Hauturu+M5

The biggest shift we have made at Hauturu School is realising the importance of the use of ICT for educational purposes as a whole school community. We now use wikispaces, BlogSpot and online e-learning programmes suitable and relevant to individual student learning. Our Inquiry units now integrate the use of ICT within planning and are levelled across the school. Students are becoming more capable and reflective learners as they use communicative online tools to report to the wider world on their learning. We are currently investigating lease to buy options or (BYOD) for families in our school community so that every child at our school has an ICT tool to use for reading, researching and reporting. hauturumokomoko@wikispaces.com hauturupohutukawa@wikispaces.com hauturukereru@wikispaces.com [|hauturu1.blogspot.com] [|hauturu2.blogspot.com] [|hauturu3.blogspot.com] The ICT PD and cluster meetings have been invaluable for sharing ideas and reflecting what works and what doesn’t and next step initiatives for our school. The U-Learn conference and L@S have been a valuable resource and PD on our development and understanding of the use and implementation of new tools and programmes available and to find out what is working in the world community regarding ICT, teacher and student learning, facilitating ICT within your school and using these as effectively as we can. It has been hard in a small, rural, low decile school like ours to continuously update and up skill our school community with the tools and the experts we need to sustain GOOD EFFECTIVE Learning due to:
 * 1)  Lack of funding
 * 2)  Lack of time
 * 3)  Lack of access to technology hardware
 * 4)  Resistance