At King’s College we are dedicated to using digital technologies and our e-learning programme to make the learning experience more student-centred, more dynamic, and more accessible.
Rooted in tradition and looking towards the future, King’s College prides itself on being an innovator in education. The integration of digital technologies in teaching and learning is an important aspect of this future focus.
To prepare our students for the work environments of the future, it is essential to develop their digital literacy and confidence. We recognise technology as an important platform and enabling tool for creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem-solving, communication and collaboration in our globally-connected classrooms, homes, and offices. Striking out ahead of the game with our Apple laptop programme in 1992, King’s has been at the forefront of e-learning in New Zealand, embarking on the first steps of our 1:1 iPad programme as early as 2011. Here’s some feedback received:
Our digital vision
Our vision is to integrate educational technologies into teaching and learning across the spectrum, affirming the transformative role they can play in our students’ education during their time at the College and beyond.
Incorporating educational technologies means that we also ensure our students can access and make use of real-world, contemporary data, tools, and expert insights. Digital literacy is a valuable practice for our students to learn and apply in their studies and, ultimately, in their careers. Knowing how to access, navigate, and assess information are vital skills in today’s world and ones which our students will continue to use in future study and in the workplace.
Apple Distinguished School
King’s College has been recognised by Apple as a distinguished school for continuous innovation in learning, teaching, and the school environment since 2017. Apple Distinguished Schools are centres of innovation, leadership, and educational excellence. They use Apple technology to connect students to the world, fuel creativity, deepen collaboration, and make learning personal.
King’s has been committed to Apple technologies since 1992: now, all students are required to have an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil for their learning. All new domestic students are leased an iPad, Apple Pencil, keyboard, and peripherals.
International students will have different digital requirements which will be communicated to students and families directly.
e-Learning in action
As our teachers use technology to give our students access to new resources, they also equip our students with the skills to enhance their own study and research. EdTech also allows students to work at a pace and style that suits them.
Each student has an iPad which enables our teachers to reach them with a range of learning resources such as course notes, videos, podcasts, revision exercises and online publications, including a number of multi-touch interactive books developed in-house by our subject departments. In the classroom, teachers and students take advantage of the versatility of the iPad to recreate scenarios through AR technologies, such as the example of our Classical Studies classes experiencing the size of Greek vases in their school and classroom environments or sculptures in Art History.