Building Digital Foundations: Aligning your Technology with your Curriculum Goals

As technology continues to evolve, its role in education has grown from a rare but helpful addition to an integral part of everyday classroom life. All over the world millions of classrooms now rely on a wide variety of digital tools to bring lessons to life and support teaching and learning. From interactive whiteboards and wireless networks to iPads, Chromebooks, and hands-on learning tools like Bee-bots and Data Recorders, a high-tech classroom and a high-tech school is no longer a vision of the future but a common standard.

At Interm IT, we don’t just deploy, manage, and maintain these technologies—we believe in their power to positively impact the delivery of teaching and learning. Having technology in the classroom is one thing but we feel that when it’s properly utilised it can help unlock creativity, increase engagement, and personalise lessons in ways that when I was young seemed unfathomable.

This year, as many schools take advantage of the school holidays to roll out new devices or update existing hardware—whether that’s ChromeOS, Windows, or iOS—it presents us with an opportunity to not only make your network smoother, smarter and more secure but it’s an opportunity to use that hardware to transform what having technology in the classroom means.

That’s where your Interm IT consultant can help. 

Over the last few years, we’ve worked closely with several of our supported schools to review and align software deployments with their chosen computing curriculum.  We’ve used our understanding of these technologies and the experience of computing leads and teaching staff to ensure that every app, program and resource is not only prepared and ready to go on Day 1 but also supports countless different subjects in a way that’s intuitive, accessible and safe.

Regardless of whether you follow your county’s curriculum structure or something more bespoke, we can deploy your new network in a way that aligns with your curriculum, your goals and your vision for what a technology saturated classroom looks like.

Imagine teaching coding fundamentals with Scratch on Chromebooks or introducing young budding scientists to real-world data analysis using the Arduino Science Journal on Microsoft Intune managed iPads. Deploying these tools removes the guess work and the worry in lesson preparation and makes these kinds of experiences not only easy and fun but incredibly impactful.

Talk to your Interm IT consultant about our curriculum support options and see how we can work together to use your new golden images as a golden opportunity to revolutionise how you use technology at your school.

Article written by Adam J. Hollis