Best Practice

10 steps to Bring Your Own Device

Handheld devices
Steve Smith details his 10 tips for schools which are planning to allow students to bring in their own handheld devices.

The explosion in the consumer market for laptops, tablets and SmartPhones has radically altered our expectations of how and when we access the internet and read emails. This revolution has now arrived at the school gate. 

Today, students and staff expect to be able to access homework and print off lesson plans using their personally owned device at the time and location of their choice.

Bring your own device (BYOD) has been lauded by many as the answer to the dilemma facing schools across the country that want to provide students with access to engaging educational content and simultaneously address the need for every student to have access to technology – all within budget.

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