“Enhance Manly West learners towards an innovative tomorrow”
At Manly West State School, we firmly believe in the importance of embedding technology into learning. We are committed to supporting and empowering our students to maximise their full potential. Technology is an important tool in supporting student learning and developing the skills they require for their future.
“Becoming entrepreneurs of tomorrow, students will need to become problem solvers, critical and creative thinkers and innovators.”
Advancing Education Action Plan Department of Education QLD
The iPad is a portable tool that enhances a student's learning engagement and motivation to learn when delivering the Australian Curriculum. The Australian Curriculum emphasises the significant differences inherent in learning in the 21st century.
The most critical factor in any classroom remains the teacher, the iPad is a teaching tool. Our emphasis is on pedagogy: best practice teaching for the best outcomes for students. The iPad enables rich, personalised, high-order, collaborative and creative learning experiences. Its use enables optimal learning outcomes when used as an individual device and not shared. The iPad is utilised as an inclusive learning tool that enables use by all students including those with disabilities and learning difficulties.
Connections to Curriculum
In the Australian Curriculum, students develop Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
capability as they learn to use ICT effectively and appropriately to access, create and communicate
information and ideas, solve problems and work collaboratively in all learning areas at school and in
their lives beyond school.
Manly West State School will assist students to develop their
capability in using ICT for tasks associated with information access
and management, information creation and presentation,
problem-solving, decision-making, communication, creative
expression and empirical reasoning. This includes conducting
research, creating multimedia information products, analysing
data, designing solutions to problems, controlling processes and
devices, and supporting computation while working independently
and in collaboration with others.
Our Digital Pedagogy and learning outcomes align with the ICT
general capabilities, from the Australian Curriculum, which are
organized into 4 interrelated elements in the learning continuum.
These elements will be embedded in our everyday practices and
aligns to the curriculum being taught in every year level.
ICT Capability- V9
Digital Literacy About
Australian Curriculum
Equity and Excellence