Technologies

Student Devices

At Aldinga Beach Primary School, our students engage with a range of devices from their early years through to graduating. Students from Reception to Year 2 have access to iPads, which they use across various subjects to enhance their learning experience. They also engage with technological tools, like Robotics and digital spaces, such as Maker’s Empire. From Year 3 to Year 6, students are provided with one-to-one devices, specifically Chromebooks, which they retain throughout these years. This initiative supports their learning through digital platforms such as Google Classroom and SeeSaw, fostering essential skills in both using and creating technologies.

Students are explicitly taught how to operate, look after and maintain the working quality of the device as a learning tool. Student ICT user agreements are discussed and followed, so that students understand the responsibility of being digital citizens and to minimise any possible damage to devices. All devices remain at school and are easily accessible from classrooms.

Learning with Technologies

Technology has become an integral part of our everyday lives. For this reason, technology is integrated into many learning areas and every age group at Aldinga Beach Primary. Technology is used regularly within classrooms with interactive and engaging activities that foster a curiosity for learning through a digital lens. Technological concepts are taught through the Design and Digital Technologies curriculum. Students across all year levels develop coding skills, learn to work collaboratively, problem solve and create solutions through a range of relevant and meaningful experiences. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) is a way of thinking about problems and finding solutions. Through a design framework, students develop the thinking skills they will need to be future innovators, entrepreneurs, inventors and consumers of technologies. Higher order thinking skills are crucial in STEM, where we challenge students to go past remembering, understanding and applying and begin to create, evaluate and analyse.