This presentation is a considering of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) approach to mobile learning, especially for considering in use by schools and 6th form colleges. This presentation formed part of the Colleges-University Leciester Network Librarians' Working Group session on 26 June, 2013 at University of Leiceter.

1. BYOD:
Where is it going?
Terese Bird
Learning Technologist
and SCORE Research Fellow
Institute of Learning Innovation
CULN Librarians’ Working Group, 26 June 2013
www.le.ac.uk
Photo courtesy of Dave Lawler on Flickr

2. What shall we talk about?
• What is BYOD?
• Considerations
Burbank Elementary School by MASCD on
Flickr

3. Bring Your Own Device – what’s the idea?
• Students have their own stuff
• Students have their own stuff with them
in every class
• Students’ own stuff might be better than
the institution’s stuff
• Students know how to use their own stuff
• Schools can save money by relying on
students’ stuff

4. What stuff are we talking about?
• Smartphones
• Non-smartphones
• Tablets
• Laptops
Enquiry-based learning task – Photo courtesy of
Ewan Macintosh on Flickr

5. Easy wins
• Internet search (Examples of QE1 College
and Wirral secondary school)
• Calculator
• Camera (Flickr, Instagram)
• Sound recording (SoundCloud, AudioBoo)
• Apps
http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/2012/sep/10/mobile-phones-classroom-teaching

6. Field work
“Tools of the mobile journalism trade” photo by noodlepie, Flickr

7. QR Codes on field trips
Photo Tbird –
taken at Centre
for Alternative
Technology,
Machynlleth

8. Social Media
• Twitter – students can follow
– Alex Bellos @alexbellos – maths
– National Geographic @NatGeo – geography
– Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield – astronaut
• YouTube – Kahn Academy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQMU-lsMb3U
“When they’re watching a
YouTube video, they don’t know
that they’re learning; they think
they’re just having fun!”

10. Consider the environment
• Furniture
• Power sockets
• Wireless
network
Georgia Institute of Technology; photo courtesy of
jisc_infonet on Flickr

11. Consider the environment
Cumbria University; photo
courtesy of jisc_infonet on Flickr
Photo by flickingerbrad on Flickr

12. Consider the caveats
• “It’s not stranger-danger anymore we
need to warn them about; they might
bully each other”
• They probably have already made a
Facebook page for their form
• “If you act responsibly, you can use your
mobiles”

13. “We lifted the ban on mobile phones last
term because we realised that the
students (some 1600) of them had all got
powerful computers in their pockets and
we just wouldn't be able to afford to
provide all of them with that level of
technology.”
-Graham Parker, Deputy Head and Head of
E-Learning, St. Julian’s School, Newport