In order to comply with the expectations of the new Australian Curriculum, access to ICT in the school setting is essential, and this can be facilitated through a BYOD approach. Not only is ICT capability identified as one of the key General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum, it is also features in the content descriptions of specific subjects. For example, within the Literacy strand and Creating Texts sub-strand in English, Year 9 students (usually aged 13 or 14) are required to Use a range of software, including word processing programmes, flexibly and imaginatively to publish texts' (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA],n.d.-a). The positioning of ICT in the curriculum is such that it is "therefore no longer optional for teachers to integrate digital texts in the classroom', and "it is of course convenient and appropriate to work with such texts not only on desktop or laptop computers, but on mobile handheld devices' (Oakley et al., 2012: 8