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The idea for the social school app is based on the need for schools to reduce costs wherever possible, but without reducing their educational or communication standards.
Schools are no different than businesses; they need to manage their costs and improve how they can operate and use whatever technologies and tools can help them achieve this.
Parents, and mums, in particular, have to balance the demands of work, children, as well as a busy home and social life; they have to be organised, efficient and juggle tasks and demands on their time.
Anything that can make life a bit easier should be a welcome solution then.
However, many schools are still using old forms of email and printed paper to communicate, and these often get left to one side, forgotten or worse still binned.
A social school though would use social technologies to benefit both the school and mums; making it easy to communicate, provide information that is easy to access and tools that filter out the ‘don’t need to know’ leaving just the ‘need to know’.
The problems that the social school app could help with:
The social school app is based on the idea of an app that seamlessly knits together the important tools and processes as well as provides useful benefits such as alerts.
Social School App – Benefits For Mums
The social school app would enable mums to have easy access to what is going on at the school for their child(ren). The information would be filtered (although mums could view more if they wanted) so that class timetables, events, notices related to them.
A social school app would also:
The social school app provides the school with an efficient way of communicating essential information to parents/mums. Important communications that needed signatures could be used so that a digital signature is required by the app e.g. secured through a pin (prevent children from using mums app!).
Feedback and easy one-stop interface would save and money as well as be more efficient.
The social school app can be built across multiple mobile platforms so that it is a low-cost solution with an easy to use a web-based interface for administrative staff as well as through parents that do not have a mobile app.
The user interface on the phone would be a simple set of choices that would each lead to more detail.
All aspects of the app notifications could be tweaked to suit the person using the app. Overall it represents a step change in how schools could communicate with parents as well as help organisationally.