BYOD, Communities — and a 1-to-1 Webinar
by Pamela Livingston
When invited to visit 1-to-1 schools, I pose two overarching questions – How are students involved in 1-to-1 here? How is 1-to-1 growing your learning community?
These questions become important with a program with school-supplied or school-recommended digital devices – and even more so with BYOD programs. Because if you are expecting everyone to supply their own device for learning, you need to:
When invited to visit 1-to-1 schools, I pose two overarching questions – How are students involved in 1-to-1 here? How is 1-to-1 growing your learning community?
These questions become important with a program with school-supplied or school-recommended digital devices – and even more so with BYOD programs. Because if you are expecting everyone to supply their own device for learning, you need to:
- Make sure students are fully involved and onboard right away. Bring students into committees and have them part of surveys and the planning, ask their opinions as experts. They reside in the digital world and are your most impacted stakeholders in terms of their current and future academic, career, professional and personal lives. And keep asking them, many times – formally and informally. Follow up on their ideas and suggestions. If BYOD is bought in as a strategy by the students who understand your respect and understanding of them and who realize the entire program was built with their buy-in and feedback — you will have tee’ed up your program for success.
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