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This post meshes well with the talk on Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) I summarized a couple of weeks ago. Eric Sheninger raises the issue of "device envy" and reports that it slows down or even stalls BYOD initiatives. "In any case," he writes, "the ones who suffer are our students.  In today's digital age, who are we to tell a student that he or she cannot bring their tools to class to support learning?" Good point. The response, he says, is to keep the focus on learning, deal with device envy in positive ways, and ensure that the school has technology available for people who need it. " When it was all said and done we never received one complaint from our parents on the equity or envy issues," he writes.

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