Perhaps now would be a good time to set up a BYOD Bring Your Own
Device working group to address using mobile, personal and pocket
devices in open learning.
I'm looking into smartphones and tablets in education. I teach at a
community college and I am working with a K-8 science and technology
school, so that pretty much covers the education spectrum. I see kids
with these wonderful learning environments in their pockets at school
and everywhere they go. I want them used as much for learning as they
are for entertainment. Sooo much potential! Now if we can just figure
out how to make it happen...
There are plenty of challenges but that's what WE are good at!
WikiEducators are a very resourceful lot so collaboration on this
topic seems like a natural thing to do.
With over 650,000 apps out there finding the "good" ones is a big job.
Figuring out how best to use these devices to support learning is
really interesting and important.
Are you working on specific projects? Have you resources, lists,
information that you would be willing to share? Have you prepared
guides, tutorials for students and/or faculty? Have you thoughts,
ideas about pedagogy that we are going to need to think about?
Perhaps there is an opportunity to compare notes and/or pool
resources. I'm open to suggestions.
Hi Valerie,
This is a very good idea.l hope we have to set up a page or discussion
forum on wikieducator to discuss and share our ideas about tablets in
education along with our personalised opinions on BYOD.This is the need of
the hour and l personally use skype for teaching and hence use tablet
device and wish to know and meet other educators who share the common
platform on the wikieducator too.Those who are more interested to know the
developments in open source software in this regard can get its benefit too.
Regards
Balqis
On Jun 17, 2012 3:55 PM, "Valerie Taylor" <vtay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps now would be a good time to set up a BYOD Bring Your Own
> Device working group to address using mobile, personal and pocket
> devices in open learning.
> I'm looking into smartphones and tablets in education. I teach at a
> community college and I am working with a K-8 science and technology
> school, so that pretty much covers the education spectrum. I see kids
> with these wonderful learning environments in their pockets at school
> and everywhere they go. I want them used as much for learning as they
> are for entertainment. Sooo much potential! Now if we can just figure
> out how to make it happen...
> There are plenty of challenges but that's what WE are good at!
> WikiEducators are a very resourceful lot so collaboration on this
> topic seems like a natural thing to do.
> With over 650,000 apps out there finding the "good" ones is a big job.
> Figuring out how best to use these devices to support learning is
> really interesting and important.
> Are you working on specific projects? Have you resources, lists,
> information that you would be willing to share? Have you prepared
> guides, tutorials for students and/or faculty? Have you thoughts,
> ideas about pedagogy that we are going to need to think about?
> Perhaps there is an opportunity to compare notes and/or pool
> resources. I'm open to suggestions.
> ..Valerie
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Hi Valerie,
This is a very good idea.l hope we have to set up a page or discussion
forum on wikieducator to discuss and share our ideas about tablets in
education along with our personalised opinions on BYOD.This is the need
of the hour and l personally use skype for teaching and hence use tablet
device and wish to know and meet other educators who share the common
platform on the wikieducator too.Those who are more interested to know
the developments in open source software in this regard can get its
benefit too.
Regards Balqis
On Jun 17, 2012 3:55 PM, "Valerie Taylor" <vtay...@gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps now would be a good time to set up a BYOD Bring Your Own
Device working group to address using mobile, personal and pocket
devices in open learning.
I'm looking into smartphones and tablets in education. I teach at a
community college and I am working with a K-8 science and technology
school, so that pretty much covers the education spectrum. I see kids
with these wonderful learning environments in their pockets at school
and everywhere they go. I want them used as much for learning as they
are for entertainment. Sooo much potential! Now if we can just figure
out how to make it happen...
There are plenty of challenges but that's what WE are good at!
WikiEducators are a very resourceful lot so collaboration on this
topic seems like a natural thing to do.
With over 650,000 apps out there finding the "good" ones is a big job.
Figuring out how best to use these devices to support learning is
really interesting and important.
