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| Learning Net Comes to South Auckland |
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| Author : Media Release- Massey
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| Created : 25 Aug 2003
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| Last Revision : 25 Aug 2003
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The ‘learning net’ technology initiative is boosting learning and teaching opportunities in South Auckland. The South Auckland Schools New Educational Technologies Initiative or SAS-NET,is a joint project between The Tindall Foundation, Massey University (Albany) and Auckland College of Education. It focuses on ICT (Information Communication Technology) to encourage effective and innovative approaches to learning and teaching.
The learning net helps the participating schools to apply ICT more effectively. The project has been piloted for the past year with a group of North Shore Schools. It has been very successful in these schools and has achieved an alliance between the schools, businesses and tertiary education institutions.
The South Auckland schools working together through SAS-NET are Edmund Hillary Primary,Papakura South Primary, Kelvin Road Primary, Park Estate Primary, Mansell Senior School, McAuley High and De La Salle College.
The project was officially launched this week at Mansell Senior School in Papakura but the schools had already been working on it with the support of Massey University and report tremendous benefits.
“ We are all being upskilled, this is a terrific opportunity we could never have dreamed of creating for ourselves,” says the Principal of Mansell Senior School, Pat Conrad. The Principal of Edmund Hillary Primary, Marama Rewiti-Martin says SAS-NET has brought new skills and confidence to her school and has led overall to a greater joy in learning. Both schools are decile one schools.
SAS-NET projects at the cluster of schools involved include development and extension of a school intranet as a dynamic and interactive medium for teaching and learning; monitoring and improving students’ health practices, development of video editing and broadcasting programmes; and the use by students of digital cameras and software programmes to produce learning resources for their school. Massey University and Auckland College of Education will provide research and teacher support.Project co-ordinator Barbara Dysart says: ”One of the most exciting parts of the project is that students learn through problem solving,
they swap and share information with students at other age levels and they are involved in a project that directly benefits them and their school.”
The co-ordinators of SAS-NET hope to work with the Ministry of Education towards a wider adoption of the programme.
Further information about Learning net on the North Shore, Auckland is available at Massey University
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