TECHNOLOGY is being introduced to students at an increasing rate and Bowen Public School is among the Orange schools to get on board the teaching revolution.
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The school introduced Chrome books, small laptops, to three of its classes about a term and a half ago.
Class 3/4 C teacher Meaghan Clyde said the school had about 90 Chrome books to be used by students from year 3 to 6 and other classes had iPads to use.
Jayden Mussacred, 10, is among Mrs Clyde’s students to take to the Chrome books and has enjoyed using it so much in class he is hoping to get one for Christmas.
“These are awesome, the best thing I like to do is Kahoots. It’s a game that we have to do quizzes,” he said.
“You get points if you get the questions right, if you get them wrong you don’t get points and the person with the most Kahoots! wins.”
Mrs Clyde said her students were quick to take to using the Chrome books and it had added to what they were already doing.
“They are an HP [laptop] but they run Google Chrome,” she said.
“They run really quickly, they don’t have much software one them, they are cloud based and they run Google apps. We’ve basically integrated them into everything we do, it doesn’t replace what we did in the classroom, it complements what they do and extends it.”
Mrs Clyde said the Chrome Books were used for science, maths, literacy and technology, but students still did writing tasks in notebooks.
“It’s probably the same as what it was but we can access the Chrome Books in the classroom rather than have to go to the computer room to type,” she said.
As well as the recent addition of the Chrome books, Mrs Clyde said classrooms also had smartboards in place of whiteboards or chalkboards and her class had a smart TV, which was a step up from a smartboard.
She said the touch sensitive screen could be moved around so it could be used vertically or flat like a table.
tanya.marschke@fairfaxmedia.com.au
