Technology-enabled learning is used at SWO to engage students in the digital world and enhance blended learning. Students use tools like wikis, podcasts, Skype, YouTube, and Twitter to support personalized, collaborative, inquiry-based learning both individually and together in physical and digital spaces. SWO is a BYOD school where students can bring their own devices for instructional use with parent permission, and they are responsible for caring for their own devices. When using devices in class, students must focus on learning and not text or take calls during instructional time except for emergencies.

1. Tech Enabled Learning @ SWO

2. ● engages us in the digital world
● enhances how we learn in a blended way
Power tools that influence how we learn!
What tools do we use here?
Technology-Enabled Learning

3. A game changer here at @SWO_HWDSB
WHY?

4. Your life is a blend.
How you choose to contribute matters.

6. At SWO, we learn in many ways and focus on:
personalized, collaborative inquiry-based learning
blended learning which means mixing up how we
learn individually and together face-to-face and
online
using technology to enhance how we learn with and
from others in our physical and digital world

7. SWO is a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
school.
With parent permission, you may bring your own device to
school for learning during instructional time.
If you choose to bring your own devices, you are responsible for
the care and well-being of the device. The school is not
responsible for lost, stolen or damaged devices.

8. Apps
&
Access

9. When accessing a device in class, you are to
remain focussed on learning!
Do not text nor take phone calls during instructional time.
Parents are only to text or call you before school, during
nutrition breaks or after school.
If there is an emergency or illness, you are to report to the
office with the permission of your teacher to call home.

12. PLUS MORE: Wikis, Podcasts, Skype, YouTube, Twitter & Websites
POWER TOOLS FOR SCHOOL & everyday life!
Bookmark this site: http://home.hwdsb.on.ca/students.php

13. Media Consent Form
● protecting your personal information
● helping you to positively shape you “digital footprint”
NEED YOUR PARENT / CAREGIVER CONSENT:
● to allow you to fully participate online in ways deemed age
appropriate by teachers and connected to your learning and
accomplishments.
MAY INCLUDE: images/videos/audio recordings, written and creative work, and
maybe your name appearing online beyond HWDSB schools, (i.e., publicly visible to
the community or discoverable on the World

15. ● think before you
connect and share
anything
● say meaningful and
respectful things online
● give credit to the
sources of information

16. Access to power tools, you
have, hmm?
For good, use these tools.

18. Be social.
That’s how we humans learn.
You have the power to make choices
everyday in how to connect, contribute,
create and collaborate online with others!
THIS IS GOOD NEWS!