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[Stuart:] My name is Stuart Kelly. I'm Deputy
Principal. My official role is Deputy Principal in charge of Assessment and
Reporting but I also have oversight of what we call Aorere Digital which is our
Digital Transformation Program. [Greg:] I'm Greg Pierce, Principal at Aorere College. This is my
third of being principal here. [Stuart:] We're a multicultural school and we've
got highly aspirational staff and highly aspirational students. It's basically
been the last two years. We had very little Wi-Fi and a group of us a few
years ago got frustrated with the limited opportunities being offered to
our students. Over the last two years we've got now what we
call Wi-Fi beyond the gate. We've spent a significant amount of money and time to
upgrading teacher pedagogy and capabilities, not to have digital
learning, but to just avail to our students the ability to be global and
local learners so they are part of the wider world without having to give up
their their cultural preferences and their cultural strengths.
[Sandra:] I'm Sandra Bisman. I'm the Business Manager of Aorere College. I was getting hammered to
spend lots of money on on equipment and at the time our Wi-Fi wasn't good. So I
wasn't prepared to put more equipment into the school when I was going to get
more emails. That was when we started the journey really. We started with the
Wi-Fi and from then it's just grown. So we possibly spent a lot of money in that
first year, well we did spend a lot of money (chuckles) but, at least when we did get the equipment it
worked. It just worked. [Stuart:] We were looking at an
education platform that our students could access that was world-class and
ideally low-cost or free. So, at the end of 2015 we had our website patched which
enabled us to be a Google Apps for Education accredited institution. That
meant we had G-Suite for Education. We had the devices, we had the
infrastructure but we wanted to make sure that our teachers weren't just at ease
with the G-Suite or Google for Education, but that they were highly efficient
practitioners. We were asked host New Zealand's largest Google Summit.
We're very fortunate that we were able to host about five hundred teachers here a few months ago
and a number of our teachers from our school took up that opportunity. It's
enabled our teachers to access absolutely current world-class education
platforms. They are just tools and we're now at the stage for a lot of our
teachers are highly proficient and are now going into third-party apps. It's
actually been quite transformative. What's really impressive is that the
community is increasingly taking ownership of the the Digital Transformation
we have 13 year old students building games, creating websites, creating Makey
Makey projects and they
are our best advertisers. [Greg:] In 2015 we
encouraged students to bring along devices that would aid in their learning, and
gradually over the last couple of years we've refined that to recommend a
Chromebook as as the device of choice for our students. One of our biggest
challenges is upskilling staff to the level of the students. But in saying
that, a lot of the students have very limited basic use of the technology and
I think our key role as educators is to improve that base, and the ways in which students
can use technology. During the last three years since since I've become a
Principal at Aorere College, New Era is the company that we have invested
most heavily in to work alongside us. Obviously as Educators, we are technically
reliant on those businesses which have the specific expertise, and from my
experiences I've found New Era to be completely transparent, objective and
really supportive of where we are at as a school, and where we want to go. So the
result is that we've invested a lot of money providing a world-class site for
students to access the New Zealand curriculum, and increase their chances
of success when they leave Aorere
College. [Stuart:] Fundamentally the Education
Transformation here isn't about better grades or better learning. It's a social
justice issue. It's about literally not lifting
academic performance. It's about lifting a community.




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