Department for Education Digital Strategy

Help us develop a new education digital strategy to enhance teaching and learning and improve outcomes in our preschools, schools and corporate areas.

What's being decided?

As part of our plan to build world-class education in South Australia, the Department for Education is developing a new digital strategy. It will set a clear vision for using digital technology across our education system, now and into the future.

The digital strategy will focus on 4 key themes:

  • improving and enhancing teaching and learning
  • a productive workplace
  • effective data use
  • alignment to broader government opportunities.

It will also aim to continue to improve digital connections in every classroom across South Australia, providing real and immediate outcomes for children and young people.

Your experiences of digital technology and education are important. Your feedback will help us understand more about people’s use and perceptions of digital technology in our public education system.

We want to know more about how well our system uses digital technology, and where we could make improvements.


Background

Over the last 3 years, the Department for Education has focussed heavily on implementing modern ICT infrastructure: connecting schools and preschools to high-speed internet, upgrading devices and software and investing in new systems and processes.

Now it’s time to use that technology for world-class teaching and learning.

In 2021, we will design a new digital strategy that will leverage our new infrastructure to enhance teaching and learning and improve outcomes in our preschools, schools and corporate areas.

How can your input influence the decision?

Your experiences of digital technology and education are important. Your feedback will help us understand how well our system uses digital technology and where we can improve. This will ultimately help us decide what reforms we should pursue as part of the new digital strategy.

Get involved

Read the New Digital Strategy page on the Department for Education website.

Have your say by:

What are the next steps?

The survey and YourSAy consultation forms part of a range of consultation activities will undertake over the coming months with people connected with our education system. We will analyse the results of these consultation activities to help inform the new digital strategy.

Help us develop a new education digital strategy to enhance teaching and learning and improve outcomes in our preschools, schools and corporate areas.

What's being decided?

As part of our plan to build world-class education in South Australia, the Department for Education is developing a new digital strategy. It will set a clear vision for using digital technology across our education system, now and into the future.

The digital strategy will focus on 4 key themes:

  • improving and enhancing teaching and learning
  • a productive workplace
  • effective data use
  • alignment to broader government opportunities.

It will also aim to continue to improve digital connections in every classroom across South Australia, providing real and immediate outcomes for children and young people.

Your experiences of digital technology and education are important. Your feedback will help us understand more about people’s use and perceptions of digital technology in our public education system.

We want to know more about how well our system uses digital technology, and where we could make improvements.


Background

Over the last 3 years, the Department for Education has focussed heavily on implementing modern ICT infrastructure: connecting schools and preschools to high-speed internet, upgrading devices and software and investing in new systems and processes.

Now it’s time to use that technology for world-class teaching and learning.

In 2021, we will design a new digital strategy that will leverage our new infrastructure to enhance teaching and learning and improve outcomes in our preschools, schools and corporate areas.

How can your input influence the decision?

Your experiences of digital technology and education are important. Your feedback will help us understand how well our system uses digital technology and where we can improve. This will ultimately help us decide what reforms we should pursue as part of the new digital strategy.

Get involved

Read the New Digital Strategy page on the Department for Education website.

Have your say by:

What are the next steps?

The survey and YourSAy consultation forms part of a range of consultation activities will undertake over the coming months with people connected with our education system. We will analyse the results of these consultation activities to help inform the new digital strategy.

Consultation has concluded

  • Department for Education Digital Strategy released

    As part of our plan to build world-class education in South Australia, our new Digital Strategy 2022 to 2025 outlines the department’s digital approach over the coming years.

    The digital strategy outlines:

    • how we can use digital technology to enable and empower schools and preschools to deliver world-class education
    • how we can help children and students to thrive in a digital world.

    The digital strategy focuses on 5 key areas to help enable learning and growth for every child, in every class, in every school and preschool.

    We are going to:

    • strengthen our digital foundations
    • build our capability
    • maximise the benefits of digital technologies for teaching and learning
    • streamline and modernise our operations
    • mobilise ICT support where it is needed.

    The strategy is a roadmap to improve our approach to digital across the system and to position our students for the future.

    Consultation process

    The strategy has been designed for and by school leaders, teachers and educators, students, parents and carers, and our corporate staff.

    More than 2000 staff, parents and community members were involved in the consultation process through:

    • workshops
    • state-wide survey
    • case studies
    • interviews and discussions.

    From the consultation, key themes emerged which informed the new digital strategy.

    These key themes were:

    • ensuring we have the right digital foundations
    • building strategic, leadership and people capability
    • digital adoption, integration and innovation for teaching and learning
    • appropriate ICT support in schools
    • workplace modernisation for business operations
    • data and platforms.