BYOD @ APS
BYOD @ APS.mp4The purpose and why of BYOD
Our teaching and learning experiences are occurring more and more in a digital environment. The addition of BYOD will support and enhance educational outcomes for learners in the classroom with current teaching and learning approaches, especially for our older learners, increasing the access to devices for this to occur.
Some of the benefits of BYOD are:
An increase in motivation and focus on their learning experiences
Collaboration through a digital means (peers, teacher/s, family)
Ability to access and communicate with external experts
To add to and share digital records of learning
Researching, evaluating, and curating information
To be able to create, produce and publish media content and their learning
To develop their skills and understanding of being a digital citizen, participating in globally active learning communities
Students are prepared for a world which is increasingly utilising technology to work and communicate
Explore new concepts via Virtual and Augmented Reality
Students can access their work at any time and any place with the internet access.
As part of our trial during the final stages of 2022, we identified devices that would and would not support the extension required to support our monitoring and workflow software, Hāpara Teacher Dashboard. The software requires a simple extension to be installed. This is done automatically as the student's Google Chrome APS profile is added to the device.
iPads and Android tablets currently run a slightly different version of Google Chrome that does not support the approved and necessary extension. This makes them unsuitable for our BYOD programme.
Hapara Teacher Dashboard is a monitoring and workflow tool that was created in New Zealand in the early part of the 2010s. The software allows teachers to:
See and access all files in a student's Google Drive and email
Copy work digitally and push into a specific folder for the student to access
See live views of current open tabs, close them and redirect learners back to a specific site or tab
Interact via direct message with groups or individuals
Control, lock and guide student browsing to and within specific sites or domains.