by William Cohen, Technology+Games
The solution being given increasing attention is Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). BYOD has been popular in the business world for several years as activities ranging from email and calendar management to word processing and graphic design has migrated to hardware owned by employees. Ivan (not his real name) remembers the first year of the laptop roll-out well – he was in Year 12 at a school in Sydney’s western suburbs. “This was a whole new concept – a free laptop. There was definitely a bit of jealousy amongst the older years (who missed out)”. However, as it quickly became clear how many limitations had been placed on the device in terms of internet access and admin privileges, the mood soon turned to “let’s see how we can break (hack) this.” Ivan is now one of an army of people working in technical support roles at public high schools across Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2013/02/04/3682334.htm
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