We are living in a constantly evolving digital world and technology has an impact on nearly every aspect of our lives. And, we are very lucky to be able to use this technology in school to develop skills that will help us in the world of work and in our journey as lifelong learners in our ever advancing world.
Here are some of the ways that we use ICT to enhance our teaching and learning in Mid Calder Primary School:
Thank you to all the parents and carers who attended our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) parent information session. For those who were unable to attend, here is the PowerPoint that some of our Technical Troopers, Pupil Council and House Captains brilliantly presented. Thank you to those pupils for giving up their time to share our BYOD journey so far.
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/aal-and-byod-parent-information
This afternoon P4 have been exploring Yammer, one of the services available from Glow. We have created a secure Yammer Group for our P4 Interdisciplinary Context for Learning – Project Planetarium. In this group Miss Burton uploaded photos from of our learning and we had to comment on our learning. We also uploaded our Tim Peake Biography’s and peer assessed them. We are excited about the possibilities of Yammer to help us share our learning and collaborate with each other.
âI am developing my knowledge and use of safe and acceptable conduct as I use different technologies to interact and share experiences, ideas and information with others.’ TCH1-08a
Learning Intention: We are learning how to stay safe online
Success Criteria: I can create a poster show different ways in which I can stay safe online.
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This week as part âSafer Internet Day,â we have been thinking about different ways in which we can stay safe online. We had lots of wonderful ideas and we made our own e safety posters to show how we can stay safe when we are using the internet.
Mr Nelson.
Today during Junior Leadership time, the Technical Troopers and Pupil Council had a meeting to look at a Bring Your Own Device Contract. In groups we brainstormed all the ways we needed to behave in order to be responsible and respectful, if could bring our devices to school.
Watch this space!
Over the past four weeks the children at the P1-3 ICT club have been learning from each other to:
– Program Beebot to travel along paths and mazes
– Use the paint tool in Purple Mash
– Access Sumdog
– Explore apps on our new IPads.
We have all learned new ICT skills as well as develop our communication and problem-solving skills whilst having great fun.
 
Last week we had our first House meeting of 2016 and the House and Vice Captains decided the focus should be on Anytime Anywhere Learning (AAL), Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and internet safety, as these are currently hot topics of conversations in our school.
As usual we started the meeting going over the plan for the meeting and expectations. Then the house members took part in a community builder. The House and Vice Captains showed us a video about internet safety as it is Internet Safety Day soon.
This led on to telling us about Bring Your Own Device, this is something the Technical Troopers and Pupil Council are leading. We had to create a post-it pledge to show how we would follow our school values of responsible and respectful if we became a BYOD school. The House and Vice Captains have taken these post-its and created a school crest.
Thank you to the House and Vice Captains, and P7s for organising such an interesting house meeting.
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/house-meeting-3
On Thursday some of our Pupil Council and Technical Troopers took part in a Glow Meet with some pupils from Williamston Primary School. Some classes at Williamston Primary already use Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), so we decided we would ask them some questions about their journey, including the benefits of BYOD and how they resolved any issues they came across. A big thank you to the P6s who gave gave some of their lunch time to meet with us, we have lots to think about.
Today at our Pupil Council meeting we discussed the concerns we had about bring our own device and came up with some solutions.
On Thursday some of the Pupil Council and Technical Troopers are having a Glow Meet with the Pupil Council at Williamston Primary. They are using BYOD and we think we could learn lots of them.
Our new school devices are almost ready to use on our Anytime Anywhere Learning network … We are very excited abut the possibilities this will have for us and our teachers!
This week the Pupil Council and Technical Troopers took part in some very exciting discussions about Anytime Anywhere Learning (AAL). AAL is when we have a wifi network where we can connect handheld devices to the internet. The first stage of AAL is when we connect our in school devices such as iPads to the network, the second stage is bring your own device (BYOD) that is when we have the opportunity to bring our own devices into school.
We are currently at stage one.
The Pupil Council and Technical Troopers have a lot of research to do before we are allowed to bring our own device to school, this will begin will a consultation with pupils and parents … so watch this space!
This week during our Junior Leadership Team meeting we discussed the benefits and issues of bring your own device. Next time we will look at the issues and see if we can think of solutions. If you have any thoughts on bring your own device please leave a comment below.
