Type: Policy
Classification: Operational
Policy Number: SCS2024021
Released: 1 May 2024
Review Date: 1 May 2026
Rescinds/Replaces: TL201806-1.0

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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), means that students bring to school personally owned devices for the purpose of learning.

The access to devices that a BYOD program provides, will assist students in developing digitalliteracy, fluency and citizenship while preparing them for the high-tech world in which they will live, learn and work. It will have the potential to empower students by giving them a voice in the
decision making process of how they use technology in their own learning.

It will also allow teachers to continue to employ technology in the classroom while building on the experiences gained in the previously government-supported Digital Education Revolution (DER) model (2008).

This policy applies to all SCS staff, students and parents/carers. In this policy staff means all employees of SCS, members of religious orders engaged in schools, volunteers, trainees, interns and labour hire employees.

The following principles guide how this policy will operate in practice:

3.1 Equity and access to technology should be provided for all SCS students.

3.2 SCS schools will endeavor to provide a safe and secure online environment for all learning activities.

3.3 The integration of ICT is to support and enhance contemporary, authentic learning in SCS schools.

3.4 No students should be disadvantaged by a local community’s decision to move to a BYOD model.

• Schools will, through consultation with their communities, allow students to bring personally owned digital devices to school for the purposes of learning.
• Students can use a BYO Device only with the knowledge and written approval of their parent or caregiver. The return of the Student Acceptable Use of Technology Agreement constitutes such knowledge and approval.
• Prior to implementing …