I love the concept of BYOD (Bring your own device) on a number of levels. We have a successful BYOD program at the senior school and it works. From a administrative and financial aspect BYOD makes sense. You don’t have to provide the students with either laptops, leases or access to machines the cost savings [...]
Next week my students and I are presenting at a conference in Sydney via video conference. They are presenting to teachers about how they use technology to enhance their learning. The presentation will invove me introducing and concluding the presentation, but the really important stuff is coming from the students. They are explaining how they [...]
There is a direct relationship between the level of use a student has in their personal computing device and the level and frequency of damage, misuse or presence of the device. This a trend that I have seen in many schools. Where the laptop, tablet or ipad is a core and essential element of the [...]
As an educator and an advocate of technology, I believe one 0f the biggest stumbling blocks of the effective and appropriate integration of Information and Communication technologies into the classroom is access. As teachers we must seize the moment as it arises. Computers in a lab are often unaccessible when the need arises, so computers [...]
If you have watch Sir Ken Robinson’s presentation at TED TALKS you will have been amazed by the vast amount of data he mentions. Tony Karrer has compliled a list of the key facts from this presentation. Here is the link to his blog entry – Click Here Here are the links to the TED [...]
Link: Laptop program to writing improvements This is an interesting article. Maine has a laptop program, they have put 30,000+ laptops to middle years students. They have now started to compare anecdotal and assessments based results from before and after the program and have found that writing (its important to note that this is a [...]
