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About This Book
Until now, the conversation around mobile devices in schools has been divided into two camps: those favoring 1:1 plans, in which each student is assigned a school-provided laptop or tablet, and supporters of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives that shift the responsibility for providing and maintaining classroom mobile technology to students and their parents. In reality, argues classroom technology expert Susan Brooks-Young, it’s a hybrid model of 1:1 and BYOD that best meets the needs of students, teachers, and schools.
A Better Approach to Mobile Devices offers school and district leaders concise, practical advice on how to set up a hybrid mobile technology program or shift an existing 1:1 or BYOD program to the more flexible, cost-effective, equitable, and learning-focused hybrid approach.
Drawing on current research and her own extensive experience, Brooks-Young makes the case for hybrid initiatives and then explores the five keys to successful implementation: connection to the curriculum, infrastructure and support, training and professional development, budget, and policies and procedures.
The book closes with a checklist of action steps associated with each of the keys, giving administrators and their planning teams a clear path forward.
Topics : Teaching Strategies
Table Of Content
The Case for Hybrid Mobile Technology Initiatives
Planning for Success
Connection to Curriculum
Infrastructure and Support
Training and Professional Development
Budget
Policies and Procedures
Encore
References
Related Resources
About the Author
About the Authors
Susan Brooks-Young:
Susan Brooks-Young has been involved in the field of instructional technology since 1979. One of the original technology users in the district where she taught, Susan has continued to explore ways in which technology can be used to facilitate student learning. She has worked as a computer mentor, technology trainer, and technology curriculum specialist.
Prior to establishing her own consulting firm, Susan was a teacher, site administrator, and technology specialist in a county office of education in a career that spanned more than 23 years in both public and private education. Since 1986, she has published articles and software reviews in a variety of education journals. She is also author of a number of books that focus on effective use of technology in schools.
Susan works with educators internationally, focusing on practical technology-based strategies for personal productivity and effective technology implementation in classrooms. Mobile technologies and BYOD programs are areas of particular interest for her. She can be reached at [email protected].
ISBN: 9876038147452
Author: Susan Brooks-Young.
Publisher: Educational Book House
Publish Year: 2016
Size: 17*24cm
Pages number: 60
