4. Mobile Technology
Leading Learning in ICT
Miles Berry15 October 2012
Handheld Devices
Smart Phones
iPod Touch / Firefox OS
Tablets
Apple case studies
• Cedars School
• Flitch Green
• Bowes School
• Riverdale
• St Aidans
• Malpas Church Junior
• Burnt Oak
Why schools don’t need ICT
Our schools are now a desert swept with the winds of yesterday's technology; meanwhile our students can be found drinking from an oasis of smartphones, smart apps and smart interfaces. They have answers to questions we haven't even dared to ask. They outsmart us at every turn.
Teenagers upgrade their mobile phone every 12 months. Even the socially disadvantaged are one step ahead of their school's ICT. That's not a problem. That's a huge opportunity schools should grasp. It's an opportunity to save money and upgrade our thinking about ICT.
Even last year's smartphone will operate as a calculator. And a book reader. It will translate the Bible from the original Hebrew and can differentiate Sin(x). It can pinpoint both the Battle of Hastings and the Belt of Orion. It will act as a word processor, a piano and a spirit level. Not bad for a bit of kit that your school didn't purchase and doesn't maintain.
Schools don't need ICT. It's coming through our doors every day. We just need to adopt and adapt a little bit.
Yorston, 2010
Ofcom, 2010
BYOT
“The market is a far better judge of the appropriate personal digital technology than any group of ‘ICT experts’”
• Technology is chosen by the student and/or family
• Personalisation of teaching and learning in and out of school
• In-school technology use is an extension of students' existing technology use
• Respect for student ownership of technology and information stored on it
Lee, 2012
BYO?
Draft guidelines for a school which wished to permit pupils’ use of their own personal devices
