TECHNOLOGY
Technology is changing fast and our education system needs to grow and adapt with it.
We are changing how we equip our children and young people to participate, create, and thrive in this fast-evolving digital world.
We are a Manaiakalani Outreach School which has a pedagogy of Learn Create Share through the use of IT. (www.manaiakalani.orgl
Students have access to the internet which has security filtering through the Ministry of Education's Network for Learning (N4L).
Parents/caregivers are asked to sign and go over the Cybersmart Student User Agreement with their children, and Yr 4 students, themselves, are asked to co-sign the agreement. (Please refer to the Cybersmart Student User Agreement Information at the end of the booklet.)
What is technology about?
Kaua e rangiruatia te hāpai o te hoe;
e kore tō tātou waka e ū ki uta.
Technology is intervention by design. It uses intellectual and practical resources to create technological outcomes, which expand human possibilities by addressing needs and realising opportunities.
Design is characterised by innovation and adaptation and is at the heart of technological practice. It is informed by critical and creative thinking and specific design processes. Effective and ethical design respects the unique relationship that New Zealanders have with their physical environment and embraces the significance of Māori culture and world views in its practice and innovation.
Technology makes enterprising use of knowledge, skills and practices for exploration and communication, some specific to areas within technology and some from other disciplines. These include digitally-aided design, programming, software development, various forms of technological modelling, and visual literacy – the ability to make sense of images and the ability to make images that make sense.
Our Year 7 & 8 pupils attend the Linwood Technology Centre, 39 Nursery Road, Phillipstown, on Tuesday afternoons to learn technology using different mediums, eg plastics and metal.
Pupils travel by bus, returning to school at 3 pm.