Schools are needing increasing amounts of expensive educational technology at a time when budgets are shrinking. Many have started to explore BYOD policies - Bring Your Own Device - as a practical solution to integrate cost effective technology into their educational programs. With the convergence of widespread broadband and the growth of powerful, platform independent web based tools BYOD has finally arrived as an effective educational alternative to other plans that require expensive purchasing and maintenance. Viewed within a realistic perspective of both its benefits and limitations BYOD can provide a workable solution for the many schools seeking to upgrade their educational technology.

1. Building an Effective BYOD
Educational Technology Plan
Sam Gliksman
samgliksman@gmail.com
Twitter: @samgliksman
http://ipadEducators.ning.com

2. Sam Gliksman
 Director of Educational Technology
 Consultant and speaker
 Working with 1:1 and BYOD programs
 Founder of iPads in Education website
http://iPadEducators.ning.com
 Twitter: @samgliksman
 Email: samgliksman@gmail.com

3. what?
how?
why?

4. Today’s Objectives
 Define the characteristics of a 21st
century learning environment
 Develop a strategy for an
effective and sustainable
educational technology plan

5. What are our educational goals?

6. We prepare children for life OUTSIDE school

7. We live in a time of
EXPONENTIAL CHANGE

8. Computing power
Today’s washing machine has more computing
power than all NASA's computing resources when it
first landed man on the moon

9. Capacity
Price of 1 gigabyte of memory in 1981?
$300,000
Price of 1 gigabyte in 2012?
10 cents

10. Ubiquity… it’s everywhere
Anyone have
a cell phone?

11. Ubiquity… it’s everywhere
A recent UK survey reported that children
between the ages of 7 and 16 are more likely to
own a cell phone than a book

12. Connected – Social Networking
Facebook didn’t exist prior to 2004…
Today 1 out of every 8 people on the planet
has a Facebook page

13. If context is important…
Children starting elementary school today will
graduate in 2024
What will the world look like in 2024?
How do we educate and prepare children for a
world we don’t know anything about?

15. Different world. Different students.
They’re not the same learners we wer

16. They’re not the same learners we were…
50 hours a week with technology
They live in a multimedia world
Their media is all color
They prioritize visual learning
They learn best through trial and error
They constantly connect and collaborate
They access information that is live and linked

17. Different learning styles…
What do you do when you open this box?
What would your students do?
They learn through experience, trial and error

18. Building Your Educational Technology Plan
1. Clarify your educational vision

19. What should learning look like in the 21st century?

20. 21st century learning is …
Connected
© Chris-Håvard Berge

21. Learn anywhere, any time and from anyone

22. 21st century learning is…
Mobile.
Anytime-Anywhere.

23. 21st century learning is…
New Skills and Literacies

24. Information Literacy (one example)
Where do I find information?
How do I know it’s accurate?
Who wrote it?
How do I organize and categorize content?
From WHOIS.com
Name:Don Black
Organization:Stormfront
City:West Palm Beach
State/Province:FL
Organization:Stormfront
Server:STORMFRONT.ORG

26. Constant change requires independent learners
with new skills for changing work environments

27. 21st century learning is…
Personalized
© pixietailsboutique

28. 21st century learning is…
Physical and Virtual Learning Spaces
© Alfred Kypta

29. 21st century learning is…
Student-centered; experiential

30. 21st century learning is…
Multi-Media

31. 21st century learning is…
© SuttonHoo

32. Building Your Educational Technology Plan
1. Clarify your vision
2. Select effective technology access model

33. 3 Technology access models
1. Computer Lab or Mobile Cart
Limited access
Desktop, laptop, netbook, iPad
Usually requires booking
Shared equipment
School financed
School maintained
School controlled

34. Can you afford to keep up…?
It took 22 years to sell 55 million Macs
It took 5 years to sell 55 million iPods
Less than 2 years to sell 55 million iPads
How long will your equipment be relevant?

35. 3 Technology access models
2. One-to-one Technology Programs
Anytime, dedicated access
Decide on equipment
Used at school, sometimes home
School purchased, parent-financed
School maintained
School controlled
Uniformity of applications

36. 3 Technology access models
3. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Anytime-anywhere, any device
Minimum standards
Parent financed
Personalized
Already common in higher education and business (72%)
Need to determine if it works for your school
Requires extensive planning, infrastructure investment
and training

37. … so you thought you were banning them??
ACSD study
 69% of US high schools ban mobile devices on campus
 In schools that ban mobile devices, 63% of students
use them anyway
 47% say they can text message with eyes closed

38. … Yes, but how many have a “device”?
 5 billion cell phone plans in 2010 worldwide,
over 30% are smartphones in USA
 About 40 percent of younger teens (12-17) in
the USA have smartphones
 11% of the US population have a tablet
computer – and that number is skyrocketing

