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Ashfield Public School

Ashfield Public School

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Bring Your Own Device

 

What is Bring Your Own Device

 

Ashfield Public School has a Bring Your Own device initiative. It involves students bringing personal technological devices from home for use at school. These devices include laptops, smart phones, tablets, iPads and iPods.

 

At school students use their device in a range of ways. Examples of how a device may be used at school include:

  • Conducting research by accessing the Internet via the school WiFi.
  • Creating a film or take photographs as part of a school project.
  • Calculating sums on a calculator.
  • Composing text including note taking.
  • Interacting with an educational app.
  • Using a calendar

 

Why Bring Your Own Device?

Education in the 21stCentury is about using technology to spring board critical thinking, research, problem solving, effective communication, curiosity and imagination to heights that can be described as limitless, borderless and instantaneous.

Bring Your Own Device facilitates 21stCentury Education by overcoming the limitations of education budgets that result in a lack of devices to enable the effective and appropriate use of technology at school.