taedtech keynote presentation - 24 jan 2015.key

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Agenda • Introduction to TESOL Arabia's

Open Badges • Introduction to today's theme

BYOD • What is BYOD? • Why the interest and excitement? • What are critics saying? • The basic questions each of us should be

asking today.

http://www.slideshare.net/taedtech/digital-badges-tesol-arabia-short-introduction-to-badges-oct-2014

invitation to • get involved • demonstrate your involvement in PD • share what it is you are learning,

questioning, discovering .. with your peers • contribute to a community of practice .. • demonstrate that you are an EFL

reflective practitioner • raise the status of EFL teaching for

everyone

• Introduction to TESOL Arabia's Open Badges

what is BYOD? • term popularised in business • allow employees access to privileged

(company) information usually from their employer on their phones via apps

• Introduction to today’s theme • BYOD - “bring your own device”

what is BYOD? • now being applied in education • allow students to come to class and use

their mobile devices for realising learning / instruction


• affordable • versatile (portable) • powerful

what is BYOD? • "device neutral" assignments /

activities in the classroom • connecting

• learning environment • Moodle • Edmodo


what is BYOD? • content

• digital storage (Dropbox) • podcasts • videos

• interact with content • Google apps


what is BYOD? • collaborate with peers

• Google doc • etherpad • Tumblr

• survey, quiz, polls• Socrative • Kahoot


what is BYOD? • why the interest / excitement?

(assumptions) • etherpad • Tumblr

• survey, quiz, polls• Secretive


what is BYOD? • why the interest / excitement?

(assumptions) • capitalises on ubiquitous nature of

mobile tech that most students now have easy access to

• supposes that students will be more thoroughly engage with course content


what is BYOD? • but what should we be aware of?

(attention?) • “It's not about the device .. it's about

what can be done because of the device"

• "It helps created a community that is always connected"


what is BYOD? • but what should we be aware of?

(attention?) • "It's inevitable.. embrace it. The sooner

we embrace it.. the sooner we prepare students for a technologically-driven economy and society"


what is BYOD? • but what are critics saying?


security • are you collecting data on your "employer /

student" on location, frequency, variety of access to information?

productivity? pedagogy? where?• how is this affecting the bottom line? how

do we know it works? evidence?

what is BYOD? • but what are critics saying?


downloading operational expenses to the employee / student - fair? • are you expecting your "employer / student"

to have such a device? • are you (inadvertently) shifting the costs

associated with learning how to use / maintain the devices to the employee / student?

what is BYOD? • more on the topic awaits you?


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taedtech keynote presentation - 24 jan 2015.key

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