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FETC 2015 Kicks Off With a BYOD Bang

EdTech Magazine

Classroom Collaboration Curriculum Game-based Learning Hardware Leadership Management Mobility Notebooks Online Learning Policies STEM Tablets' Frank Smith A game-based learning event, executive summit and hands-on sessions are highlights of the opening day of the conference.

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The Beginning of BYOD in New York City Schools

Graphite Blog

On March 2, 2015, the New York City Department of Education lifted its school cell phone ban. Each school is tasked with creating its own cell phone and electronic device policy for students. As a school, we''re taking steps to tailor how our BYOD program will run at PS 16 next year. Could you each talk a little about that?

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The Beginning of BYOD in New York City Schools

The Innovative Educator

By Erin Wilkey Oh On March 2, 2015, the New York City Department of Education lifted its school cell phone ban. Each school is tasked with creating its own cell phone and electronic device policy for students. Students are now allowed to bring cell phones and other personal electronic devices to school.

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Presenting and participating in the EDUCAUSE 2015 conference

Bryan Alexander

This October I’ll be presenting, participating, networking, schmoozing, reconnecting, and generally hob-nobbing with people at the EDUCAUSE 2015 conference in Indianapolis. Topic rubrics include educational contexts (economic, social, policy), selected technological developments, and academic computing.

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How teachers address cell phones in class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Schools with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) programs find a noticeable percentage of students bring mobile phones as their device. Even if the school’s cell phone policy allows use during class but not during tests (as it is with the Department of Education in New York), how do you manage that? And why not?

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6 Pillars to Successfully Integrate Technology In Your 1:1 Classroom

Securly

In the last quarter of 2015, they released their findings in “ Students Computers and Learning: Making the Connection”. Notice the existing classroom culture, consider how the introduction of technology will interact with already established device policies.

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Digital Divide 2.0: a few facts and figures

Neo LMS

We have seen elsewhere in the development of revolutionary technologies that administrators, government, NGOs and policy-makers lag behind the avant-garde of tech development and adoption; (reference cell phones, e-commerce, self-driving cars, the sharing economy, crypto currencies etc.)