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Tips for BYOD Equity

A Principal's Reflections

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives are being adopted by districts and schools around the globe. In theory this all sounds fantastic and there are many benefits that I have witnessed firsthand after successfully implementing a BYOD initiative over five years ago at my high school. In any case the ones who suffer are our students.

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Streamlining BYOD With ClassLink

A Principal's Reflections

After a semester long pilot program with the senior class during the spring of 2011, we rolled out our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program to the entire student body in September. Throughout the entire 2011-2012 school year, we worked to refine our approach, implementation, and learning outcomes for the program.

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The best BYOD tech tools for the Common Core classroom

eSchool News

Our Board of Education then announced we were now a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) district, but did not provide the professional development time to support this initiative. Next page: 4 “Keep it Simple” tool categories for BYOD and more. My friend was overwhelmed by the plethora of tools available.

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Change is a Mindset

A Principal's Reflections

These indicators have become so embedded in the minds of those judging our schools and work that we, like everyone else, worked hard to focus only on initiatives that would hopefully produce favorable outcomes in those areas. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) implemented in 2011. See what CBS New York had to say.

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Education and Augmented Reality — Really?

Neo LMS

For an ed-tech blogger I hold perhaps a controversial view: I wonder if some AR is not in fact a diversion from actual learning, and if teachers are spending too much time creating incredible, immersive worlds, for quite narrow learning outcomes. Additionally, is it not also true that nothing worth getting is easy to get? Functionality.

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Q&A: Leila Nuland on How to Build Equitable Computer Science Curricula

EdTech Magazine

What I can tell you anecdotally from the work that we've done here at Hanover is that, even with a BYOD program, there's still equity challenges with that because not every student has a mobile device to bring. . A lot of schools will get grants through Google and other tech firms, or organizations like the Gates Foundation.

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Richardson Independent School District – Texas, USA

eSchool News

Supports different BYOD operating systems & perfectly integrates in the network. This is a must in an age when Bring Your Own Device practices reign supreme and every classroom is inhabited by a mix of Google, Apple, Android and Microsoft devices. BARCO SOLUTION. KEY BENEFITS. Improves student learning & drives engagement.

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