At Foxwell State Secondary College we take great pride in our ability to leverage digital pedagogies, allowing for excellence in educational outcomes.

Our school’s pedagogy and curriculum is specifically designed with iPad placed as the central learning tool for both students and teachers. Teachers use them as an environment to facilitate engagement in the learning process. 

We have a number of digital learning platforms that are already established as normal school practice for both teachers and students. The following information will outline for parents and carers the purpose of each of these platforms.

Parents and carers can assist with digital learning by ensuring that students have downloaded on to their devices each of these apps and that they know and have recorded their username and password.     

Seesaw 

At Foxwell State Secondary College, Seesaw is our main platform for digital pedagogy. Seesaw is a powerful classroom app that allows for meaningful student engagement. It allows teachers, students and parents/carers the ability to interact in an online environment where teachers can deliver curriculum activities for students and provide feedback on work completed. Parents/carers are able to view this work and also interact with their students electronically via the platform.    

Students are members of Seesaw classrooms for the following subjects:  

SharePoint 

At Foxwell State Secondary College, we use the SharePoint application to communicate daily notices and share digital resources with students. It is an expectation that students check SharePoint at least once per day to read daily notices and keep up to date with school wide communications.   

SharePoint can be accessed as a webpage, or as a downloaded application on both student and parent/carer devices. Once downloaded a student’s school email address is required for log in.     

Education Perfect 

Education Perfect is a rich library of interactive, motivating and engaging activities directly aligned with the Australian Curriculum. Content in Education Perfect is carefully scaffolded to allow all students to experience success, while providing for higher order thinking and independent learning.   

In Education Perfect, teachers curate and customise learning activities to meet the needs of every learner in their classroom. Student responses to activities provide teachers detailed insights in to student progress, allowing them to make informed decisions to tailor their student’s learning need.   

Activities in Education Perfect are known as ‘assessments'. These activities do not contribute to summative report card results, rather are tools for assessing student progress to allow teachers to support the individual needs of each student.    

ClickView 

Through ClickView, teachers can curate educational videos from around the world and also produce their own video material. Teachers can create time coded video content, where students are prompted to complete activities at different intervals throughout the stream.    

Notability

Notability transforms iPads in to digital notebooks for students where they can record their learning in both typed and handwritten form. Notability provides students the opportunity to:

• Type, write and sketch on digital paper  
• Type, write and sketch on imported documents such as worksheets  
• Add images and shapes  
• Organise learning into content or subjects areas