Monahan

The other issue facing school districts is legal liability. It used to be that tech facilitators at schools took care of installing and uninstalling all the programs and there was no deep freeze on computers. As a result a lot of staff started to upload illegal software which resulted in several lawsuits against the district. In addition viruses started to become a problem. Schools are ultimately responsible for what is on their equipment and it is costly to maintain many different kinds of equipment. I can see them supporting a BYOD policy as the students become responsible for their own devices.

I see this level of control continuing and even becoming stronger in school districts. The problem is that this kind of system prevents innovation which is why I see this tension between Teachers and IT departments continuing.