Digital Learning at Queenswood
As always at Queenswood, we place the student at the centre of all our strategic thinking. Use of a 1:1 device programme ensures that all of our students gain the skills, confidence and digital fluency required to thrive both in higher education and the modern workplace.
Our Chromebook 1:1 device offers many advantages:
- Better Security and Safeguarding:
We can more effectively restrict the device to better separate personal and educational content, creating a rigorous and robust digital learning environment. Monitoring software will be used to prevent device misuse. - Improved Teaching and Learning:
Staff training and lesson planning can be built around a specific device, allowing teachers to more effectively embed EdTech into their lessons. Teachers can now plan their lessons to the specific advantages of a single device, such as the touchscreen and e-inking, safe in the knowledge that all students will have a functioning device that is ready for learning. This will allow us to build more interactive, collaborative lessons into our schemes of work, further leveraging our expertise in teaching girls. - Centralised Device Management:
Central device management has many advantages. We can ensure the device is always up to date from a software and security point of view. We can centrally push applications teachers want to use easily and seamlessly to the devices without the wasted time and technical issues of students doing this individually. We can provide a backup device for students in certain circumstances to ensure that everybody always has a device and is ready to learn.
The benefits of 1:1 devices in the classroom are clear. Our approach combines the huge experience of our staff body with innovative research-led teaching practice. Personal devices aid teaching and learning by increasing discovery learning, independence, metacognition, collaboration and enabling detailed and focused feedback which empowers pupils to take control of their own learning journey.
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