Educators
and policy makers continue to debate whether computers are a good teaching
tool. But a growing number of schools are adopting a new, even more
controversial approach: asking students to bring their own smart phones,
tablets, laptops and even their video game players to class.
Officials
at the schools say the students’ own devices are the simplest way to use a new
generation of learning apps that can, for example, teach them math, test them
with quizzes and enable them to share and comment on each other’s essays.
Advocates
of this new trend, called B.Y.O.T. for bring your own technology, say there is
another advantage: it saves money for schools short of cash.
Some
large school districts in Central Florida and near Houston and Atlanta have
already signed on, and they are fielding calls and providing tours to
administrators from hundreds of other districts that are considering whether to
follow their lead.
But
B.Y.O.T. has many skeptics, even among people who otherwise see benefits of
using more technology in classrooms.
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