Learning Vision
Learning at St. John’s College is engaging and personalised. Young men at St. John’s College develop competencies to enable them to become:
* confident,
* self-directed,
* collaborative learners through the effective use of ICT, and
* ethical and responsible users of ICT.
What is the “D” in BYOD?
For the purposes of BYOD, the “D” stands for any technology that is a privately owned personal, portable computing device which is wireless capable. This includes laptops, netbooks and tablets. A mobile phone, on it’s own, is not considered a suitable device for learning.
Minimum device specifications:
Operating system: Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android
Screen size: At least 11 inches
Battery life: 5 hours (continuous use)
Wireless capable 802.11 n/ac
Keyboard: external (Recommended)
Memory (RAM): 4 GB
Internal storage: 64 GB
In the case of tablets we recommend that the student have an external keyboard that can connect to the tablet.
Recommended Device
- Operating system: Windows 10 or MacOS
- Touch screen capable – This allows students to use a stylus to write on their screens allowing them to annotate notes and diagrams easily.
- Screen size: 11 inches to 15 inches
- Battery life: 6 hours (continuous use).
- Keyboard: External keyboard
- Memory (RAM): 4 GB
- internal storage: 128GB
St. John’s College uses Microsoft Office 365, which is free for schools. This enables all our students to download the Office suite of programs onto their device for FREE. Students are able to download the software to a maximum of 5 devices.
Instructions for downloading Office Apps to your laptop
The school has a Windows server and uses Microsoft 365. We therefore recommend Windows based devices or Apple laptops/tablets (MacOS). We do not recommend Chrome Books, but if a student has a Chrome Book, it must be one that can download and run the Android version of the Office Apps. The Office Mobile Apps can be installed through the Google Play Store. Chrome Books will run on our network, but if students cannot download the Office apps, they will only have access to the online apps which have less functionality.
All devices must have a protective carry case to minimize the risk of damage.