bit.ly/jcsphone
PAM BATCHELOR
Personalized
Learning
AnYwhere
with Your Phone!
AMY STANLEY
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HELLO!
Amy Stanley and Pam Batchelor
Digital Learning Team of Johnston County
You can find us on Twitter at @jcsdlt
amystanley@johnston.k12.nc.us and
pamelabatchelor@johnston.k12.nc.us
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Image credit: http://wilkes.discoveryeducation.com/tarman/2010/06/18/interview/
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“ 73% of American teens
report having access to
smartphones.”
-Pew Research Center, 2015: http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-mediatechnology-2015/
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“92% of American teens go
online daily, including 24%
who go online 'almost
constantly.'”
-Pew Research Center, 2015: http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/09/teens-social-mediatechnology-2015/
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Why Use
Phones for
Instruction?
Benefits
▸ Accessibility
▸ Ease of use
▸ Compatibility
▸ Parents want to
support their
student!
Risks
▸ Possible
Distraction
▸ Theft/Misplaced
Devices
▸ Not everyone will
have a device to
bring
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FEAR OF THE
PHONE!
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School &
District
Policies
Digital Citizenship
▸
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Important that everyone own
the responsibility for good
citizenship
Ideas
▹ spend a few weeks at
the beginning of the
year focusing on Digital
Citizenship and then
reinforce throughout
the year
▹
Monthly discussions
and lessons bit.
ly/cybertip
▹
Digital Passport from
Common Sense Media
Bring Your Own Device
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▸
Are you ready for BYOD in your
school bit.ly/jcsbyod
Important to get parents to be
your partner
▹ Parent information session
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Reassurance that you will
keep their device secure
when not in use
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Registration assures that
each device brought has
parent consent to be on
campus.
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What is
Personalized
Learning?
Credit: Pittsfield School District
http://www.pittsfieldnhschools.org/
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Where are
you now with
Personalized
Learning?
https://pollev.com/amystanley469
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Ways to Use
Phones to
Personalize
Learning
● Collaboration and Choice
○ Students and teachers can work
together seamlessly on assignments of
choice.
● Research
○ Increase student inquiry skills and
content knowledge.
● Formative Assessment
○ Quickly pinpoint student strengths and
weaknesses.
● Student Engagement
○ Students are comfortable on their own
device and ready to dive into learning.
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WAYS NOT
TO USE
PHONES
Don’t forget about Digital Citizenship. This is a crucial part
of a successful BYOD classroom. Students must
understand they are responsible for their actions on their
device and how to stay safe online.
Don’t ask them to use an app that is platform specific if
there isn’t an app in both google play and itunes you should
keep looking.
Don’t expect them to use their data plan for work assigned
in class, you might even encourage them to turn off their
data while in class (in our district being on the school
network, insures you are filtered)
Don’t allow students to use their phones freely for a
reward or flexible time. The phone should be viewed as a
tool for learning in your classroom.
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Use Your
Phone for
Assessments
Quizizz: an
assessment tool that
provides immediate
feedback.
Assessment
questions are shown
on their screen and
they can work
independently.
Nearpod: a tool for
sharing an interactive
presentation to each
student’s device. The
teacher controls
when the content is
released. You can
have 10 nearpods
with a free account.
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Use Your
Phone for
Student
Input
AWWAP allows you
to share a
whiteboard with
your students everyone can write
to the shared space.
Easy to save work
as an image to
submit or add to a
digital portfolio.
Built in Recorders
for phones allow
students to record
their responses and
email or send them
to you via google
classroom
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Use Your Phone
for Collaboration
Thinkbinder:
Create interactive
private group study
spaces for students
to chat, share links,
and maintain a
group calendar.
Google suite of apps
especially Google
Classroom can allow
phones to become a
collaborative
workspace for any
project. Students can
prepare and submit
work easily on their
devices.
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What next?
Resources to
PLAY ON!
How to Use Cell Phones as
Learning Tools (article)
JCS BYOD Website
Kathy Schrock’s Guide to BYOD
Shake Up Learning Blog
Free Technology for Teachers
Guides
Digital Citizenship Resource
Roundup
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THANKS!
Any questions?
You can find us on
▸ Twitter @jcdlt
▸ Email:
amystanley@johnston.k12.nc.us and
pamelabatchelor@johnston.k12.nc.us
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Special thanks to all the people who
made and released these awesome
resources for free:
CREDITS
▸ Presentation template by
SlidesCarnival
▸ Photographs by Unsplash