Bring Your Own Device Overview Wangaratta High School runs a Bring Your Own Device Program (BYOD). The use of technology to facilitate learning enhances the teaching and learning process at Wangaratta High School. Our aim is to ensure that all students have skills to access opportunities to learn anytime, anywhere, given the recent complexities to education and work in the post-COVID era. Students also need to learn how to manage and operate technology, but mostly, they need to know how to leverage technology to make things happen – to enhance their learning and enact their ideas. Students will develop information and communication technology (ICT) capabilities as they learn to use ICT tools effectively and appropriately to access, create and communicate information and ideas. Never in our history has there been such easy access to knowledge and information. The key role for educators and parents is now to help students access this appropriately. Students from Year 7 to Year 12 will be asked to bring a suitable device to school each day to support their learning. Students will be permitted to use a Windows or a macOS device, however, these devices will need to meet a set of minimum requirements which are outlined in this document. These devices are required to enhance the teaching & learning experience, but they do not drive it. Some of the key reasons we are embracing devices in the classroom: • • • •
Learning is not just confined to the classroom. Learning can take place anywhere and a quality device is critical. Students will have the opportunity to be more responsible, efficient, and organised in their daily school life which will build their skills in our Ready to Learn & Personal Best values. Students are more likely to care for and maintain a device they have been involved in choosing and that they own, reducing breakages and loss which can lead to downtime in learning. Students are more likely to take responsibility and initiative in learning about their device and how it can support and enhance their learning if they own it.
Wangaratta High School has partnered with Learning With Technology (LWT), who have put together a portal that allows parents to purchase devices that meet all our minimum requirements. Parents can access further information and purchase devices by visiting the following link https://wangarattahs.orderportal.com.au/ Please read through the following Frequently Asked Questions for further information. If you have any queries, please contact the school.