Sometimes teachers refer to BYOD as ‘Bring Your Own Distraction’. Certainly managing device use in a classroom presents some different challenges but in my view that is not a reason to avoid leveraging the potential of each student have a device. There is a really good post from Core Education on stragtegies to manage distraction in a 1 to 1 class – check it out here.
Some other tips:
- Be more interesting that Instagram: if the learning is more engaging that other alternatives, you won’t have a problem with digital distractions.
- Lead by example: if you are checking your email, online news, social media during the lesson then maybe you can’t expect students not to…
More Resources:
- Managing Distractions in the 1 to 1 classroom. Podcast episode hosted by Jeff Utecht who talks with Debra Hernanz about strategies to manage distractions
- Classroom management in the Digital Age: Resource to support a book by Patrick Green and Heather Dowd
- TOP TIPS for Classroom Management in the Digital Age: A summary of a book by Patrick Green and Heather Dowd
