BYOT:
New Opportunities for
Schools
The AIS Conference
10 September, 2012
BYO in General
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Bring Your Own Device/Technology/Computer/Laptop
Students bring their own device of a minimum
specification
The School offers access to the internet
More reliance on evolving web services (i.e. email,
storage, content), less on Standard Operating
Environments (SOE’s)
Appropriate behavior-focused policies to support
responsible and effective use would be put in place.
What’s Driving BYO?
• Consumerisation of IT
• faster, broader bandwidth availability
• availability of software, platforms and
infrastructure-as-a-service
• people actually like to use their own
gear
Towards a ‘Cloud-based’
approach
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Old Way:
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Standard Operating
Environments
(SOE)
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Only School-owned
technology
Data ‘in-house’ on
file servers
School-owned
Software licensing
+90 second logins
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New Direction:
Tools-based software
approach
Student-owned
technology on School
Infrastructure
Data in “the cloud’
SaaS, PaaS, IaaS through a browser
“Instant-on”
• Ubiquitous access to modern
technology now makes it possible for
student learning outcomes that are
broader, deeper, more relevant, more
complex, and more creative than we
could ever imagine.
BYO...?
• What “type” of BYO program?
• BYOD
• a stepped approach, based on
Schools’ readiness for change
• Can include ‘Virtual Desktops’
(VDI), ‘mandated technologies’ and
“walled gardens”
• “pure” BYOT
• The Future
BYOT “Readiness”
Factors
• Normalised use of the digital
• Genuine home-school collaboration
• Principal’s leadership
• Appropriate infrastructure
• Champions
• Education authority (if applicable)
BYOT is an educational development and a
supplementary school technology resourcing
model.
A home/school collaboration in arranging for
students’ 24/7/365 use of their own digital
technologies to be extended into the
classroom...assisting in students’ teaching,
learning, the organisation of their schooling and,
where relevant, the complementary education
outside the classroom.
BYOT Fundamentals
SOURCE: Lee, 2012
Trust is Key to BYOT
• BYOT is based on an assumption of
trust in – not mistrust of – the students
and the professionalism of teachers
• Students’ ownership of the technology
and data are respected.
• Technology is chosen by the student or
family.
• Schools can advise, but not mandate.
• There is an enhanced facility for the
personalisation of teaching and learning
in and outside the school walls.
• The recognition that the in-school use
of the students’ digital technology is an
extension from students’ existing use of
that technology to assist their selfteaching and learning
• Authentic home-school collaboration is
integral to the school’s achievement of
the normalised usage of the students’
technology
BYOT at St Luke’s
Supporting Systems
• Schools’ online environments
• Learning Management Systems
(LMS)
• Web mail, Cloud storage
• Portals, subscriptions, School website
What the School
Provides:
• 1 Gbps Internet (lightly filtered)
• fast internal network
• online environments
• basic support
AARNet
Supporting Infrastructure
• Only the uninformed think BYOT is actually
cheaper for the School!
• Costs to plan for:
• Big pipe w/ unlimited data
• fast internal network
• excellent, high-density WiFi
The Problem:
• How to achieve 100% uptake?
• How to include and develop teachers
to:
• Buy in to the model
• improve skills in ‘a new way of
working’?
BYOT: 5 Year Plan
• Continue Y10-12 BYOT
• BYOiPad Year 7’s 2013, 2014
• MY 2013 & 2014: Evaluate progress
• Establish ‘true’ BYOT for 2015 7-12
going forward
BYOT Continuum
“Working well
digitally”
Year 7
BYOiPad Program
2013-2014
2010 2011 2012 2013
2014
2015
PRIMARY
OBJECTIVE:
• Significantly reduce weight of textbook
load
• Current (total) weight of Y7 texts >10KG
2013 Year 7
BYOiPad at St Luke’s
• Based on Danebank’s successful 7-10
compulsory iPad program:
http://ipad.danebank.nsw.edu.au/
• A two-year program over 2013 & 2014
• Vision: “Fully” BYOT 7-12 in 2015
SECONDARY
• UsedOBJECTIVES
as a toolset by teachers to assist
in differentiating the curriculum
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Majority of students and teachers will
increase fluency of ‘working well
digitally’:
• use Internet for research and school tasks appropriately;
• Take notes in and out of class;
• Capture, edit & share images, sound and video;
• Draw/sketch/create artworks;
• Find, collect and analyse data;
• Stay organised!
What will it look like?
• Families will provide their Year 7
students with an iPad for use at School
• Students will load their prescribed
textbooks onto iPads
• School-provided FAST WiFi Internet
access
BYOiPad v. BYOT
Same device
Same OS
Prescribed Apps
Student chooses device
Family-owned
Student chooses OS
Family-supported
Student chooses software
Prescribed
texts loaded
Quasi-SOE approach
Tools-based approach
Why iPad?
Why the iPad?
• excellent as an eReader
• largest market share
• most developed “ecosystem,” stable OS
• largest uptake in Schools
• robust, well-engineered device
• weighs ~600 grams
• exceptional battery life
• “instant on”
Costings: student
texts
Publisher
Oxford
Pearson
Pearson
Pearson
Jacaranda
Pearson
RWP
RWP
MacMillan
Jacaranda
Title
myWorldAtlas
Global Explorations
Touche Stage 1
Science Focus
Artwise
Heinemann Poetry 1
Trash
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
A Midsummer's’ Night Dream
Retroactive Stage 4
KLA
Format
Paper
edn $
Geography App or web $62.95
Geography ePub
$69.95
Languages pdf
$36.00
Science
ePub
$71.20
Visual Arts pdf
$67.95
English
pdf
$32.70
English
epub
$17.95
English
ePub
$23.95
English
epub
$17.95
History
pdf & web $69.95
Total:
$470.55
1 Yr
license $
$19.90
$34.98
$18.00
$35.60
$33.98
$16.35
$8.25
$9.63
$0.00
$48.50
$225.18
Costings: Apps
• TBC. Looking at ~$60 budget for
Prescribed Apps
2012 Timeline:
• July 31: 2013 Y7 parent info night
• August : Complete eText & Apps lists,
identify 2013 Y7 teachers
• September: provide 2013 Y7 teachers
with iPads, texts & Apps
• Oct/Nov: Program planning & testing,
PD
• December: 2013 Y7 BYOiPad
Staff
Day 1
• January: Y 7 BYOiPad Staff day 2
Expectations of
Students
• Open and manage their own iTunes
account
• Come to school with a charged battery
• Have all prescribed texts and apps
loaded
Expectations of
Parents
• Support the program
• supervise appropriate use at home
• decide how to help manage student’s
App purchases
Expectations of
Teachers
• Support the program
• Invest time in building fluency in iOS to
support teaching & learning
• Learn along with students about new
new ways of working well digitally
End Presentation
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