EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

ENKA’s Computer Education and Educational Technologies Department aims to provide students with the communication technology skills they will need throughout their education and business life and enable them to produce creative and effective digital solutions for the problems and needs they encounter. Our primary goal is to ensure that our students use technology responsibly to research, learn, and communicate as global citizens, and to be informed about the impact technology has had in the 21st century.

We care that our students receive algorithmic thinking and technology education beginning in Pre-School. Below you can find our work on Computer Education at all levels at ENKA Schools.

Any tools used must have an effective and enduring learning outcome. This is the key aim of educational technology. All in-school training designed for teachers is planned and provided by the ENKA Schools’ Educational Technology department. The Educational Technology curriculum is prepared in line with ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) standards and takes into account the knowledge and skills that our students should achieve through levels K-12. Such technology skills are effectively integrated into the curriculum in cooperation with the Educational Technology department and subject teachers.

In Pre-School,

Students begin to receive coding education in cognitive development, planning work, establishing situational relationships and generating new ideas. They also improve their problem-solving skills while dealing with the problems they encounter in coding activities. Their cognitive development in this area enables them to be more successful in coding at later ages. Determining the necessary actions to achieve a certain goal and implementing these actions sequentially is a phenomenon underlying the ability to think algorithmically. With our coding lessons, our students improve their algorithmic thinking skills. 

In Primary School,

We implement the IB Primary Years Program. The ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) course focuses on digital citizenship and algorithmic thinking and coding and provides basic information technology skills. Attention is paid to the development of digital products prepared in the student’s studies during their Primary School years in accordance with the design principles and the use of tools in accordance with their purpose. Information finding, organizing, and cite sourcing are developed while conducting research, with attention paid to academic honesty and sourcing information from reliable sources. Our students are supported to collaborate in online environments. Students are taught good digital citizenry and know how to behave accordingly.  In addition, activities are conducted with both block-based coding platforms and robotic tools for the further development of algorithmic thinking and coding skills. The curriculum is developed in accordance with the students’  grade level with increasing complexity in each successive year.

Middle School,

Students begin to develop projects using the design circle within the scope of MYP Design course. They use basic design principles, algorithmic thinking, and problem solving skills in these projects. While continuing block-based coding projects, this course provides the infrastructure for the text-based coding training and projects students will receive in the future. In the following years, students follow the stages of the design circle and produce solutions to today’s problems in 3D product designs and virtual worlds. Students develop these projects in the design-production-presentation triangle and are supported by appropriate presentation skills training.

In High School,

Our students improve their Computer Science skills through projects and activities at different levels. In the Prep Grade, all students take a Computer Science and Design course. Within the scope of this course, they learn basic concepts of Computer Science, the history and working principles of computers, and design and information technology,which they use to find solutions to current problems.

Dear Parents,
Our education systems and teaching methods are evolving to take advantage of the power of mobile devices to inspire student learning and to support their individual learning and critical thinking. The effectiveness of Bring Your Own Apple Device (BYOAD) programs have been globally recognized as one of the most effective ways to benefit from the opportunities offered by mobile devices and technology. BYOAD means students bring their personal computers and tablets to school to use educational apps. By enabling students to use their own devices in class, it helps turn spare time
spent outside of school into an advantage and helps increase cooperation and interaction in the classroom by providing quick access to resources offered from different parts of the world. It can also provide benefits in many areas such as critical thinking, research, and creativity skills.

One of the most important goals of teachers is to prepare students for the future. BYOAD programs enrich this effort. Personalized devices, which are currently used in higher education and business life, also help students with different needs to become lifelong learners. In addition to the negative effects of the pandemic, we can say that students have increased their skills in using the appropriate technology. We can use this advantage to carry it into our classrooms and to raise more responsible and careful individuals in online environments in the coming years.

Please confirm the following virtual learning environments Technology Use Parent Agreement on the system by September 26, 2022 at the latest.

We satisfy our daily needs by using various information technologies resources and tools in constantly digitalizing world. Students use technological devices both at home and at schools for personal and academic needs. We need to teach students the rules of digital world and prepare them to be good digital citizens by teaching them how to use technology in a responsible way. We integrate the nine elements of digital citizenship in the curriculum by focusing on wrong use of technology, and abuse. Access, trade, communication, literacy, ethics, law, rights and responsibilities, security issues are integrated in IT curriculum and in other disciplines’ curriculums with the help of Counseling Department.