Mr Ian Yorston, Director of Digital Strategy at Radley College, spoke to pupils from Year 7 to the Upper Sixth at Burgess Hill School for Girls on Thursday 4th October about technology of the future and what it could mean for the human race, as part of a two day ‘Embracing Technology’ event at the school.
On Friday 5th October, the morning was split into three sessions with students attending two talks and one workshop.
The girls were addressed by Mr Karl Hopwood, an e-safety consultant, who spoke about internet safety, as well as Mr Mark Allen from ‘edintheclouds’, who informed the pupils about the new Google accounts that they would be receiving in the next few weeks.
Mr Allen explained to the girls what they would be able to do with these accounts.
A variety of workshops were also attended by the pupils, run by industry professionals. There were workshops by Greenfoot on computer programming, in which the students programmed their own games in under an hour; creating an ‘App in 1 hour’ using Appshared; producing a website using create.net, as well as a ‘Using ipads’ workshop.
Mrs Nikki Williams, ICT Development Director at Burgess Hill School for Girls said, “Understanding the technological world in which our children are fully immersed is both exciting and challenging for parents.
Burgess Hill School for Girls holds true to its philosophy of enabling the girls to use all new technologies successfully as well as educating them to understand the dangers they can bring.”
“The Embracing Technology event has provided an excellent platform to move forward with our planned developments, particularly in the areas of Google Apps implementation, bring your own device (BYOD) and iPad development.”
Mrs Ann Aughwane, Headmistress at Burgess Hill School for Girls, stated, “The whole idea of this event was to raise awareness about how the world of technology is changing and I am thrilled that this is what we have managed to do.”