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Kia ora. Mark Osborne from Core Education I want to tell you about something really
exciting that we've been working on we're about to launch
it's a course that helps schools design and implement
successful BYOD programs or bring your own device
this is really exciting because bring your own device really his
huge potential to enable us to empower our learners
to give them a wider range tools and really to personalize learning for them
so that they get the most out of their education
The course is a combination of
online, web conferencing and
face to face sessions, so
you're able to work at your own pace but you also part of a team of people who
are working through similar things to you
and we're also drawing in people from
around the country who have expertise in this area. There's three parts to the course:
the first
is the 'why of BYOD'. Why would you go this way?
How does it align with your school's vision, your mission, your purpose.
And how do we make sure that what we do with BYOD actually complements and
enhances what we're already doing?
The second part is the 'how' of BYOD
so what are the approaches and strategies they will enhance the BYOD
experience
and this might be questions around
do you specify the device the students bring or do you allow them to choose it
for themselves
It also might be questions to do with technical infrastructure
how will yours look? Because we know that yours is going to need to meet
your students' needs and is probably going to be different from school down
the road
There's also the 'what' of BYOD: day so practical classroom based tools
so that we the students arrive with devices they're doing things
really pedagogically valid way not just
making use of the device to do the things that keep them busy
There's also a range of practical tools
for securing the devices for managing them in the classroom for making
teaches life easier
so that teachers can focus more time on what they do
best which is focussing on student learning. There's also the change leadership processes that go
alongside
any sort of strategy like this because we need to make sure that we bring
everybody through from students to
teachers to the community really for something like this to be successful
we need everybody to be a part of it to be
and committed engaged so would love to see you online
looking out for the CORE Education BYOD course
It's just what you need if you're exploring bring your own device.