This document provides guidance for teachers on making BYOD (bring your own device) work successfully in the classroom. It discusses key challenges like device dependence and offers solutions like promoting device agnostic apps and activities. The document encourages taking notes, interacting with the presenter and peers, and sharing ideas. Videos are shared on topics like BYOD classroom management and professional technology uses. Teachers are advised to think about policies, expectations, and consequences in their syllabus to set guidelines and prevent issues. Starting homework that encourages device use at home is suggested as a "secret weapon" to get students comfortable with BYOD.

2. MAKING BYOD WORK
Pitfalls and Solutions
Go ahead and open your favorite note
taking app. Or get out some paper and
pens.
Don’t have a favorite app? Search and
find one. 

3. GO TO TODAYSMEET
HTTPS://TODAYSMEET.COM/MAKINGBYODWORK
• Use this as a space to ask questions or respond to my questions.

4. WHO AM I AND WHY AM I HERE?
• I am a media specialist with classroom experience
• I get to hear from, deal with, and assist many teachers in many subjects and grades.
• I get to manage, update, store, catalog all those “supplemental” devices.
• I have heard your frustrations
• I am not an expert or guru. Only you know the specific culture and needs of your
class.
• I am only here to encourage you and help you make this BYOD thing work.

5. WHAT TO DO
Take notes
Interact with me
Interact with peers

6. TURN AND TALK
• Tell a neighbor something about the app you’re using.
• Did you learn anything? If so, share it on Todaysmeet.

7. PEELE VIDEO
• Is this realistic?
• Is this substantial?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7zHdGfN530

8. DEVICE AGNOSTICISM
• Device agnosticism is the capacity of a computing component to work with various
systems without requiring any special adaptations. The term can apply to either
hardware or software. In an IT context, agnosticism refers to anything that is
designed to be compatible across most common systems.
• http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/definition/device-agnostic-device-agnosticism
• Using apps or activities that are device-dependent will make your day more
frustrating.
• Todaysmeet is a good example of device agnosticism. All that is needed is an
internet connection. Use it today.

9. VIDEO
• BYOD in the 21st Century
• Know what you and/or students are trying to do
• 4 types of tasks:
• Administration tasks
• Classroom management tasks
• Content delivery
• Student learning outcomes (student products)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSXyfX8ABhA

10. SIMPLE BUT HARD
(KNOWING HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT
VS
ACTUALLY LOSING)
• Apply “teaching craft” tasks to BYOD tasks
• Seating charts
• Bulletin boards
• Work submission procedures
• Expectations and consequences
• Lesson planning
• Classroom management

11. AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION…
• Think of your syllabus…get your policies in place. Be sure your policies are “enforceable.”
• Visual Cues (traffic light, magnets, stickers, etc.)
• Share your vision with parents and teachers.
• Experimental and orientation activities. Like a needs assessment of your class. Watch what the
students do, and how parts of the lesson work or fail.
• Involve the students in tool sharing. They are good at offering new ways to use devices. Create a
submission policy so you have the ultimate decision and veto power.
• Relate device usage to the real world professional uses. What do professionals really do with
these devices?
• Be prepared to stop and punt…and be ok with that. Students will appreciate the effort.
• Do NOT use devices as a reward. This sends the wrong message about what devices are for.
(don’t assign writing for punishment)

12. A POUND OF CURE…
• Consistently enforce your policies.
• BYOD classroom management video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyIUguTukkU
• Another BYOD classroom management video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyIUguTukkU
• Find grants
• Do not accept the limitations as inevitable – we are problem solvers. Offer rewards
for solutions
• Provide the low cost, old school alternative methods and solutions, but do not
villainize them. Those methods should be comparably efficient and effective…the
studnets ultimately must choose to bring and use the devices

13. SECRET WEAPON
• Start them at home
• Give homework that is easier on a device or that is more efficient on a device.
• This assignment does not even have to be all that content-appropriate, but it should
mirror the tasks you plan to have them do in class.

14. SHARING TIME
• Share with me or peers via Todaysmeet or on the BYODRemix weebly site some
offenses and plausible consequences.
• Draft Technology Mission Statements
• Ideas for visual cues
• Generate a list of real world professional technology uses you can share with
students. What is the work force doing these days?
Share your “stuff” with me in an innovative way. Use an app you’ve seen this week. Create your own web
page or infographic. Write me a letter. Create a cartoon.
Use the “Contact” tab at http://byodremix.weebly.com/