"BYOD" Plenary - presented by James Buckingham (MA Adult Ed, MA ODE, TEFL) at TAEDTECH / TA Abu Dhabi Chapter - 24 January 2015 event

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2. 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.

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

4. 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

5. 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”

6. what is BYOD?
• now being applied in education
• allow students to come to class and use
their mobile devices for realising learning
/ instruction
• Introduction to today’s theme
• BYOD - “bring your own device”
• affordable
• versatile (portable)
• powerful

7. what is BYOD?
• "device neutral" assignments /
activities in the classroom
• connecting
• learning environment
• Moodle
• Edmodo
• Introduction to today’s theme
• BYOD - “bring your own device”

8. what is BYOD?
• content
• digital storage (Dropbox)
• podcasts
• videos
• interact with content
• Google apps
• Introduction to today’s theme
• BYOD - “bring your own device”

9. what is BYOD?
• collaborate with peers
• Google doc
• etherpad
• Tumblr
• survey, quiz, polls
• Socrative
• Kahoot
• Introduction to today’s theme
• BYOD - “bring your own device”

10. what is BYOD?
• why the interest / excitement?
(assumptions)
• etherpad
• Tumblr
• survey, quiz, polls
• Secretive
• Introduction to today’s theme
• BYOD - “bring your own device”

11. 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
• Introduction to today’s theme
• BYOD - “bring your own device”

12. 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"
• Introduction to today’s theme
• BYOD - “bring your own device”

13. 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"
• Introduction to today’s theme
• BYOD - “bring your own device”

14. what is BYOD?
• but what are critics saying?
• Introduction to today’s theme
• BYOD - “bring your own device”
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?

15. what is BYOD?
• but what are critics saying?
• Introduction to today’s theme
• BYOD - “bring your own device”
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?

16. what is BYOD?
• more on the topic awaits you?
• Introduction to today’s theme
• BYOD - “bring your own device”
schedule

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• BYOD - “bring your own device”

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• BYOD - “bring your own device”

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• BYOD - “bring your own device”

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• BYOD - “bring your own device”

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• BYOD - “bring your own device”

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• BYOD - “bring your own device”