A Contemporary Learning Environment
At Munich International School we believe a contemporary learning environment, one that parallels many of the technology-enabled experiences available to students and staff outside schools, by nature, in 2010, includes one-to-one access to portable technology devices.
We also believe firmly in the value of the opportunities for redefined learning that such technology access provides our students and staff to be the priority focus of our work together. The technology is available for the service of a greater aim and, for us, that aim centres around enabling our students to engage in transformative learning experiences, experiences that would not be available without one-to-one access to an appropriate suite of technologies. We also know that such transformations do not occur by accident or without parallel focus by our faculty on the developing knowledge of twenty-first century learning. To this end, we bring these conversations together through the teams and structures we build as we review, incorporate and evaluate new technologies hand-in-hand with redefined teaching and learning initiatives.
We began the journey to provide this innovative learning environment in the Fall of 2005. We share here our stories in the hope of contributing to the experience of other schools in their own journeys as well for our broader community, so that our shared understanding and expectations are transparent.