From January 2014 students at St John's College, Hamilton will be able to Bring Their Own Device to support learning at the college. This presentation was delivered to parents of the new Year 9 cohort on 28 November 2013

1. If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow. – John Dewey
Preparing Young Men For Life

3. Our Vision
• To embrace e-learning, through personalised learning
opportunities that are flexible and authentic and meet
each student’s aspirations and educational needs.
• To provide increased access to ICT for students, staff
and parents for the purpose of improving learning
outcomes for the boys.
• Creating an environment that enhances and improves
student and teacher excellence, through integrating
new technologies into the wide range of opportunities
students are offered to enable them to participate in a
global world.

4. What does the Digital World Look Like at St John’s?
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Well resourced learning spaces
Wifi
Network Account
Google Apps for Education
Learning Management Systems
Student And Parent Portals
Digital Literacies and Citizenship

5. BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE
BYOD is simply a program where students
bring their own personal devices to school and
connect them to the school wireless network
that allows filtered internet access.

6. Research citing the potential
benefits of e-learning
Noeline Wright’s (University of Waikato)
literature review looking at ‘e-Learning and
implications for New Zealand schools’
highlights the following benefits of e-learning
afforded by access to internet capable
devices:
• Improved motivation and engagement
• Greater independence and personalised
learning
• Improved critical thinking and
development of multi-literacies
• Greater access to information, resources
and experts
• Greater opportunities for collaboration in
wide contexts, including international ones

7. Top Device Tasks
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Digital Textbooks
Email/Video/Audio/Images
Inquiry Learning
Note-taking
Productivity (Word Processing, Multimedia)
QR Codes
Reading via ebooks
Research
Student response systems (quizzes)
Subject specific apps
Watching subject related videos
Creating rich media content (Video/Podcasts)

12. Laptops,
Netbooks,
Tablets are
focus
Smartphones
and iTouch
devices have a
place but not
key drivers

13. What Devices Can Be used?
• What devices can my child bring?
– Laptop/Netbook
– Tablet (includes iPads, Windows tablets, Android
tablets, etc.)
– Smart Phone

14. The choices
• Parent choices:
– To allow you to bring or not to bring
• Student choices:
– To bring or not to bring
• Teacher choices:
– To allow use in class or not allow in class
– Teachers CANNOT require students to have or
bring devices to class this year

15. Who's responsible?
• Bring devices at your own risk
• This means that if you bring a device,
you are responsible for keeping it safe and
secure
• Do not leave your device in a classroom, even
if the teacher allows it
• You are responsible for the appropriate use of
your personal computing device

16. Bring Your Own Device
• What if my child’s device is stolen or
damaged?
–Students bring their personal electronic
devices to school at their own risk just
like any other personal items. The
school will NOT be held responsible if
any personal electronic (or other
personal item) is lost, stolen, damaged,
or misplaced.

17. Bring Your Own Device
• Will my child be at a disadvantage if they
don’t have a device?
– No! Other resources are made available.
• What network will users access?
– Students will have access to school filtered
internet access only by logging in to our
network. All “chat” and “IM-ing” capabilities
have been disabled.

18. What will BYOD Look like in 2014
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Optional
Student/Parent Choice over device
Policies in place for new academic year (website)
Students able to use in class when appropriate to the
learning activity
• Teachers varying from experimentation to wide ranging
integration
• Professional Development for staff and students
At St John’s College, we envisage a learning environment
where technology is a part of us, not apart from us.

19. Further Information
Visit the
School
Website
http://www.stjohns-hamilton.school.nz/Community/BYOD-E-Learning

20. dtester@stjohns-hamilton.school.nz