Educational Technology: BYOD

December 5, 2014
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is not only about students bringing their own devices to class and using them for educational purposes. It is much more than just a problem of hardware but is rather a question of what "learningware" students need to install and use with their devices. Most of the discussions on BYOD center around the accessibility and availability of devices together with the fact that students are experts of their own devices. Sounds good but not enough!

Students need to be provided powerful educational apps to galvanize the learning gen inside of them. They need to be shown what apps work with which. Below is a Symbalo board featuring a wide variety of powerful web tools and apps perfect for BYOD classrooms. Click on the image below to access the interactive version of this board where you can access the links of each of these apps.

Here is a round-up of these apps as provided by Edudemic.

Skitch
Evernote
Today’s Meet
Infuse Learning
Zondle
Socrative
Gaggle
Vimeo
Brain Pop
Live Binders
Edmodo
Whiteboard
Class Dojo
Quizlet
Khan Academy
Bit.ly
Twitter
Popplet
Sliderocket
Wikispaces
Poll Everywhere
VoiceThready
Studyblue
QR Stuff
Code Academy
Scratch (MIT)
Tynker
EasyBib
Discovery
Padlet
Atomic Learning
The App Builder

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July 7, 2014
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is not only about students bringing their own devices to class and using them for educational purposes. It is much more than just a problem of hardware but is rather a question of what "learningware" students need to install and use with their devices. Most of the discussions on BYOD center around the accessibility and availability of devices together with the fact that students are experts of their own devices.

If your school is planning to employ BYOD and is looking for some theoretical background about this trend then this comprehensive literature review is a must read. This review represents a reasonable and representative scan of the available literature on BYOD. The visual below is based on this literature review and sketches a general framework of what BYOD is all about, its models . reasons to use it and many more.This infographic is created by Pip Cleaves and the original version can be viewed from this link.