Parenting with Technology

Why a BYOD program?

‘To personalise learning through active engagement using current technologies.’

1. Bring education into the 21st Century

2. Equip students with 21st Century skills

3. Compliance with Australian Curriculum

4. Facilitate creative, innovative & individualised approaches

5. Improve engagement

6. Enhance responsibility & maturity

Bring education into the 21st Century

• ICT increasingly used in industry• ICT increasingly used in our lives• Normalise use of ICT

• ‘Technology is not really a choice anymore. It has infiltrated and changed our world so completely’ – Professor Yong Zhao

Equip students with 21st Century skills

• ‘Our current expectations for what our students should learn were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.’ – Bill Gates

• Globalisation – nature of jobs changing

Compliance with Australian Curriculum

• ICT skills listed as General Capability• Tested nationally• Not a subject• Integrated• Facilitate learning across all areas

Facilitate creative, innovative & individualised approaches

• Technologies replacing blackboards?• Web 2.0 – collaboration, innovation, creativity• Not ‘just adding technology’• 3 seconds from knowledge• Give meaning to knowledge

Improve Engagement

• 1998 Our Year 8s were born Aged 0• 1998 Google Aged 0• 2001 Wikipedia Aged 3• 2001 iPod Aged 3• 2003 Myspace Aged 5• 2003 3G mobile phones Aged 5• 2004 Facebook Aged 6• 2005 YouTube Aged 7

Enhance responsibility & maturity

• Trust• Off-task• Self-discipline• Responsibility

Partnership

• We are on the journey together• Feedback• Training• Information sessions

– Year 6 and Year 7 device distribution Week 10/11– Year 5 and Year 8 specific nights in Term 3

Contacts

Class Teacher

David Youngman

Director of Innovation

swaninnovation@scea.wa.edu.au

Sean Greenacre

Acting Principal

seang@scea.wa.edu.au