39. Will the parents support it?
 67% of parents would purchase mobile devices for
their children to use in school
 66% support use of online textbooks
 Essential to get buy-in from entire community –
including teachers and parents
 Communicate…develop and deliver clear
“Responsible Use” policies detailing usage policies

40. Why decide on a BYOD policy?
 Cost effective, right timing
School
 No repairs and maintenance technology
 More engaged and motivated students demands
 Typically more robust, up to date and personalized
 Greater accountability
 Different learners, different needs Available
 Over 30% of school IT decision makers now budgets
expressing an interest in BYOD
But there are also some challenges…

41. Control is expensive and requires that you own the devices
Old model: Controlled, filtered and exclusive environments
BYOD model: Uncontrolled and less filtered environments

42. What about security?
Create a separate, segmented network for students that only
allows access to the Internet. No internal network access.
 Do I know you? Only allow access to authenticated users

43. Digital Divide
 Know your population
 Poll anonymously
 Use savings to buy equipment
 Share devices as needed
 Access at home?
 Devices dropping in price

44. Platform independent tools
Web based apps work on most platforms and can
accommodate common software needs … and more
Create online space for sharing and collaboration – that
works on all devices including iOS

45. Monitoring and filtering
 Web filter provides internet access controls
 Can impact access speed
 Authentication enables monitoring
 Insist on wireless use only

46. “Responsible Use” policy
 Where can devices be used and when?
 Rules for taking home
 Browsing “do and don’ts”
 Social networking policies
 Messaging policies
 Privacy and safety policies
 Wireless network only
 Authentication requirements

47. Planning your BYOD budget
Wireless infrastructure - with capacity for growth
Wiring and switches
Purchasing (or leasing) school owned devices
Ongoing faculty training
Network and traffic management tools
Content filter

48. Utilize common features
 Most have apps and audio, many have video
 Classroom polling and quick tests
 Podcasting, radio broadcasts
 Attach probes for measuring data
 Digital storytelling
 Email and share any media using Posterous
 QR codes – quests, book reviews and more
 Language learning – speaking and reading
 Creating movies
 Use on field trips – photos, audio, data
 Data organization tools (eg. Diigo)
Posterous example – sharing media

49. Building Your Educational Technology Plan
1. Clarify your vision
2. Select appropriate technology access model
3. Invest in wireless infrastructure

50. Wireless connectivity
 Essential… robust and reliable
 Planning bandwidth needs is critical to success
 Elements to consider:
 What connection comes in to campus?
 How well is it distributed within campus?
 Allow for growth
As they use more multimedia, you need more download
Creating and publishing will need larger upload speeds

51. Building Your Educational Technology Plan
1. Clarify your educational vision
2. Decide on student technology model
3. Invest in wireless infrastructure
4. Create a virtual learning environment

52. “BLENDED LEARNING”:
Virtual, vibrant space for learning and knowledge exchange
 blogs, discussion forums, wikis, polls, portfolios, community
interaction, live discussions

53. Building Your Educational Technology Plan
1. Clarify your educational vision
2. Decide on student technology model
3. Invest in wireless infrastructure
4. Create a virtual learning environment
5. Minimize investment in the 3 S’s

54. Minimize Investment in 3 S’s: Servers, Storage & Software
Incidentals:
• Depreciating value
• Battery backup
• Data backup
• Air conditioning
• Physical security
• Software security
• Repair and downtime
• Network consultant
• Software upgrades
Do you have a “server closet”?
• Start over - replacement

55. Minimize Investment in 3 S’s – Servers, Storage & Software
Cloud computing:
 supports BYOD or any other tech. program
 reduces hardware, software and IT costs dramatically
 adds significant functionality

56. Minimize Investment in 3 S’s – Servers, Storage & Software

57. Why Google Apps?
 Gmail, Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations etc
 Free … and powerful
 Free feature updates
 Anytime-anywhere access
 Simple sharing and collaboration
 Compatibility
 40 mill. users, 4 mill. Businesses
 Did I mention it was free?

58. Building Your Educational Technology Plan
1. Clarify your educational vision
2. Decide on student technology model
3. Invest in wireless infrastructure
4. Create a virtual learning environment
5. Minimize investment in the 3 S’s
6. Importance of teacher training

59. The need for training…

60. Select and train your 15%...

61. Culture change is most effective swelling from
the bottom up
Send your change agents to conferences
Success is contagious. Have teachers
demonstrate and train from within
Allocate time to have workshops at school
Culture change never happens at a single event
- it requires an ongoing commitment

62. It’s not about the device… it’s what you do with it
Remember that today’s technical innovation…
quickly becomes tomorrow’s party joke

63. "If we teach today
as we taught yesterday,
we rob our children of
tomorrow"
- John Dewey

64. Sam Gliksman
Email: samgliksman@gmail.com
Twitter: @samgliksman
iPads in Education community site
http://iPadEducators.ning.com