At Mitford, our staff continually works toward creating an engaging learning environment for all our students. In an ever changing cultural, economic, political and educational landscape, 21st century skills are critical for the future success of our students.
At Mitford School our students in Grade 7 & 8 will be working in a One-to-One blended learning environment. RVS has updated our wireless infrastructure and we have worked to create a new collaborative learning commons environments.
Students in Grade 6 will have access to portable laptop carts, ipods, ipads, and educational software technologies. Our staff utilize instructional technologies such as google docs, gmail, moodle, plone (school website), wordpress and blogs on a daily basis. Please feel free to examine RVS Learning Page:
https://www.rockyview.ab.ca/schools/learning
Mitford School is a One-to-One school. All Grade 7 and 8 students are required to participate in the One-to-One. This has been accomplished with the use of a personally owned device or by a school loaner program if that is not possible.
Laptops (Mac or PC) are strongly recommended as devices of choice for this initiative. Netbooks and Tablets may be considered if they meet the following criteria:
Click here to go to our Recommended Software List which contains links for software required under this initiative.
Maintenance, upgrades and troubleshooting are the responsibility of the student for all personally owned devices.
The key goal of this initiative is improving and enhancing student learning through the implementation of ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous computing makes use of a variety of digital devices and resources to engage students in critically analyzing information, creating new knowledge, communicating what they have learned, and choosing tools that are appropriate for a particular task.
At this point in time, standards set for student laptops include existing student equipment. However if specialized functions are required for a specific course, such as video editing and storage, a current student owned computer might not be adequate. In such cases, the school will have available computers for these specific purposes.
Mitford School students will need to be proactive in charging their machines daily at home. We will be supplying power charging sources should students need them.
RVS experts will assist the school to ensure that appropriate infrastructure is in place to support the increase in technology. This endeavour has been has been achieved at other schools in RVS.
Outside of the purchase of a laptop for their student, no additional fees will be charged for this initiative.
The plan for building infrastructure is twofold; the school will invest in expanding the opportunities for students and teachers to be able to operate in an environment that will be inviting to ubiquitous computing. This will require additional hardware and software support. The second infrastructure, and perhaps the most important, is to continually invest in professional learning for teachers. Essentially the transformation of learning and engagement will be continuous. Finally, new interactive online textbooks and assistive technologies are being developed to support student’s unique learning needs. These items will require extensive investment by the school.
Mitford School office and talk with our secretary and she will direct you.
Partnerships of 21st Century Learning Environments
]]>Mitford School is student-centric, and students achieve learning outcomes tailored to their individual strengths, areas for growth, preferences, interests, and learning styles.
In the 2020-21 School Year Mitford School has launched Real Time Reporting which measures student progress based upon standards or outcome-based assessment.
Rocky View Schools is committed to Alberta Education's call for "one inclusive education system where each student is successful." This means students are not physically or socially isolated because of special learning needs caused by such things as giftedness, disability or delay, learning English as an additional language, cultural or social-economic differences. Please feel free to read more on the Action on Inclusion at the link below:
https://www.rockyview.ab.ca/schools/learning