Alaska Communications, the company that provides most of our bandwidth, is interested in showcasing KPBSD in one of its television ads. As a way to get them thinking in terms of what they want to include, we spent time with them on the phone yesterday discussing our use of technology. One of their questions was about where we are with students bringing their own device to school. We shared that we now have acceptable use policies in place for doing this and that we are leaving the decision to do so up to the schools.
The progression of students using their own devices in school is steady and in retrospect, will in a few years, be the norm. More and more of our secondary students have Smart Phones and more of our teachers are allowing students to use their phones as part of their lessons. I read the other day that if there is stuff on Google then why do you need to stuff it into your head? And while this statement is not quite fair to the schooling process, it does speak to how instruction and student learning is shifting or needs to shift. Our next step as a district is to support our teachers with good professional development to ensure that we take advantage of the devices that are sitting in our students’ pockets.
Bring your own device
Alaska Communications, the company that provides most of our bandwidth, is interested in showcasing KPBSD in one of its television ads. As a way to get them thinking in terms of what they want to include, we spent time with them on the phone yesterday discussing our use of technology. One of their questions was about where we are with students bringing their own device to school. We shared that we now have acceptable use policies in place for doing this and that we are leaving the decision to do so up to the schools.
The progression of students using their own devices in school is steady and in retrospect, will in a few years, be the norm. More and more of our secondary students have Smart Phones and more of our teachers are allowing students to use their phones as part of their lessons. I read the other day that if there is stuff on Google then why do you need to stuff it into your head? And while this statement is not quite fair to the schooling process, it does speak to how instruction and student learning is shifting or needs to shift. Our next step as a district is to support our teachers with good professional development to ensure that we take advantage of the devices that are sitting in our students’ pockets.