Tablets, iPads and Mobile Devices

iPads and Tablets

Easy to use

Intuitive interface

Portable

One finger touch

Integrated hardware

Technical

Learning Styles

SEN

Personalised

Creative

Accessible to FS and KS1

Pre-school evidence

Not only for children’s use

• http://www.2simpleapps.com/

Capture a picture with your apple or android device.

Choose your learner or learners.

Record the learning experiences and select the learning objectives.

Email individual learner or whole class reports.

CfBT Education Trust (2010)

2009 - 2010

ICT budget excluding software and staff costs

2006 - 2007

£18 M

‘Level of expenditure considerable’

£ 558.2 M

50 % of gvnt spend

£ 576.8M42 % of gvnt spend

BYOD

49% of 1500 children aged 8-11 years had their own mobile phones (2006)

(Ofcom Media Literacy Audit, 2006 cited in CfBT ,2010)

(Daily Mail, 2012)

Three-quarters (73%) of 10 year olds have their own mobile phones (global average is 45%)

+ 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

Other considerations

‘These types of devices, if usage is not managed appropriately, pose serious challenges for schools who are trying to safeguard pupil use of the internet within school. However, as with most new technologies, used in a positive way they can provide new and exciting ways to promote learning and teaching within lessons’

(Yorkshire & Humber Grid for Learning, 2012)Hardware

Pupil network controls

Safeguarding

Distractions

Device integration

On task?

Social exclusion

Strict guidelines

Practical Exercise

• An example of a BYOD lesson

• Go out and use your mobile phone to take a pictureyou 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

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)

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)