Although we value the amazing contribution that technology makes to our teaching and learning at Provo Primary, today as part of our Healthy Tech/Life Balance Week, we are having an ‘Unplugged’ Day.
We will be busy learning as usual – just without all of the technological support that we are accustomed to. It will probably not be much of an impact to our younger students, where real-life hands-on play-based learning dominates and technology use is much less a part of their day, but I am sure it will be a little more noticeable higher up in the school, where projectors and whiteboards, laptops and tablets play an integral role, alongside hands-on learning experiences. How will our teachers feel its impact?
How will it impact the administrative running of the school…?!? No computers or emails…bear with us as we find out! Just to note – this post was written yesterday and was scheduled to publish today without human interaction!
Our ‘Unplugged’ day invites us to consider our daily tech use in school. During the day, classes will be brainstorming the many positive contributions technology makes to our lives and learning, and also explore the possible impact of too much. We will think about how to make good choices around using technology and how to make sure it’s not going to take the place of all the other good things going on around us.