Vision
All students will be prepared and motivated to meet the challenges of a dynamic global society in which they collaborate, contribute, and flourish through universal access to people, information and ideas.
8 Criteria for Success:
- Technology is seamlessly embedded into the fabric of the student learning experience.
- All educators will use 21st century skills and knowledge to effectively embed educational technology as necessary to enable students to achieve the HKIS student learning results.
- HKIS will improve and maintain a user-focused technology infrastructure that is reliable, supported and relevant to today
- All students and staff will have ubiquitous access to the tools of technology and information for learning
- A commitment to professional development is critical to the successful use of technology. It will be focused towards improving the learning process and providing relevance to the student’s world
- Standards will exist to enable consistency in the provisioning of the educational process and facilities.
- Innovative use of technology will be encouraged and supported
- Use of technology will be personalized to the extent possible, in order to address different learning styles/needs and rates of learning
Vision for Learning
A vision for 21st century learning is a vision for lifelong learning, developing in students the capacity to locate, consume, analyze and evaluate information then to create knowledge. To be literate in the 21st century is no longer simply the ability to be able to read and write. Rather it must also include technological fluency and dispositional attributes such as creativity, teamwork, systems thinking, responsibility, self assessment and inquiry. We should expect students not only to master these skills but to apply and demonstrate them through authentic and engaging activities and assessments.
For an introduction to the HKIS Technology Plan please see the following video (first released Nov 2008)
You can download the entire plan as PDF below:
