BYOD Bring Your Own Device working group?

[Valerie Taylor]

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

[Balqis Thaahaveettil]

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

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[Sean Corbie]

Valerie,

My name is Sean Corbie, Director Technology Services at COSTAATT, and I would be to interesting in joining a BYOD group.

 

Regards

 

Sean Corbie

COSTAATT

Director, Technology Services

Office: (868) 625 5030 ext 5229

Cell: (868) 759 8962

E-mail: sco...@costaatt.edu.tt

[SREEKUMAR SC]

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.


sreekumar

..Valerie

[Vtaylor]

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?

[Vtaylor]

http://wikieducator.org/BYOD

Here is a placeholder with a few thoughts. Please add / change as you see fit.

Let's find out what interests people have and we can take it from there.

BTW - There is an article in a recent issue of THE Journal
http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/05/10/are-you-ready-for-byod.aspx

..vt

[Balqis Thaahaveettil]

Thanks Valerie Taylor,
lets hope to make the best out of it through sharing common interests
Regards
Balqis

[simonfj]

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.

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.

[Vtaylor]

Thanks. You are looking at yet another aspect of the whole BYOD infrastructure. That's why these are so interesting. You make some good points.

Update the WE page or create a separate sub-page if you prefer to capture your thoughts within the framework of http://wikieducator.org/BYOD

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.

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