This is a presentation I created to discuss Tablet and BYOD usage in the Primary classroom as part of my assignment for Year 3 of my BA degree

1. Tablets, iPads and Mobile
Devices

2. Intuitive
Technical iPads and Tablets interface
Creative Easy to use
Accessible to Learning
FS and KS1 Styles
Personalised One finger
touch
Integrated SEN Portable
hardware

3. Pre-school evidence

4. Not only for children’s use
• http://www.2simpleapps.com/
Capture a Choose Record the
learning Email individual
picture with your
experiences learner or
your apple or learner or
and select the whole class
android device. learners.
learning reports.
objectives.

5. ICT budget excluding software and staff costs
£ 576.8M
42 % of gvnt spend
£18 M
£ 558.2 M
50 % of gvnt spend
2006 - 2007 2009 - 2010
‘Level of expenditure considerable’
CfBT Education Trust (2010)

6. BYOD
49% of 1500 children aged 8-11 years had their
own mobile phones (2006)
(Ofcom Media Literacy Audit, 2006 cited
in CfBT ,2010)
Three-quarters (73%) of 10 year olds have their
own mobile phones (global average is 45%)
(Daily Mail, 2012)

7. + Positives +
• Contextual learning – children learn on their own
devices – makes the learning more relevant (Wray, 2010)
• Children know how to work their devices
• More confident and less digitally restrained when
using device
• Integrated devices – camera, video, audio, internet
• Can be used as a starting point to then upload work
onto a network or to share on IWB
• The student’s device is already up to date with
software

8. Other considerations
Safeguarding
‘These types of devices, if usage is not managed
appropriately, pose serious challenges for
Strict guidelines
schools who are trying to safeguard pupil use of
the internet within school. However, as with
Pupil network controls
most new technologies, used in a positive way
they can provide new and exciting ways to
Device integration
promote learning and teaching within lessons’ On task?
Hardware (Yorkshire & Humber Grid for Learning, 2012)
Social exclusion
Distractions

9. Practical Exercise
• An example of a BYOD lesson
• Go out and use your mobile phone to take a picture
you like
• Themed focus - Winter
• 5 minutes
• 109345307118012953268.sussex@picasaweb.com
• Enter the albums name in the subject line
• If you want to add a caption enter this in the body of
the email

10. Possibilities within the classroom
• Links to English – word usage of Winter, Poems, story to
image
• Links to Art – manipulate images – using images to describe
a concept/feeling
• Links to Science – Seasons, leaves
• Links to Music – create a soundtrack, Garageband
• Possibilities of extending or simplifying the activity to fit
age
• Link to Geography – location tagging – Pictures are taken
and the children have to locate the image? – make this as
hard or as simple as you want
• Link to outside learning – important and valuable in
extending learning and (DfES cited in Catling, 2010) and ‘makes
subjects more vivid and intersting…enhances
…understanding’ (Osted cited in Catling, 2010)

12. A final consideration
• ‘There needs to be an understanding
that we are not simply procuring
technology for technology
sake…[but] utilising emerging
technology [to] assist in raising
standards in schools and improve
pupil outcomes.’
(Gnoll Primary School, 2012)