This document provides information about a school's digital literacy and laptop program. It introduces the presenters and describes an experiment in digital learning. It outlines 21st century skills like creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration that are developed through digital tools. It details the school's digital literacy delivery model including a curriculum, project days, and periodic lessons. Skills taught include digital storytelling, presentation, communication, and data manipulation. The laptop model is an HP recommended for its features and three-year damage policy. The school has invested in infrastructure like wireless networks, servers, and technical support to enable digital learning.

1. Digital Literacy & Laptop Information
Evening
23rd April 2013

2. Welcome
Paul Tough Vice Principal
Mike Waller Director of Pre16 Learning
Hugh Brown Learning Technology Coordinator

3. An Experiment
Children Learn Differently

4. 10,000 Hours

5. Digital Natives - Generation C iMyth
(Digital) Capability Gap

6. 21st Century Skills

7. Ways of Thinking
Creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving,
decision-making

8. Ways of Working
Communication
Collaboration
Enquiry

9. Tools for Working
Information and
communications
technology (ICT)
Digital Literacy

10. Digital Developmental Pathway

11. Digital Literacy Delivery Model
Curriculum
Project Days
(Years 7 to 10)
Personal
Project Parent
Conferences
Digital Literacy
Period
Years 7 to 9
10 & 11
Faculty ICT
DT
Computer
Technology

12. Skills
WIS - Digital Skills (Moodle, ePortfolio Management, Passwords, eMail, embedding, file
management, touch typing, html, css)
Digital Storytelling (storyboarding, audience,
message, camera angles, cuts, sound, editing)
Digital Presentation (Prezi, Photoshop, Powerpoint, in
Digital Audio (Skills, mixing, interviewing)
Digital Communication (Twitter, Infographics)
Data (creation, manipulation and communication)
Gaming
Robotics

13. Digital Literacy Curriculum
2 Teachers per class
Audience Driven Artifacts
Timed Skill Delivery
Common Assessment Expectations

14. Wisdom - Our VLE

16. Spanish Video

17. ePortfolio
Individual Student ePortfolio
Shared Dropbox

18. Induction Week - Aims
Comfortable
Friends
Happy
Friday August 23rd August

19. Laptop - HP 9470m
Business Level Machine
3 Years Accidental Damage Policy
Large Screen
Lighter (SSD option)
MS Office 2013
Adobe CS 6
Low voltage chipset

20. West Island Investment
CPD, VLE,
Service Desk Team (Technical Support, Management of ADP)
360 eSafe - eCouncil
Wireless, Wireless, Wireless
Fiber Optic Backbone 100Mb to 1Gb
Complex Ricoh Printing Solution
Firewalls and Servers
IWBs and DPUs in all classrooms

21. Traditional Skills
Blended

22. Thanks & Questions

23. The End