[chbot] Need your help: BYOD in Primary School

[Charles Manning]

Sense sometimes prevails!

The damn things are a distraction.


On Wednesday 20 February 2013 09:20:38 Hanno Sander wrote:
> Thanks Richard, Jasper and Daniel on your valuable thoughts!
> I just received the first set of good news.  Yesterday I dragged the
> principal to my son's class to show how the kids were all either playing on
> iPads or waiting to play on them.  Today they're banned for before school
> use.
> Hanno
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Richard Jones <rjtp at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> > To permit BYOD as a means to deliver the curriculum effectively pushes
> > back hard on the wireless infrastructure. Intelligent Wifi bandwidth
> > distribrution systems such as these: http://www.ruckuswireless.com/ come
> > at a significant cost for a decent sized campus. Then assuming that
> > internet access is required you need a reasonably fat internet pipe to
> > make the intelligent infrastructure worthwhile.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Daniel Myall 
<daniel.myall at chmeds.ac.nz>wrote:
> >>  Dear Hanno,
> >>
> >> I agree; I'm concerned by the drive by many primary schools that using
> >> the latest technology is a critical part of education and see it
> >> generally as likely a waste of money and time. I love technology but
> >> generally keep it off limits to my children.
> >>
> >> The "bring your own device" idea hasn't been around for long enough for
> >> reliable evidence to be collected to fully evaluate the effect on
> >> achievement. However, based upon my neuroscience-based view of learning,
> >> and meta analyses (see Hattie, 2009, Visible Learning) regarding under
> >> what conditions technology can assist learning, I see the effect size as
> >> being rather small or even negative in these cases. It is far more
> >> important to focus on other aspects of education that are known to have
> >> large positive effects on achievement (quality teachers, reciprocal
> >> teaching, feedback, improving student-teacher relationships, ...).
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> Daniel
> >>
> >> ---
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> >>
> >> On 19/02/13 9:14 PM, Hanno Sander wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi!
> >> The primary school my kids attend is excited to get more shiny iPads
> >> into their classrooms with a "bring your own device" program.  Although
> >> I love technology, I know that gadgets are just tools that serve a
> >> purpose.  I don't want my kids to be restricted in their creativity by
> >> limited apps, I don't want to waste their time playing games while they
> >> should be learning in school, and I don't want them to have unsupervised
> >> access to the internet.  We do have a tablet at home so I'm aware that
> >> they can be used for good- but I don't see how one teacher can manage 30
> >> eight year olds with iPads during the school day.
> >>
> >>  The school is holding a meeting this Thursday were they're looking for
> >> input from parents.  I'm planning to present a long list of reasons as
> >> well as solid case studies showing why iPads/too much technology is
> >> detrimental to learning in primary schools.  Any help with good
> >> arguments and/or links to case studies/references is appreciated.
> >>
> >>  Thanks!
> >> Hanno
> >>
> >>
> >>
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