Are you working on specific projects? Have you resources, lists,
information that you would be willing to share? Have you prepared
guides, tutorials for students and/or faculty? Have you thoughts,
ideas about pedagogy that we are going to need to think about?
Perhaps there is an opportunity to compare notes and/or pool
resources. I'm open to suggestions.
..Valerie
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nowadays the concept of teaching has totaly changed after the introduction
of virtual learning in schools. because now internet has become cheap,
available in most of the village, also government has been trying to give
better and quality education in a very affordable cost. The devices related
to computer like laptop, netbook, tablet are become easy to purchase.
If we could make the lessons to read in ebook format, then it would be a
trtremendous change in education.
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Valerie Taylor <vtay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps now would be a good time to set up a BYOD Bring Your Own
> Device working group to address using mobile, personal and pocket
> devices in open learning.
> I'm looking into smartphones and tablets in education. I teach at a
> community college and I am working with a K-8 science and technology
> school, so that pretty much covers the education spectrum. I see kids
> with these wonderful learning environments in their pockets at school
> and everywhere they go. I want them used as much for learning as they
> are for entertainment. Sooo much potential! Now if we can just figure
> out how to make it happen...
> There are plenty of challenges but that's what WE are good at!
> WikiEducators are a very resourceful lot so collaboration on this
> topic seems like a natural thing to do.
> With over 650,000 apps out there finding the "good" ones is a big job.
> Figuring out how best to use these devices to support learning is
> really interesting and important.
> Are you working on specific projects? Have you resources, lists,
> information that you would be willing to share? Have you prepared
> guides, tutorials for students and/or faculty? Have you thoughts,
> ideas about pedagogy that we are going to need to think about?
> Perhaps there is an opportunity to compare notes and/or pool
> resources. I'm open to suggestions.
> ..Valerie
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Thanks for your interest. I can set up an area for information and discussion in WikiEducator. However, I'm wondering what to call it. It depends on the focus so how narrow shall we make it?
BYOD is specific to what students would own of their own but most aren't open. Perhaps this is a bit limiting. Mobile learning is pretty broad. Does this cover everything?
On Sunday, June 17, 2012 6:25:17 AM UTC-4, Vtaylor wrote:
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Hope you don't mind me replying here. I'm just thinking through the things which need to added to the list. You know I'm always banging on about networks, so this maybe a good point to see how the deveices (the front end) and the networks which they log onto (the back end) will come together.
The main difference in perspectives is in the 'inside the institution('s network) approach", which we can compare to the "outside in approach" (probably the most useful is to limit this perspective to the National Research and Education Network in each country). I use NRENs because in many countries many scholls, unis, colleges, etc are directly connected to the NREN (or REN = Regional Education Network, which are part of a National one). In the case of Internet2 (US) and others, many other "anchor institutions" (libraries, public broadcast stations) use the same "backbone".
So, as far as the "inside out" approach,that 'thejournal" article illustrates the institution's network manager's approach pretty well. So far as the "outside in", we have so many wireless "access point" technologies. But the primary consideration is the idea of setting up one point or "a mesh" which: 1. Can make installation and maintenance easier, cheaper, faster, etc. i.e. use 1 microcell rather than putting in so many "hotspots". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcell 2. Have a number of "cells" in each institution, which using the same security, standards, apps, domains, etc make up a "cloud" of institutions. E.g. Many universities already offer an eduroam account, so that a user can log on to their stuff regardless of which uni (network) in the world they may be in at the time. You can imagine the benefits if we could roam around a country and just log on to a network (e.g. public library) to do a bit of work, and share the same apps
I hope this isn't too far left field as i know the technical stuff bores most of WE. But it kinda changes the thinking about where and when you bring your own device.
On Sunday, June 24, 2012 12:00:13 AM UTC-4, simonfj wrote:
> Hi Valerie,
> Hope you don't mind me replying here. I'm just thinking through the things > which need to added to the list. > You know I'm always banging on about networks, so this maybe a good point > to see how the deveices (the front end) and the networks which they log > onto (the back end) will come together. > ...
