Bring Your Own Device Years 4 / 5 / 6
Pacific Paradise State School highly values the engaging and rich learning experiences that effective technology integration can bring. To ensure an engaged and proportinate learning eperience Prep to Year 3 will use School Supplied iPads, while Years 4, 5, 6 will use Personal devices (BYOD) which will better ready them for the technology requirements in secondary school.
‘Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)' is a new pathway supporting the delivery of 21st century learning. It is a term used to describe a digital device ownership model where students use their personally-owned devices to access the department’s information and communication (ICT) network.
The promotion and advancement of Bring Your Own Laptop aligns with worldwide educational trends to ensure today's learners are more adept at communication, creating, collaborating and critically thinking in a technology driven world.
Access to technology through a Bring Your Own Laptop program has changed how we communicate, think and process information.
Digital technologies can maximize learning opportunities and support learning that is connected, collaborative and global. Children at Pacific Paradise will learn how to engage with the world around them and acquire digital skills to participate in life and work beyond school, this includes:
- Access to quality resources
- Learn anytime, anywhere
- Self-directed learning
- Connecting and collaborating
- Developing digital skills
- Accessing & reviewing in real-time
- Connecting families to learning
- Crossing educational divides
Think for a moment of the world in which we live and consider the statistics:
- People are creating 2000 new websites every hour.
- Uploading 35 hours of video every minute.
- Watching 2 billion YouTube videos every day.
- Communicating with people thousands of kilometres away as if they were in the same roo.
- They consume, produce and communicate information in previously unimaginable ways.
- As educators we are building 21st century skills, using enabling technologies and personalising learning to engage students in diverse and creative ways.
School Supplied iPads Years Prep / 1 / 2 / 3
iPads in Prep, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 are enablers, engagers and enhancers. A student learning how to take photos, record video.
A student who is using a story creator to author their own story to share with others is engaged in manipulating English, building vocabulary and understanding the purpose of literature.
A student who can explain what they have been learning, air-drop examples of their work and access them to show what they know ‘now’ is enhancing not only the skill on display but also understanding deeply about the quality of their learning.
You can fid further informantion in the 
BYOD Charter 2025.pdf