Greenfield Community School & Technology

GCS Collaboration Room

Technology at Greenfield Community School

As a 21st

Century Educational Institution GCS has full school Wi-Fi connectivity. We acknowledge that

smartphones, iPads, Tablets and laptops are a factual component in the lives of our students and we

embrace openly and actively the exploratory use of these tools for education.

At GCS we promote students to bring their own devices and have expanded the curriculum to include

BYOD driven topics. We impose a strict BYOD Acceptable Use Policy to protect the school and most

importantly our students.

We want students to be able to use engaging technologies in a collaborative, inquiry based format

through a personalised learning environment where teachers are willing and able to use technology to

facilitate and assist learners in transforming knowledge and skills into real life products, scenarios and

solutions. By doing so, we equip students from a wide range of nationalities, cultures and religions for

the demands and opportunities of a global twenty-first century society by offering a relevant,

differentiated and rigorous curriculum in a stimulating and dynamic learning environment.

Innovative teaching and Learning Practices that take place in the school

ALL PYP teachers in ALL subjects as well as SEN and EAL use iPads as a teaching and learning tool,this

facilitates a technology rich learning environment that has led to better communication, makes

instruction more efficient and effective, enhances thinking and learning skills and develops 21st

century

skills to life in a global society.

iPads have truly transformed the way we teach and learn at GCS. Due to the introduction of mobile

devices we found that traditional classroom settings restricted student creativity and their ability to

collaborate effectively. We have therefore remodelled of one of the Computer Labs and named it the

Collaboratio Roo , where students are able to mirror their iPads using Wi-Fi and Apple TV. The room

allows students to work collaboratively on projects using productivity apps such as iMovie’s,iBook

Author and more. The room is multifunctional and is used to facilitate and used for all subjects where

the possibility of IT is present, for instance we conduct Skype lessons, deliver Presentations, iPad

lessons, Newsroom and more.

Students are engaged more than ever and are creating, communicating, reflecting, developing the ability

for in depth analysis, synthesis and validating.

Amun Qureshi

Director of Education Technology

Greenfield Community School

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