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Bring Your Own Device

Why BYOD – Bring Your Own Device?

To provide more access to digital technologies that contribute to raising student achievement by enabling students to be:

  • effective users of communication tools

  • active seekers, users and creators of knowledge

  • independent, resourceful and enterprising

  • future focused

  • critical thinkers

  • able to work collaboratively

  • able to share work from home to school and with their teachers

We encourage all students to bring their own device to support their learning. Our focus will be on helping all Year 9–13 students to make extensive use of these digital devices and technologies in their courses. We understand that some students may not have a device, which is why we have already purchased sets of laptops to ensure that no student is left out.

What is a digital device?
It is a personal laptop, Netbook, Chromebook, Android Tablet, or an iPad. As a school, we don’t believe that mandating a particular device is necessary, and because individual student needs differ, this can be a complex question to answer. We have, however, put together some suggested minimum specifications.

Specifications & Information