This advanced session will provide time to collaborate and share ideas around how your students use their own mobile internet devices in your classroom. Come prepared to share your experiences and gain ideas from other teachers in Ontario. What devices do your students use? What tools have you noticed your students using?  What learning activities do you set up in your classroom to support student ownership of their learning? What approaches do you use to support differentiated instruction and assessment? What difficulties have you faced?

Audience: All levels

Resources:

Explore Jaclyn’s extensive wiki for this session.  Topics covered in this wiki include:

• Types of Devices (includes an excellent device by device pros/cons chart)
• Digital Tools
• Learning Activities
• Differentiating Instruction with BYOD
• Struggles with BYOD

Apps that work well with BYOD: Voicethread, Evernote, Google Drive, Showbie, Edmodo, Google Doc with lots more sharing tools
More resource links: OneNote, Collaborative whiteboard apps, Voki (“talking heads”), Audioboo, Home (video), Soundnote, Today’s Meet, Flubaroo, Voicethread wiki, Blended Learning Mechanics (PDF)

Related sessions:

• Voicethread
• BYOD: High-Yield Instructional Strategies
• Supporting Student Learning with iPads
• Math Inquiry Using iPads and iDevices
• Google Cool Tools for Collaboration in Education
• Using iPads to Demonstrate Student Understanding
• Liven up Literacy: Fun Tools to Engage Your Students
• Reaching Reluctant Readers and Writers through Technology – Part 1
• Reaching the Reluctant Learner Through Technology – Part 2