Digital Learning Technologies

Digital Learning at IPS will be irresistibly engaging for students and teachers across all learning areas and domains.  Our students will become innovative and confident users of digital technologies, using technology to communicate, collaborate, curate and create, while fostering higher order thinking skills and real life problem solving.

Technology in practice: students experiencing programming in a Robotics demonstration.

Initiatives such as Innovation Day focus on exposing students to technology practices such as programming applications in the real world. Students redefine the content of what they are learning through meaningful problem solving and developing creative solutions to complicated tasks. Traditionally schools have given the students the problem and solutions to work through, or a formula to solve it. We want our students to create and add value to their education by identifying problems worth solving and then collaborate to explore creative solutions.

View a short video compiled by students and teachers from a past Innovation Day.

In 2016 we introduced the Digital Learning Technology Co-contribution so that we could build some strong foundations for the achievement of enhanced learning outcomes in this important area.

We do request parents make a payment of a $119 as a Digital Technology Co-contribution.  Your contribution will play a vital role in helping our students to become innovative and confident users of digital technologies.  Who knows what they could invent!

To stay curent, we continue to invest in the tools and knowledge required for teachers and students across all year levels. 

Our primary focus for this year is:

  • Funding ongoing regular technical support;

  • Continuing to grow our pool of resources – further increasing student device ratios and other broad access technology tools and resources; and 

  • Funding the development and training support for our teaching staff to ensure they are capable and confident with the technology tools in the classroom.

Digital disruption is now common-place and the potential of technology in the future world that our students will shape, is something that many of us can’t even imagine.  Already, what was science-fiction yesterday – is science-fact today: Our pets are microchipped; cars are driver-less; and robots can vacuum houses!

Year One

“ All the classrooms that we go to for our lessons each week now have an interactive projector in them. I really like the Art room projector because the board can be moved up and down so that we can create pieces of digital art as well! There is also lots of new computers that we can use for our learning every day! “

Student Testimonials

Year Three

‘‘ We have been using the programs within Office 365. Our focus so far has been exploring and using an exciting application called OneNote. This app is like a digital notebook and you can do lots of things like insert websites and create activities. ‘‘

Year Six

“ Having so much technology available in the upper school allows us to best prepare ourselves for the transition into high school. The interactive whiteboard is great for demonstrating how we learn as each laptop can be wirelessly displayed from our anyway where in the classroom! ‘‘