Digital Technology
NZ Curriculum
As an education system, we want to equip our young people with the right set of skills for whatever path they choose to follow.
We live in a ‘fast evolving digital world’ that is characterised by changing ways of living and working.
Digital technologies are used everywhere: we have automatic scanners at the supermarkets to buy our food, drones helping farmers to know when to water their crops, and surgeons using robots to preform some surgeries.
What do we mean when we say digital technologies @ RIS?
It’s about:
Helping to develop digitally capable thinkers, producers and creators
teaching kids HOW digital technologies work and how they can use that knowledge to solve problems so they become creative innovators of digital solutions.
Our goal at RIS is to ensure that all learners have the opportunity to become digitally capable individuals. The Pathway and classroom learning programmes will have a greater focus for students to build their knowledge and skills, moving beyond solely being users and consumers of digital technologies.
BYOC
Rotorua Intermediate School is providing unique learning approaches for students. We are endeavouring to accommodate students with 1-1 devices. We encourage parents to invest in their child’s future learning by purchasing for them their own chromebook, thereby allowing for anytime, anywhere learning.
Within our school environment this personal device will allow them the opportunity to continuously integrate their learning both inside and outside the classroom environment. Every classroom will have the required IT support to ensure learning is successful.
BYOCs have the potential for positive and continuous connectivity which will enhance student continuous learning engagement. This BYOC opportunity is aimed to give students unlimited access to resources and enables them to support, extend, communicate and share their learning in a way more akin to the world they are growing up in and will be required to work and learn in.
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Google Apps
G Suite transforms how teachers and students learn, work, and innovate together using free, secure tools from G Suite for Education.
At RIS Google App tools supports collaborative and personalised learning.