BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

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"You are at the dining room table, put your phone away...", we have all heard that particular phrase and probably most of us have said it a time or two. I admit that I have. Today, things have changed. Stay at Home Orders and Distance Learning have required us to change our outlook. Change our outlook on students, teaching, curriculum and personal devices. Now we are asking students to pull out their own devices and learn. To learn a half of a semester(s) worth of classwork on your phone, tablet, Chromebook, personal computer etc...In the article Gadgets Go To School: The Benefits and Risks of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), author Patricia Bruder explains the benefits of students having their own devices. Bruder presents some basic rules and offers a general checklist for getting started and creating a curriculum related to BYOD. 

According to Bruder, "BYOD (bring your own device) or BYOT (bring your own technology) gives students the option of borrowing electronic devices from the school or using their own equipment." This goes to the idea that students who are comfortable and familiar with using technology, are more engaged and more apt to participate in a classroom environment that encourages the use of technology. Can students get and/or be distracted, yes. There will be the students who will challenge the learning process by visiting sites that are off limits such as "social media networks" etc...but who hasn't looked a text message and/or other email, while working or in a meeting. Even an important staff meeting. 

This year, possibly the most challenging year of a students academic life, we have asked them to step up, change their entire way of learning and hopefully get something out of the remainder of the academic school year. Not to lose any steps in their learning process but hopefully to learn, even learn in a different manner and come out of this school year with some additional technology techniques that they may share...When we resume our normal school life.         

Works Cited:

Bruder, Patricia. "GADGETS GO TO SCHOOL: The Benefits and Risks of BYOD (Bring

Your Own Device)." Education Digest, vol. 80, no. 3, Nov. 2014, pp. 15-18.

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