Preparing for BYOD -- presentation materials for KySTE Fall Event

Presentation resources

KySTE Fall Event, 1-1/BYOD Institute (Oct. 28, 2013). Contact me for details and feedback.

• AnticipatingBYOD_2013 (PPT) 
• Same title in PDF

Below is the text content of the PPT -- an outline of the talking points for the presentation.

The Technicals

1. Can we support it?

• Be prepared to help all platforms onto your wifi - buy them, and try them! 
• Write the limits of your support of, and liability for, personal devices into your AUP.

2.  Secure?

• CIPA-compliant? Student use of login accounts/email 
• Make sure your system can register and associate devices with login accounts. 
• Design AD groups to scale access based on training (“Digital Drivers License”)

3.  Will it connect and work? 

• Not just wifi capacity, but bandwidth all the way upstream. 
• “Transparent proxy” eliminates proxy dependency of apps and browsers 
• Encourage the selection of resources (tutorials, videos, etc.) which are “device neutral”

4.  FCPS Design and Use 

• EnteraSys hardware. 
• Full 1-1 coverage for high school, middle school classrooms (1 WAP/classroom, several in group spaces). 
• Elementary schools are “close.” 
• 40,000 students, 4,000 adults, 58 schools 44,000 registered devices. Most days show 7,000 active.

Fears 

1.  Student Monitoring, and Off-Task Behavior 

• Begin the discussion now about the impact of more autonomous student work on lesson plan design (more later). 
• Leverage a Learning Management System to manage links, and monitor student access to materials and activities.

2.  The Scary “Cloud” 

• Make teacher, school, and district online presences interactive. 
• Have teacher participation in crowdsourced knowledge construction and discussion a part of their professional responsibilities. Give PD credit for such. 
• Use online storage for teacher professional responsibilities and resources.

Instructional Practice 

1.  The disappearing lecture 

• Start the move away from the teacher role of information deliverer (“Sage on the Stage”), and towards facilitation (”Guide on the Side”). 
• Find and leverage online materials, media, and experts. 
• Examine the “Flipped” classroom concept.

2.  Differentiation 

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• Increase focus on project-based learning and collaborative learning. 
• Promote classroom practice which can support a variety of activities at once, including an increase in student autonomy.

3.  The “Cloud” 

• Select a student storage platform which works for you age group. Use it now, yourself! 
• SkyDrive, SkyDrive Pro, Google Drive, Dropbox, Learning Management Systems (Edmodo, Moodle, etc.)

4.  Assessment and Accountability 

• Increase the use of online and electronic assessments, especially formative. 
• Add changes in teacher’s instructional practice (rather than just student outcomes) to teacher accountability processes.

Fairness 

1.  Access to devices 

• Provide small numbers of student-use classroom computers for projects which require them. 
• Purchase and make available devices to take home for students who do not have them.

2.  The “Digital Divide” (broadband and 3g access outside of school)

• Expand alternative access through ESS/extended school library hours, and community partners such as city libraries and businesses. 
• Connect to parents through the AUP process.