Bring your
own device (BYOD) refers to a classroom technology model where students are
asked to bring their personally owned laptop, tablet, or phone to school for
the purpose of learning.
Web-based tools have changed the learning landscape forever. By
leveraging these resources, educators can enrich their students learning with
advanced interactive content and prepare them for a tech-savvy world that steadily
evolves every single day.
Using these modern devices in classrooms to facilitate learning (where
applicable) seems like an obvious step forwards in teaching and learning. While
we undergo this transition, however, it is crucial that those who are most
impacted by this (students) are comfortable with the arrangement. Students who
are familiar with the set of tools they are using to learn face a better chance
of engaging themselves in their environment. When educational resource
providers begin to finely tailor learning to their audience and embrace the advances in teaching over the past 15
years, we can begin to see how we are helping to produce cultured and
technologically sound citizens, who are essential to our progress as a society.
I am not the first to suggest that students may identify most
strongly with a number of different learning styles, that which best enables
them to excel in their studies. The use of devices in the classroom is an
opportunity to personalize learning in a way that ensures each student is fully
engaged and is successful in achieving learning goals. Software and tools that
are being applied in the learning environment are tools that provide users with
24/7 access to ideas, resources, and communities. Consider a classroom where
students have personal devices and are perhaps using an e-textbook. There are the
immediate advantages of cost-savings and a possibly lighter backpack, but beyond
that, the navigational capabilities within the device allow for new innovations
such as integrating online videos and quizzes with class discussion forums or to
link sections of the e-textbook with feedback provided in online assessments. When
learning resources are presented and made available through personal devices,
students can feel they are putting forth less of a mental effort to do school
work, and instead be leisurely accessing course content and utilizing tools or
applications which augment their learning. Blending their personal and academic
lives, students have a greater chance of actively taking an interest and
excelling in their education.
Genele Rose
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