Sciennes is proud to have been selected in March 2012 as a pilot school for City of Edinburgh in 1:1 learning with mobile technology and a tremendous amount has been achieved in the last year by Class Teachers Wendy French and Fiona Barker. Throughout the pilot their P7 and P6 classes have had a personal iPad for use in school and at home to enhance learning and teaching. Our remaining two P6 and two P7 classes have had access to a shared set of iPads which has remained in school. On Thursday 6th June Mrs Noble and Ms Gallagher gave a presentation to Primary Headteachers with our co-pilots Chris Kelly, DHT from Broomhouse and Pauline Walker HT at Gracemount, sharing the successes and impact of the Edinburgh and National pilots. From August, each of our three P7 classes will have exclusive use of an iPad each, at school and at home.
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Three more city schools to equip pupils with iPads
A pilot scheme that equips
school pupils with tablet computers has proved so successful it is to be
rolled out to further schools across the Capital.
Education bosses have confirmed pupils
at Portobello, Tynecastle and Drummond high schools will be given Apple
iPads when the new session begins in August.
They will follow in the footsteps of counterparts at Broomhouse and Sciennes primaries, as well as Gracemount and Forrester High, where the equipment has been in use for weeks.
Staff at Portobello High said the devices – which will give pupils access to thousands of cutting-edge educational apps – would enable learning that is more relevant to everyday life.
Brian Clark, the school’s curricular leader for computing and business education, said: “This is about catching up with the real world outside of education. By engaging with technology that’s relevant to pupils today, we can design experiences that make pupils feel that what they’re doing in school has value in their own lives.”
Under the pilot scheme, pupils at the three schools will be able to take their tablets home with them for use during homework exercises.
Parents will be asked to sign agreements to ensure their children are not accessing inappropriate online content, while controls at school will be provided through the council’s filtering system.
Staff said giving pupils the freedom to use tablets to direct their own learning was a key plank of the new project.
“It’s the flipped classroom idea – one of the ideas behind this is that teachers can create content pupils will engage with at home and then apply in class with the support of teachers,” said Mr Clark.
“Traditionally, problem- solving and applied knowledge was done as homework that was ‘given’ by teachers. But with this, pupils have much more control over the functionality of their own device. This is about giving them the ability to learn and investigate things they are interested in.”
Education bosses said the speed of the pilot’s roll-out was testament to its success. A meeting to discuss whether the £400 devices should be given to all city school pupils is set to take place in the autumn.
Councillor Paul Godzik, education leader, said: “Feedback from the schools involved in the pilot project has been very encouraging so it’s great news that three more will start using this technology.
“Mobile devices and tablets are increasingly becoming a part of everyday life. We believe that their use in the learning environment has huge potential and could open up exciting learning opportunities.”
They will follow in the footsteps of counterparts at Broomhouse and Sciennes primaries, as well as Gracemount and Forrester High, where the equipment has been in use for weeks.
Staff at Portobello High said the devices – which will give pupils access to thousands of cutting-edge educational apps – would enable learning that is more relevant to everyday life.
Brian Clark, the school’s curricular leader for computing and business education, said: “This is about catching up with the real world outside of education. By engaging with technology that’s relevant to pupils today, we can design experiences that make pupils feel that what they’re doing in school has value in their own lives.”
Under the pilot scheme, pupils at the three schools will be able to take their tablets home with them for use during homework exercises.
Parents will be asked to sign agreements to ensure their children are not accessing inappropriate online content, while controls at school will be provided through the council’s filtering system.
Staff said giving pupils the freedom to use tablets to direct their own learning was a key plank of the new project.
“It’s the flipped classroom idea – one of the ideas behind this is that teachers can create content pupils will engage with at home and then apply in class with the support of teachers,” said Mr Clark.
“Traditionally, problem- solving and applied knowledge was done as homework that was ‘given’ by teachers. But with this, pupils have much more control over the functionality of their own device. This is about giving them the ability to learn and investigate things they are interested in.”
Education bosses said the speed of the pilot’s roll-out was testament to its success. A meeting to discuss whether the £400 devices should be given to all city school pupils is set to take place in the autumn.
Councillor Paul Godzik, education leader, said: “Feedback from the schools involved in the pilot project has been very encouraging so it’s great news that three more will start using this technology.
“Mobile devices and tablets are increasingly becoming a part of everyday life. We believe that their use in the learning environment has huge potential and could open up exciting learning opportunities.”
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