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Readying Your School for BYOT Mal Lee [email protected] © EDUWEBINAR PTY LTD | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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The normalised use of BYOT by all students is a major educational development that requires thoughtful whole school planning. Mal draws on his work on the pathfinding schools with Martin Levins to discuss what is required to ready your school.

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Readying Your School

for BYOT

Mal Lee

[email protected]

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Housekeeping• Disclaimer

– The views and opinions are those of the presenters and

are provided as general information which will require

further research to identify the application of the specific

requirements to the participant.

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Readiness• Readiness for full digital normalisation and associated

educational enhancement

• Critical factor

• Inability to transplant concept into lower order culture

• Relative novelty of concept

• Alien to prevailing perception of constancy & sameness

• Daily increasing school variability

• Each school’s unique ecology

• All schools at different stages on evolutionary continuum

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Paper&based* Early*digital* Digital*Early*

networked* Networked*Digital*

normalisation*

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Evolutionary stages• Stage indicators –

http://www.schoolevolutionarystages.net

• International measure

• Need to evolve through the stages?

• Time taken/required

• Effect of going digital

• Shift to on-going change and evolution

• Degree of natural growth and its shaping

• Lessons flowing from Digital Normalisation Stage

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Your school’s position?

• Questions?

• Comments?

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Ever-evolving ecologies

• Each unique, requiring its own in school development strategy

• Up to the each school and leadership to shape

• Shaping educational vision

• Positioning your school for normalised on-going development and evolution

• Primarily a human/cultural transformation

• Ever more integrated, complex and sophisticated ecology

• BYOT and school community’s educational readiness to encourage student choice, trust and responsibility

• Technology the easy part

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Identifying desired benefits• Intended and unintended

• Educational • 100% student usage and digital normalisation

• Resource wise• Added technology resourcing

• Networked resourcing

• Social capital

• Recurrent savings

• ‘Accounting’ for the added resources

• Organisational productivity

• Communications

• Political

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Theory and pragmatics

• Theory = Networked Stage

• Reality – could Early Networked

• School and context specific solution

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Cognitive readiness

• Age 10 and onwards

• Decision is yours

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SES and resources• No apparent correlation SES and digital

normalisation in UK, US, NZ and Australian case studies

• If anything…

• Ample resources provided by government/within school’s community

• Dependent on principal’s priorities

• ‘Financial’ empowerment of school community

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Equity

• Talking equity not equality

• Educational imperative

• Trend line downwards

• Facility to and wisdom of each school

supporting those in need

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Equity evolutionary thread• RP/B - Equity of digital access invariably poorly understood, not

researched and used as excuse for inaction

• ED –

• D – Students in need of digital support researched, identified and school explores in house solutions to address equity concerns

• EN- Concern for equity with school ensuring all children have requisite personal technology and ready home ‘Net access

• N – School and its community operationalize the 24/7/365 provision of digital technology to the diminishing number of students in need

• DN –School community normalises the provision of current personal digital technology to all students in need

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Teacher normalisation

• In everyday teaching

• 100% appropriate usage

• Apt pedagogy

• Student acumen

• An on-going challenge

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Teacher, student, parent empowerment

• Understand and respect sustained

contribution, expertise and desire for a voice

• Understanding of the macro that allows all to

contribute

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Home-school collaboration• The token

• Genuine

• Staff preparedness to distribute control of teaching process

• To think and provide networked, 24/7/365 education

• Central to BYOT and sustained digital normalisation

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Principal

• Critical

• Chief conductor

• Of ever more complex ecology

• Digital acumen

• All - empowering

• Or – All stultifying

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Infrastructure

• Campus wide network

• Classroom infrastructure

• Digital communications suite

• Readying for ever increasing traffic

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Trust, respect and choice• Staff – teaching and professional support

• Parents/grandparents

• Children

• Wider community

• Distributing/ceding control of the teaching and learning process

• Respect, understand and instil teacher awareness of legal and ethical implications of personal ownership

• Increasing need to collaborate with and trust children

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Trust, respect and choice

• Are your key staff ready to allow the children

to chose their own kit?

• Are they ready to trust the children to use in

class the apps/facilities the children prefer?

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Attraction, incentives, purpose

• Bottom line – you’re wanting to normalise all

students using their own kit naturally in all

classes and school operations

• Greatest incentive – normal part of all

teaching

• The challenge of ‘digital technology absent’

classrooms

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Student responsibilities• Choice

• Acquisition

• Choice of software/applications

• Operational understanding of own kit – hardware and software

• Care

• Maintenance

• Updates

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Into the practicalities• Draw on Chapters 6, 7 and 8 of Bring Your Own Technology

• Shape solution appropriate for your context – as of today

• Part of overall school enhancement

• Never as a stand alone initiative run by ‘ICT committee’

• Magnitude of challenge and task ahead

• Apportioning operational responsibility

• Page 80 checklist

• Planning with constant, often uncertain and rapid change and evolution

• Indicative timeline

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Conclusion

• Greatest challenge – your staff and culture

• The technology is vital but….

• Nexus with shaping educational vision

• Ideally all your teachers should be ready

• But be willing to dive into the deep end

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In Closing

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