Mentone Campus Information Technology
Digital Technologies
The start of 2021 has seen excited and engaged students grace our Digital Technologies and Applied Computing classes here at Mentone campus. Be it in the STEM, Game Design, Multimedia or Programming classes in the middle years, or our senior students commencing their first units of study in Applied Computing, the boys are happy to be present with each other and are eager to learn. It is wonderful to see!
Being a technologies subject, our students learn with technology. At the core of Digital Technologies at Mentone is problem-based learning. Problem-based learning is a way of promoting thinking and engaging our students in their learning. If problems seem relevant and have significance, students are more inclined to direct their efforts into solving them. It is learner-centred, which often happens collaboratively to produce knowledge through solving problems. As students investigate and examine ways to solve a problem, they acquire an understanding of key concepts that are addressed within the learning activity. In essence students are seen as creators of their knowledge. As you enter our Digital Technologies building you will see the words Create, Collaborate and Innovate. In Digital Technologies, it is through creativity and collaboration that we can see innovation. It is our vision that our current students will possess the knowledge and skills to become innovative thinkers who will solve the problems of tomorrow.
Mark Comas
Digital Technologies
Learning Area Leader
Information and Communication Technologies
2020 was very much the year of video conferencing and online/ offsite learning. It’s such a joy to see the arrival of new students back on site in such numbers across both campuses. In terms of ICT there have been some major projects that have been undertaken to continue the digital learning skills acquired during lockdown. These included the summer deployment of some major ICT infrastructure such new wireless systems, switches, servers and projectors. All to support contemporary learning across both campuses. One of the major tasks in January involved the IT and AV teams from Mentone and Bentleigh East working together (along with student eLeaders) to set up and issue over 700 new notebooks. Seen in the pictures attached there were many happy faces on the students who received them. We look forward to the innovative learning these notebooks will help students engage in during 2021.
David Cracknell
Deputy Principal
ICT and Infrastructure