Powerful Learning: It’s a Digital Thing

Social opportunities

The communities are available from breakfast to bedtime – on school and home computers and mobile devices, so it’s non-stop learning for children at school and at home. Children from different backgrounds and cultures keep in touch with friends, share interests and help each other.

Creative Learning

In the communities children learn by experience. Here are just a few of the things they can do in their safe personal online learning spaces:

• Communicate
• • Email – build friendships around the world
  • Forums – discuss global issues, current affairs, wildlife, music, children’s concerns and their school work
• Create
  • Home Pages – build secure personal websites on hobbies & school work (with their own words, images and sounds and content from the huge Media Library)
  • Project Pages – create pages dedicated to school projects
• Collaborate & contribute
• • Webrings – join shared interest groups
  • Clubs – read and write for online magazines
  • School Pages – contribute to collaborative school projects
  • Student Voice – share their thoughts in research projects
  • Events – meet famous authors and people from other countries

Personalised Learning

The children join learning projects and events such as: a discussion on global issues in the One World Club; a writing club with a popular author; a Hot Seat with an Olympic hopeful athlete, an artist or an astronomer; an interview with Anne Frank or Tutankhamun or a Maths fun day. There’s something for every child as they follow their own interests and work at their own pace and level.

And their achievements and contribution to the community are recognised and rewarded with the STAR Awards challenges, through which they learn a huge range of ICT skills. Web Safety and Literacy, develop, social skills and global Citizenship.