When I am creating lesson plans and teaching strategy for teaching them, I need to think about BYOD. Of course I am not writing policies for our requirements for them. But I do need to be aware of my audience's digital knowledge and their device usage. For this I face three challenges. The first one is the difference in demographics of the audience. From India I get students who refer to the site occasionally through the desktop. From Singapore and Malaysia I have teachers and students using the site as a reference. In South Africa I have adults using this site to learn Tamil as their second language. While in Singapore the teacher a use the device the student uses mobile devices only because of the cost. In south Africa The users senti use digital devices for the social interaction purpose only. Most of them use windows and android platform devices. The Apple devices are very costly for them.
From USA I have adult and children as my audience who have the technical knowledge and its pads.
The second Challenge I face is their language skill. While most of them use the site for reference some of them want to use the site for learning the language. So there is no way for me to measure their skill level per say.
The third challenge is time zone differences. The world wide audience makes it hard for me to be available for communication in different time zones.
To face the first challenge I am using INacol standard and common core standard as my basic principles for designing the instruction. For assessment methods I am using Blooms Taxonomy of Higher learningThis helps me create lessons for all skill levels also. As for communication I am using only Email and my blog posts, Facebook and Twitter as my communication tool.
I know BYOD principles are applicable only to classroom settings. But has to be considered in a virtual classroom too. The audience only connect to the classroom with their own device. So It is important for me to flexible with their needs.
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