones have Internet access, students can use them to look up information online. Cellphones double as calculators and as cameras. And unlike iPads, e-readers, tablets, smart phones, laptops or desktop PCs, these devices are ubiquitous. Moreover, as the statistics indicate, text-messaging seems to be the preferred method of communication of teens. http://www.edutopia.org/mobile-learning-resources

8. Texting is often viewed as the new form of passing notes in the back of the class.

9. But a variety of new tools have been released recently that are tapping into the popularity of texting and the ubiquity of cellphones and are demonstrating that these can, in fact, be used for educational purposes: • Remind101: Remind101 allows teachers to send text messages (and email) home -- to students and/or to parents -- to offer reminders and updates for class. Remind101 allows teachers to communicate with their classes without either teacher or students having to share their phone numbers. • Poll Everywhere: As the name suggests, Poll Everywhere allows teachers to use cellphones for polling in class. Students text their responses, using their cellphones to give feedback, answer questions, take quizzes. • Celly: Celly provides SMS-based group messaging. Classrooms can use the service to take quick polls and quizzes, filter messages, get news updates, take notes, and organize and hold study groups. The groups can be public or private, moderated or open. • StudyBoost: StudyBoost allows students to study via SMS-based quizzes. The questions can be self- or teacher-created, and can be multiple choice or open-ended.

10. Cell Phones… • As with any technology, cellphones do require policies for acceptable use, and students need guidance on exactly what that means. But these new tools do give educators a range of options should they decide to let students turn their cellphones on in class. Many of these tools have been designed with the classroom setting in mind, and have privacy policies, moderation features, and analytics so that teachers can feel more confident in how texting is being utilized.

11. QR Codes Create a QR code 'business' card for your classroom (Beginner)Create a QR code that points to your class' website or blog. Print them out and hand out to parents on Back-to-School Night or at parent-teacher conferences. This is a fun and easy way to share your classroom with families. Create an internet-based scavenger hunt (Intermediate) For any unit your students are learning, you can create QR codes, print them on paper and either place them in a center or spread them out. Each code can point to a site you want your students to use for an activity. This could either be an informational site (i.e. find information) or a brain teaser (i.e. get the ideas flowing). This can help keep your students focused and provide access to a variety of resources when you don't have enough computers for each student. Create a school-wide/community-wide scavenger hunt (Advanced)Using the app SCVNGR (for both Android and iOS), create a scavenger hunt around the school. Using the QR code option for each location's check-in, post a QR code in each location for each participant or team to scan. Each code gives clues to the next location. This hunt could be to teach students about different areas in the school or community, or it could be based around a content area. • So what is a QR code? It's short for "Quick Response" and it is (usually) in the shape of a square. It looks like a bar code with black splotches instead of lines. * http://www.edutopia.org/blog/qr-codes-education-mary-beth-hertz

12. Cell Phones… • IN-CLASS READINGS AND HANDOUTS. Smartphones can also be used productively in the classroom as eReaders for books and handouts. You can place all student handouts into DropBox folders (see “Dropbox A Multi-Tool for Educators”). Students can access Dropbox space and open reference material without printing it up or asking for a new copy during class assignments. • Of course, for traditional reading materials (textbooks and paperbacks), you can use mobile apps like Kindle eReader, Nook App, iBooks, or Google’s Play Books (just to name a few). Many of them host free content and some allow you to load content of your own. This is a great way to save money on book purchases and photocopies. Using these apps, students can even highlight and annotate.

