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St. Therese Catholic Primary School in Sydney is using iPads to smoothly switch to distance learning as the Covid-19 pandemic led to a nationwide lockdown in Australia.
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In a suburb of Sydney in a socioeconomically depressed area, an elementary school has continued to build its one-to-one iPad initiative to find innovative ways to engage each of its students during the global pandemic and beyond, Apple writes on its website .
According to this, the students at this school come from 50 different cultures, 73 percent of whom do not have English as their mother tongue, and two thirds of them speak English as a second language. The Catholic primary school used the iPad in order to be able to offer competent lessons despite these circumstances.
With the Apple tablets, the students have the freedom to explore topics themselves and to express their ideas in the best possible way. This applies to writing as well as sound reports, a video presentation or an animated presentation of the topic. Of course, the iOS-specific Apple apps such as Keynote, iMovie, Pages, Text-to-Speech and others are also popular.
Lockdown has consequences
The consistent implementation of this type of teaching was above all a consequence of the nationwide lockdown in Australia, according to the headmistress Michelle McKinnon. The use of the iPad has also promoted inclusion, equality and a change in work culture. Of course, the teachers also use the iPad and have completed a professional, free learning program at Apple (Apple Teacher).
While there is the possibility of remote learning or teaching, the pupils, back in school, can show the teachers their digital homework results or self-made presentations.
In addition, there is the interactive book “Welcome to Kindergarten” in
Apple Books
, which combines video tours, photos, audio messages and augmented reality (AR) to help new students and parents become familiar with the school. With the “3D Bubble Experience”, arriving students and their families could even explore a real kindergarten classroom virtually on the iPad or iPhone using AR.
We reported here on a comparable initiative in this country in Marburg, where a comprehensive school was also equipped with iPads across the board.
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