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Moving Schools Forward With BYOD

A Principal's Reflections

Greg is the Director of Technology at Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District and an Adjunct Professor and course developer at the Graduate Schools of Education at Monmouth University and Drew University. Students brought out a variety of devices including Blackberries, iPhones, and Smartphones to answer multiple choice questions.

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Balance the Delivery

Ask a Tech Teacher

Years ago, I took the lead in writing a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy for my school site, which was later adopted by my district. At the time, I thought this was a novel approach to address the lack of technology for students. Seven years ago, I proposed a day without technology to the site administration.

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A Practical Way to Increase Access to Mobile Technology Regardless of Age

A Principal's Reflections

With a pedagogy first, technology second if appropriate, approach to instructional design, educators can begin to support and enhance lessons with an array of tools. However, if a well-designed assessment is in place, then the natural course of action is to allow learners to select the best tool for the task.

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Power Up Your Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

If you were to go back in time and pinpoint when disruption began to take off, I would wager that it correlates with the proliferation of the smartphone. Had it not been for the smartphone their innovative apps might never have come to fruition or experienced immense scalability as they have. respectively by 2020.

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). Undergraduate Smartphone Ownership. What if we were to design the course with the smartphone learner in mind?

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How to make your school IT budget go further

Vizor

Leverage E-rate, Title I, and other federal & state funds Make sure you take advantage of various funding sources available for technology in education. IDEA ensures children with disabilities have access to free and appropriate education, services, and resources including technology.

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Mobile learning: The good and the bad

Neo LMS

Everywhere we go, here and there, people always seem to have a mobile device in their hands, be it a smartphone or a tablet. Now owning a smartphone is like losing half our lives. Laptops, tablets and smartphones prices have all decreased since their first inception, making them available to anyone.