13. ORGANIZING RESEARCH. “Camera scanners,” which capture information using the phone’s built-in camera, allows students to take pictures of documents (even books with those bendy pages), crop them, and then enhance them for ready viewing. You can create notebooks of documents (if you are copying sections of a book or article) and then store them on the device or export them (as a photo image or PDF) to Google Docs, DropBox, Evernote, and more. It’s a great tool for you or your students to organize research materials. One of the best apps for this purpose isGenius Scan+  – available for iOS, Android, and Windows based phones. • Evernote is another great application that students can use to organize their notes and images, take voice notes, write notes by hand, gather web clippings, sort emails, and more. You can put them into pre-categorized folders (class, project, theme, etc) as well as give them “tags” which makes them easy to search and sort later. • Most people can grasp the power of having Google in their pocket, but few recognize that the mobile version of Google is much more than a web browser. One of the cool features is its ability to perform searches using images. This feature, called Google Goggles, is a creative way to search the Internet for image-based content (watch the video). See how it was used in a creative field trip experiment at the local museum. • These mobile Google capabilities offer a great way for students to explore material on the fly, using a variety of media. Any content, images, etc. that they find can be sent to a Google Drive account. * http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/11/four-smart-ways-to-use-cell-phones-in-class

14. Have students leave a voicemail for a historical figure (using google voice) • Send pics, texts on a topic to Padlet • Take pictures of notes • Record the teacher’s lesson

15. History by Michael Milton (42ThinkDeep on Twitter) What better way to make the Enlightenment come alive than to have my World History students create Blogger sites and set up a conversation on Twitter! In our activity, students were hired by a consulting firm to bring the ideas of the Enlightenment to a modern "tech-savvy" audience. In small groups, they assumed the identities of various philosophers (Voltaire, the Baron De Montesquieu, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Mary Wollstonecraft and Jean Jacques Rousseau) and wrote a blog post to reintroduce them to the world and to discuss how their ideas were incorporated into the United States of America. The posts were then shared under a common hashtag, and students, as the philosophers, began interacting with one another.

17. Chromebooks

18. Chrome Extensions • http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=318678 • http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=789165 • http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/03/13-good-chrome-extensions-and-apps-for.html • http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=789165 • http://www.livebinders.com/media/get/NDk2MDE4Mg==

19. Ipads iPad is definitely a gadget of huge potential in education. Many schools in the States and Canada are adopting it as a learning tool within their curriculum. Developers have already started creating e-textbooks with enhanced mobile compatibility. More important, there are now several apps that are easy to use and that enable teachers to create their own teaching content to go on iPad. *http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/12/top-7-guides-on-how-to-use-ipad-in-your.html

20. Reasons why iPad is important in education • iPads are capable of providing enhanced ebooks featuring images, video and audio. • Students are  using a wide range of different smartphones and  are already acquainted with touch screen technology • According to Neilson Survey," 35 % of tablet owners said they used their desktop computers less often or not at all now, and 32% of laptop users said the same. Most tellingly, more than 75% of tablet owners said they used their tablet for tasks they once used their desktop or laptop for." • iPads (  and almost all tablets ) fits in with students lifestyles. Their light weight, portability, ease of use make them much easier to take and use in the classroom than a laptop or a netbook. • iPad's responsive and smooth scrolling touchscreen made it ideal for reading content in the classroom. • No more heavy textbooks. Gone are the days when you would carry a hefty backpack full of books, the light weight iPad is a great alternative with its integrated etextbooks all in one place. • iPad provides a limitless amount of information through wireless technology. Students can have a free access to tons of reference apps for facts, questions, statistics, articles, dictionaries, data and many more.

21. Apps for Education • Best Ipad Apps • More Good Apps • Essential Apps for Educators • http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=789165

22. Educational Apps

23. Ipads Calculus by Brighid Boyle Recently, Ms. Boyle's calculus students were given an end of semester project that prompted them to teach a calculus lesson through the medium of a music video. The students filmed the videos on their iPads and then edited through iMovie. Each group had two weeks to create a script and storyboard, and then film, edit and present the lesson. The results were not only engaging, but also informative. Consider it the musical version of Khan Academy. The results are displayed below. Enjoy, share and learn! The Lazy Quotient Rule stephanieSwiszcz

24. Offline

25. Using the Devices Altogether • Plan ahead – make sure the ‘App’ you want to use will be available to all users. • Make arrangements for those with no device • Have a plan - B

26. Troubleshooting • 5 Things You Can Do To Fix iPad Wireless Issues