“The strength of technology truly emerges when it gives students more agency and control over their learning and adapts to each student in terms of the level and speed of learning.”ĭennis will teach one of Haileybury Pangea’s first subjects – Understanding Social Media Marketing. “Haileybury was looking at this pre-pandemic because there is a need for high quality, flexible education and technology can help deliver that.”ĭennis said that in an online classroom, students can have targeted time with teachers to develop their skills and receive materials to complete between classes so they keep learning at a time that suits them. “Not everyone can physically access our campuses because of where they are or because of life circumstances and we want to provide an alternative approach to education,” Dennis said. This year, pending regulatory approval, Haileybury takes the combination of technology and education a step further with the launch of Australia’s first private virtual online school for school-age students, called Haileybury Pangea.
Dennis said this no doubt played a role in the school continuing to achieve impressive VCE results.
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This forward-thinking approach to bringing the worlds of education and technology together and to investing in online delivery systems paid dividends during the pandemic.ĭuring a series of lockdowns, Haileybury swiftly and smoothly transitioned to remote learning so classes could continue. Haileybury has been an early adopter of a raft of technological tools in its Early Learning Centres through to its Senior School classrooms. It delivers feedback at the time when students need to hear it,” she said. “At Haileybury, we use an assessment system that ensures feedback is given at the right time by teachers annotating work or providing audio comments when students actually produce the work.
You learn from that, change what you are doing and try again.”ĭennis said when that concept is built into technology tools in the classroom, students can pick up new ideas more quickly and apply them. “In video games, when you make a mistake, the game instantly reacts and you lose points or your character goes back to the starting point of the game. “Technology is also providing students with immediate feedback to better guide their learning,” she said. Haileybury has leveraged technology not only by teachers running separate Zoom rooms to accommodate different groups of students working on different tasks, but also provides a separate platform, Canvas, where resources and course materials can be shared.ĭennis said Canvas also provides an important avenue for students to engage with their classmates and for parents to stay connected with their child’s progress. Used in the right way, technology can be magic,” she said. “There are also tools now that allow students with dyslexia to read content in ways that make it easier to follow. “Teachers are increasingly having to adopt technological tools to support their teaching methods and we’re seeing an increase in technology organisations not only willing to work with education, but to put education first.”ĭennis pointed to Microsoft’s OneNote, which was developed specifically to make the learning experience better, as an example of this. The pandemic accelerated the impact and momentum,” Michelle Dennis, Head of Digital at Haileybury, told The Educator. “Technology has always had an impact on education-it has always found a way into the classroom but at a slower pace. In the early 1990s, the internet brought technology into classrooms and homes across the country.
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Classroom technology stepped up another level when IBM released the first portable computer in 1981 and the first Apple Mac arrived in schools in 1984.
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