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The Broader Professional Context - Reflective Post Week 27

Contemporary trend in New Zealand or internationally Reflecting on the current trends occurring at the present one that it highlighted for me as being the most relevant to my current practice is the development of the digital platform in classrooms.  This has been a major introduction for our school in the last 3 years and the pace in which this has happened is phenomenal. As the leader of the hub which has been seen as being the leaders in this initiative there has been a great deal of outside pressure. I have taken over the leadership role this year from the teacher who was instrumental in facilitating the introduction of 1:1 devices and I feel it is my responsibility to ensure that all her hard work is not going to be for nothing. Our schools expectation is that all students will be on 1:1 devices within the next 3 years, whether it be on chrome books (which are currently 1:1 for all students Year 5-8) or ipads for our juniors. Are we as a school ready for it? Tea...