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Digital Citizenship

Technology Literacy

Computational Thinking

Managing & Operating Technology

Researching with Technology

Design Thinking

Digital Citizenship

Common Sense EducationCommon Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Find a free K-12 Digital Citizenship curriculum, reviews of popular EdTech apps, and resources for protecting student privacy.

Computational Thinking

Programming for Kids | KodableProgramming for kids, made with love. Easy to follow lessons focused on student outcomes so you can teach your students to code.

Kodable

NUR-SKG

Free for educators - paid subscription for parents.

Coding Game for Kids - Try it Free!Try the #1 learn-to-code app for kids ages 5-9. Used by over 20 million kids worldwide, kids learn coding basics with puzzles and build skills to make their own games.

codeSpark

Grade 1 - 2

Free for educators - paid subscription for parents.

Coding for KidsTynker makes it fun and easy to learn computer programming. Get started today with Tynker's easy-to-learn, visual programming course designed for young learners in 4th through 8th grades.

Tynker

Grade 2 - 3

Limited free content for educators and parents. Paid subscription for pro version.

Scratch - Imagine, Program, ShareScratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

Scratch

Grade 4 - 5

Free for everybody forever! No app version only web based.

Researching with Technology

List of Safe search engines - Share with Teachers

Enabling Safe Search Settings for Parents

Safe Search Engines for Research.pdf

Safe Search Parent Guide.pdf

Technology Literacy

We use a range of online and offline resources to develop 'Technology Literacy'. As stated by the IBO, (The Learning Community, IBO, Pg. 52-53) "Technology supports the IB position on language, literacy and multiliteracies, that develop students’ ability to engage with multiple texts in multiple modes." We develop multiliteracies through learning engagements in Literacy, Mathematics and Units of Inquiry by employing digital tools that can either substitute, augment, modify or redefine non-digital tools. As we are a predominately iPad school, we use a range of apps that build and encourage multiliteracy skills.

We have created a list of curated and age-appropriate app and compiled them into our 'App Directory'.

Each academic year we review the list of apps for usage and relevance and update our internal app list. It is by no means an exhaustive list, but it is attached for reference.

App Directory 3.0

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Managing & Operating Technology

275 iPads, 18 Apple TVs across Primary

NUR/JKG

Teacher-led

(20 iPads)

SKG

1:6

(20 iPads)

Grade 1 & 2

1:3

(40 per grade)

Grade 3 & 4

1:2

(60 per grade)

Grade 5

1:1

(BYOD)

The use of Apple TV, allows teachers to connect their Apple devices to a projector without the need for cables, adapters or aux wires. Teachers can seamlessly draw or present on an iPad and the screen is projected. Students can also share their screen on the projector when sharing group or individual work. This way of flexible presenting is definitely the future.

We use Apple School Manager and Apple Classroom in combination with other third-party MDM's to ensure students are safe and secure when using iPads in school.