[Year 12 SofDev] School Apps for students [Slightly OT]

[Travis Parker]

Dear All,

 

Probably slightly off topic for a Year 12 Software Development forum,
but pertinent to software developers so I thought this would be where to
bring it up....

 

I was at my school's ICT Committee meeting last night and the Principal
has asked me to research apps targeted at schools. The vision he is
looking at is that in 3 years we won't have textbooks or paper, but each
student will have their own personal web enabled device (In whatever
incarnation they will be by then). He wants us to look into
getting/creating a "School App" that is part of the students' fees at
the start of each year, and once installed onto their device they will
log into that each class and have their electronic textbook, class
resources, tasks etc all on there in the one place. This is as opposed
to buying textbooks and going to multiple places to access resources as
is currently the custom.

 

I have already thought that it would need to run on multiple platforms
(Android, Windows, etc) and also we currently we use a moodle as our CMS
so would have to change completely because I'm not sure we could "sell"
students a version of that as it's open source so we'd probably have to
start from scratch.

 

Has anyone looked into this previously or had any thoughts on it? I told
him I'd look to the best and brightest IT teachers in Australia so
please respond if you have any ideas!

 

Many thanks

 

Trav

 

 

Travis Parker

Head of ICT

Beaconhills College Pakenham

( 03 5945 3016

 

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