Bring Your Own Technology: The BYOT guide for schools and families

In time all schools in the developed world will move to students using their personal mobile technology in class, rather than it being provided by the school.

It is not a case of if, but when.

BYOT is likes a tsunami coming across the horizon.

The forces impelling the change and the potential educational, social, economic, technological and political opportunities opened by the development will soon fundamentally change the nature of schooling, teaching, the technology used, home- school relations and the resourcing of schools.

The potential implications of the development are immense.

BYOT is far more than a technological change. However, its full potential will only be realised by schools, their leadership and their communities collaborating astutely to achieve the normalised 100% student use of the technology.

That challenge will be considerable.

This book, drawing on the work of the pathfinding schools and education authorities in the UK, the USA and Australia, is designed to provide teachers and parents alike an insight into:

why the development needs to be embraced

the imperative of authentic collaboration between home and school

what each school needs to do to ready itself

how to deal with the raft of options

the kinds of whole school community implementation strategy required

the practicalities of achieving sustained total student usage and the many dividends that will then flow.

To help further that understanding, join the authors at the BYOT blog at <byot.me>.