Digital Technologies

Digital Technologies

St Michael’s students use a range of digital technologies to aid their learning in the classroom. Our goal in this area is to expose our students to a variety of processes and learning which can assist them to gain appropriate information, share knowledge and data, curate important knowledge, communicate ideas, visualise critical concepts and more. 

All students have access to a device, either an iPad in the Junior School or a Chromebook from Years Three to Six and all students have individual Google accounts, allowing them to email, create documents and slide presentations and have access to their own calendar. Research and information sharing form a large part of their overall learning. Students upload learning to the Seesaw App to share their learning with parents. Students from Years Three to Six also have access to Google Classroom where learning is uploaded for them to access and complete, with the support of their classroom teacher.

Alongside these daily devices, students have the options to explore a range of technologies to enhance their learning. Those include the Black Box Theatre (A dedicated green screen room, audio capturing studio and theatre room), Spheros, Stikbots, Ozobots, Dashbots and Makey Makey.

Other Digital Technologies accessed by students are:

Cybersafety

Cybersafety is the safe and responsible use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).  Children are increasingly using technology in their day-to-day lives, therefore Cybersafety education and safety protocols are imperative.

At St Michael’s we

• maintain a positive approach about the many benefits technologies offer. 
• have strategies in place to minimise and manage risks.
• have a Cybersafety program which aims to teach students about how to be safe online and how to be responsible digital citizens.
• provide information to parents about Cybersafety.

St Michael’s School engages the services of Inform and Empower, a Digital Safety and Wellbeing organisation which supports schools in teaching the vital skills of cybersafety with both parents and students. Our students participate in a termly online incursion to learn about various areas within the cybersafety sphere. 

We source information through the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and this includes student, staff and parent education.  For further information visit the ACMA Cybersmart website: http://www.cybersmart.gov.au

St Michael’s is also part of the eSmart initiative, which is supported by the Alannah and Madeline Foundation. eSmart is a framework approach to help improve cybersafety and wellbeing in Australian schools.  For further information visit the eSmart website: http://www.amf.org.au