Bring Your Own (BYO): Crawl, Walk, Run Bring Your Own Technology initiatives are top of mind for school administrators everywhere this year. Regardless of size, location or demographics, schools across the nation need to improve learning and they acknowledge that technology can help. Today's budget realities require new approaches. The paradigm shift of allowing student/teacher owned devices leave administrators wondering how to best create safe and improved learning environments.
In this session you will learn insights on change management and how other schools have implemented their own BYO programs. Hear from industry experts on how they navigated change in their districts and got started with their own crawl, walk, run with BYO. Our panelists for this session include:
With many different devices showing up in the classrooms today, everyone expecting 24/7 access and schools needing to lower costs, a different approach is needed and quickly. Try LaunchPad. |
| Date: | February 15, 2012 |
| Time: | 12 pm EST |
| Duration: | 60 minutes |
| Cost: | Free |
 Leslie Wilson |
 Jay McPhail |
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About the Experts:
Leslie Wilson, Chief Executive Officer, is a founding member of the One-to-One Institute, a non-profit, serving schools, districts, states and countries in successful implementation of 1:1 programs. She co-directed Michigan's 1:1 project, Freedom to Learn- a statewide program that serviced more than 25,000 students, 1,200 teachers in 188 schools across 95 school districts. Prior to her work with Freedom to Learn, Ms. Wilson served in public education for 31 years in a number of teaching and administrative roles. As high school principal, Ms. Wilson led a division one comprehensive system recognized as a National Blue Ribbon and New American High School. As a school change agent, Ms. Wilson also used a unique skill set to immerse school leaders in adventure-based, 'outward bound' risk-taking experiences for the last 11 years of her public school administration.
Jay McPhail is the Director of Instructional Technology and Career Technical Education at Riverside Unified School District in California. He began teaching as a second career in 1998 at Perris High School in the Perris Union High School District. His understanding of technology and its power to transform the educational environment led to his being appointed Director of Technology from 2000 to 2003, when he was selected as Teacher of the Year for Perris High School. In 2004, he was hired as an instructional services specialist in instructional technology for Riverside Unified, where he led successful efforts to win two highly competitive Enhancing Education through Technology grants for the district. Since then, Jay has been instrumental in obtaining state and federal grants as well public and private collaborations totaling more than 8 million dollars. McPhail is a passionate advocate of empowering students at any age to use technology on their terms to learn. He has helped RUSD become a national leader in Bring Your Own Technology, Digital Textbooks and providing broadband access for all.
Berj Akian founded ClassLink, Inc. in 1998. What began as an endeavor to assist a local school in creating a leading edge technology environment, matured into a next generation 24/7 Learning Access solution for the $7 billion U.S. education technology market. Today, ClassLink serves over 1500 schools and over 1.1 million students and teachers across the nation, with a solution that provides anytime, anywhere access to instructional software and files to students and teachers.
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