BYOD in the Classroom

Time magazine recently published an article titled "Texting 1, 2, 3: Schools Test 'Bring Your Own Technology' Programs."  Here's an excerpt:

[A] larger national trend in schools known as “Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT),” in which students are allowed to bring their mobile devices to class. Advocates argue that if young people are already glued to them, then teachers and principals should come up with educational uses for them. And at a time when state budget cuts are increasing––at least 30 states are providing less funding to schools now than they did four years ago––it makes sense that educators would experiment with BYOT as they try to figure out how to do more with less. But some experts say schools may use BYOT as an excuse to avoid providing essential services to students.

Resources for Intermediate and Secondary Teaching

This resource comes for the April 2012 issue of Today's OEA.  Like Innovative Classroom for Elementary Teachers, the HippoCampus website offers 6-12+ teachers with a collection of digital media resources for the math, science, history and humanities contents.  Registration with a free account is required.  

ITSC 2012: Reaching Your Kids with Your Presentation Style

Set the Stage:

• Music: What kind of environment can I create for kids with music?
• Relationships: How can I work the room relationally to help the kids start out the day right?
• Avoid Pet Peeves:  How does my teaching style irritate my kids?

ITSC 2012: Closing Keynote

Redesigning Education: Digital Literacies and the Future of Learning  

Presented Craig Watkins ~ Speech Highlights 

• Author of The Young & the Digital, partner with the MacArthur Foundation 
• One of the questions we should as ourselves is how are students learning in the digital age?  Learning is happening in so many different places, not just in schools.
• The degree to which students are using social media/network sites are two fold: friendship driven and interest driven.
• Students will need a set of Hard and Soft Skills to be considered Digitally Literate: networking, multitasking, crowdsourcing, demonstrate technical and media skills, collect, interpret, and curate data, understand the difference between private and public profiles, digital citizenship, and multi-modal communication.