What is best technology for the classroom?
Classroom Technology: Challenges
There are many reasons why we should allow students to bring in their own devices but these come with their own set of technical and user challenges, such as:
- Whole Class Teaching
- Providing a consistent set of tools tailored to each different device
- Keeping students focussed on the task in hand
- Recharging of student owned devices
- Data protection and safeguarding your data
- Managing the right apps for the right device
- Protecting school email systems when accessing on a personal device
- Providing suitable wireless access throughout the site with suitable capacity to support learning yet without opening access to sensitive systems
- Insurance of non-school devices if damaged during the school day
- How to engage with students that don't own a personal device or have limited/no access to ICT at home
- How to manage AppStore/Google Play licensing