An Introduction This term is an exciting one for learning technologies here at BIS. For the first time we are able to provide the infrastructure necessary to support every student within the secondary school bringing a laptop into school for use during the school day. With the great advantages this provides comes the responsibility to support our students to become safe and responsible users. For students in years 10-13 this is not new, they have spent at least the last year adjusting to 1-to-1 access throughout the school day. Additionally, our new year 7’s who have arrived from the TX or AP1 campuses have enjoyed 1-to-1 access within their classrooms for at least a year now and have engaged with the key elements of enhanced learning and digital citizenship in this context. We look forward to further developing these skills and working with our year 8 and 9 students to ensure we support all our students and meet this responsibility. Instead of rushing to blindly embrace technology at the expense of current excellent practice, we have been cautious, casting a critical eye over its place in education. We have sought advice from other schools, and drawn upon academic literature conscious that every school has it’s own particular context. At BIS our educational objectives are expressed in our mission statement and it is this that should guide us as we integrate learning technologies into school life. Over course of the year I will try to communicate how learning technologies will support us in meeting our mission, specifically:
I will also be discussing broader topics which cover what it means to grow up digitally. Ben Turner |
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