Future Focussed Learning

Our children are entering a world that is looking for abilities far different from the traditional. We want them to be able to collect, synthesise and analyse information and then work collaboratively with others to apply that knowledge. They need to learn how to learn and to respond to the constantly changing technologies and social and global changes in the world.

We wish to invite all parents and caregivers who have a child in Year 2 this year and any other interested whanau. To find out more about our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) setup that we offer at Sunnyhills from Years 3-6.

This year's event will be held on Wednesday 25 November at 7pm in the school staffroom.

PB Technologies will also attend with a variety of Chromebooks and case and headphone bundles for you to see. Please register your attendance and add any questions you have so that we can help cater for these in our presentation.

Current Session times:

2020

Wednesday 9 December 3:00, 4:00 Thursday 10 December 3:00, 4:00

2021

Friday 29 January 10:00, 11:00, 1:00, 2:00

Tuesday 2 February 3:00

Wednesday 3 February 3:10, 4:00, 5:00

Thursday 4 February 3:00, 4:00

Friday 5 February 3:00

We recommend a Chromebook for students who are

bringing a device to school in year 3-6.

What to look for in a device:

• Light Weight

• Great battery

• Tough casing

• Auto-update life of 3 years or more (details here for Chromebooks)

Why a Chromebook?

• Easy login process for students

• Chromebooks work seamlessly in the Google Environment

• Cloud-based storage

• Automatically complete software updates without disruption

• Light-weight and great battery life

• Less on-device distractions

• Easy to powerwash - reset to factory settings if there is an error

• Don't currently require anti-virus software

Bring Your Own Device allows students to have one-to-one time on a device that is set up to their specifications for their learning. This has many benefits, including:

• enabling students to take increasing responsibility for their own learning

• empowering students to learn at a pace and place as well as a way which suits them

• teaches students how to discern what tool will best help with their learning

• encouraging and enabling teachers to more easily implement personalised learning

• prepares students for a future where they are likely to be working in an environment with increasing amounts of technology and IT/collaborative/cloud based tools.

How does Google Suite for Education (previously GAFE) work?

The Google Suite for Education (GSuite) offers apps for email, calendar, blogs, documents, presentations and website creation as well as Google Drive, which is a way of organising all of the work done on these apps. The use of these apps are free and can be used in ‘the cloud’ - a collaborative environment where others can access and work on documents together in real time. GSuite allows students to access their work from school, home, the local library - anywhere with an internet connection.

What is Hapara Teacher Dashboard?

Hapara Teacher Dashboard is an interface which brings together the tools of GSuite in an overview style so that teachers can access, set tasks, mark and comment on work completed in the GSuite. It gives teachers the ability to oversee an entire class of work, like they would a class set of exercise books. It also allows teachers and senior school staff the ability to oversee all the activity of any student account. This gives the ability to do a range of things, including, but not limited to: changing passwords if students forget them or suspending an account if the Student Responsibility Agreement is breached. You can read more about Teacher Dashboard here: https://hapara.com/products/g-suite/