Our Journey – Oakleigh State School – Towards Transformation

ICT as a General Capability was a focus for us in addition to ensuring it was included in our pedagogical framework – as an enabler of learning.

After using iPads for two years as shared devices we initiated a BYO Program in Year 4.

We designed this vision in collaboration with our community.

We supported innovation in the classroom – giving teachers permission to trial things and investigate their impact.

The Digital Technologies Curriculum was seen a an exciting opportunity.

We spent a year exploring the curriculum and working with early adopters.

The Young Innovator Program was co-designed with our community and was one of the ideas emerging from a Think-Tank evening.

We sought alignments across the curriculum in order to make this new curriculum relevant.

We trialled an inquiry based STEM program.

We worked with every year level to design units of work.

We started investigating the potential of STEM.

Our parents accompanied us on this journey.

STEAM was our chosen platform with a line of inquiry being the focus.

We are currently working with staff to design units of work.

Further details:

As an Education QLD school, we became an ‘Early Launch School’ of the Digital Technologies Curriculum in late 2015. Much of the work referred to in the page below is contained within an iTunesU course.

We started by exploring the curriculum and creating representations of it to enhance our understanding.

We then thought carefully about what we already did. Much of this was because of our success with implementing ICT as a General Capability within the Australian Curriculum.

We started thinking about coding and robotics across the curriculum and ways it could be used to enhance children’s learning experiences and understanding within other areas.

We then worked with volunteer teachers to explore aspects of the new curriculum.

Much of this work is shared through the main blog posts of this site.

We have also created a document which details alignment between the Digital Technologies Curriculum and other areas of the curriculum. This was created with the assistance of Mount Coot-tha Cluster support. Please visit the Curriculum Alignment page of this web to see this.

Our Journey, as a summary: