Cathleen Norms and Elliot Soloway say out loud what many are thinking.
"In your schools, In your classrooms, you will soon allow students to use computing devices they already own. While today 99 percent of schools ban cell phones and other mobile devices from the classroom, there will be a 180-degree turnaround within four years.
This coming shift is inevitable. Why? Because banning will no longer be practical. Each and every student will have at least one mobile computing device (e.g., smartphone, media player) with them at all times. Wireless devices will be embedded in watches, in necklaces, in eyeglasses, in notebooks. school entrances would need to become more intensely guarded than an airport to enforce any sort of a ban. Parents, increasingly, will put pressure on schools to allow their children to have mobile devices. And students increasingly will say, “let me use my own tools.” Banning is not going to work."
A very interesting and timely article when there is a movement in the corporate world to encourage their workers to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). LINK
"In your schools, In your classrooms, you will soon allow students to use computing devices they already own. While today 99 percent of schools ban cell phones and other mobile devices from the classroom, there will be a 180-degree turnaround within four years.
This coming shift is inevitable. Why? Because banning will no longer be practical. Each and every student will have at least one mobile computing device (e.g., smartphone, media player) with them at all times. Wireless devices will be embedded in watches, in necklaces, in eyeglasses, in notebooks. school entrances would need to become more intensely guarded than an airport to enforce any sort of a ban. Parents, increasingly, will put pressure on schools to allow their children to have mobile devices. And students increasingly will say, “let me use my own tools.” Banning is not going to work."
A very interesting and timely article when there is a movement in the corporate world to encourage their workers to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). LINK
