After a nice mini break for special projects week we are back again for another week of TME!
This lesson was a little different and our topic was "BYOD" (Bring your own device). There are obviously pros and cons of this idea. In this research article "Bring your own device in Education" reviews the pros and cons of BYOD. Coming from a primary school and of lower socio-economical area and then going to a independent catholic high school. I have experiences both the effects of BYOD. Like mentioned in the article, it does is cost effective because students are bringing in their own devices and if they wanted to fix or add anything it was up to the student. However this can be flipped, like in my primary school, families there wouldn't have enough to spare for a new device and it would be very difficult for them to set aside money on top of the students education to bring in their own device. Even so, maintaining a device does also come with costs. Another problem would be monitoring students activity, my high school gave out laptops which was included in our school fees which also implemented a program where teachers can view our screen from their device whenever they wanted. As a student it does seem like a breach of privacy but it is important that students are staying on task and doing what they should be. However, since we are in the year of the pandemic, COVID-19 has created new talk about BYOD and how it is soooo important nower days. Without technology students wouldn't be able to continue their study over Zoom or other video meeting programs. The second portion of our lesson we looked at both bandLab and io-808. Personally I really disliked io-808, it took me too long to figure out what we happening, however Bandlab was very similar to Soundtrap but still I do prefer soundtrap because of the visuals and the ease of it.
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