This document provides an agenda and information for the Schools Innovation Symposium 2018 hosted by Curtin University. The symposium aims to promote collaboration between schools and organizations to drive transformation and innovation in STEM education through learner-centered initiatives. The agenda includes presentations from schools on innovative projects involving areas like AR/VR, drones, esports, design/making, robotics, and more. It also covers breakout sessions for schools to connect with specific projects and opportunities for higher degree research partnerships between teachers and Curtin University to measure STEM program outcomes. The goal is to take teaching practice and students to the forefront of innovation.
Open Education Week: Community College OER Innovation PanelUna Daly
Presentation from Open Education Week, March 13, 2013
From a "Basic Arithmetic MOOC” to an “OER-based General Education Certificate”, learn about the innovation at our two-year public colleges and how to best support institutional adoption of OER at your college.
Website: http://oerconsortium.org
How to participate
Webinar time: 19:00-20:00 GMT/UTC
Webinar language: English
PRIOR TO THE MEETING
Test Your Computer Readiness
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Speakers
Una Daly
MA, Community College Outreach, OpenCourseWare Consortium
Dr. Wm. Preston Davis
Director of Instructional Services, ELI, Northern Virginia Community College
Dr. Donna Gaudet
Math Professor, Scottsdale Community College, Arizona
Quill West
OER Project Director, Tacoma Community College, Washington
Open Education Week: Community College OER Innovation PanelUna Daly
Presentation from Open Education Week, March 13, 2013
From a "Basic Arithmetic MOOC” to an “OER-based General Education Certificate”, learn about the innovation at our two-year public colleges and how to best support institutional adoption of OER at your college.
Website: http://oerconsortium.org
How to participate
Webinar time: 19:00-20:00 GMT/UTC
Webinar language: English
PRIOR TO THE MEETING
Test Your Computer Readiness
Use the following link to login to the webinar: http://www.cccconfer.org/MyConfer/GoToMeetingAnonymousely.aspx?MeetingSeriesID=7f5ae919-67a1-4e98-8cf7-861fc0692b93
When prompted, please enter first and last name, email address, and screen name and click on the Connect button to proceed to webinar.
Speakers
Una Daly
MA, Community College Outreach, OpenCourseWare Consortium
Dr. Wm. Preston Davis
Director of Instructional Services, ELI, Northern Virginia Community College
Dr. Donna Gaudet
Math Professor, Scottsdale Community College, Arizona
Quill West
OER Project Director, Tacoma Community College, Washington
STEM / STEAM - integrating into a master's program Eileen O'Connor
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), often enhanced with the arts (STEAM) has become an important interdisciplinary perspective that can be brought to education, business and community based projects. This presentations highlights the theoretical / academic underpinnings of this approach and provides examples from work done within the SUNY Empire State College's masters program in these areas.
Closing the Gap With STEM Education: Why, What, and How
Participants will learn why there is a growing need for STEM education in the United States, what STEM education is, how STEM education at the middle school level contributes to closing the gap, and how to successfully plan and implement a middle school program.
Ken Verburg Project Lead the Way - Lexington, SC
Skoltech at a glance. What is the new type of university? What do we do? What differs us from traditional universities?
And - what it takes to become a Skoltech student?
Scottish Initiatives in e-Learning - Enhancement-Led Innovationdrdjwalker
Slides from keynote presentation given at UK Heads of e-Learning Forum (HeLF) 10th Anniversary Event. Slides reflection on a cross section of key Scottish e-learning initiatives, and their impact, over the last 10 years.
Participants will learn about our state of the art, cloud-based approach to engineering education and how best to promote 21st century skills such as self-direction, initiative and problem solving within the classroom. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how to integrate engineering into core academic subjects and learn strategies to seamlessly incorporate their academy’s work-based learning plan objectives into their courses. In addition, we will share information regarding Paxton/Patterson's innovative approach to assessment, remediation and Common Core alignment, demonstrating how we improve student learning and accountability while simultaneously providing greater flexibility to instructors.
VELOCITY PREP | Making the STEM Industry ConnectionLonny Stern
Velocity Prep engages high school students to form consulting companies and complete 160 hours of work in a STEM field with the support of college mentors. During the program, delivered as a 4-week PAID summer internship or as a semester-long capstone for academic credit, students address real-world problems for a client, launch and manage a company, meet with STEM employers, work in teams, and present deliverables in a conference room setting. Velocity Prep was created in 2001 in direct response to industry and education leaders’ desire to see high school students gain relevant work experience and exposure to high-demand STEM careers available in Central Texas. Now, we are seeking to scale in the region and across Texas.
The Mission is to become an Open Learning
Platform that is designed to provide Space
awareness Activities Educational Programs
Research Development of Space Exploration
Technologies and to Organize Major Space
industry Events to serve the Global Space
Community. The core objective of SDNx Space
Academy is to Inspire Educate Connect and
Advocate on the behalf of the global space community.
STEM / STEAM - integrating into a master's program Eileen O'Connor
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), often enhanced with the arts (STEAM) has become an important interdisciplinary perspective that can be brought to education, business and community based projects. This presentations highlights the theoretical / academic underpinnings of this approach and provides examples from work done within the SUNY Empire State College's masters program in these areas.
Closing the Gap With STEM Education: Why, What, and How
Participants will learn why there is a growing need for STEM education in the United States, what STEM education is, how STEM education at the middle school level contributes to closing the gap, and how to successfully plan and implement a middle school program.
Ken Verburg Project Lead the Way - Lexington, SC
Skoltech at a glance. What is the new type of university? What do we do? What differs us from traditional universities?
And - what it takes to become a Skoltech student?
Scottish Initiatives in e-Learning - Enhancement-Led Innovationdrdjwalker
Slides from keynote presentation given at UK Heads of e-Learning Forum (HeLF) 10th Anniversary Event. Slides reflection on a cross section of key Scottish e-learning initiatives, and their impact, over the last 10 years.
Participants will learn about our state of the art, cloud-based approach to engineering education and how best to promote 21st century skills such as self-direction, initiative and problem solving within the classroom. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how to integrate engineering into core academic subjects and learn strategies to seamlessly incorporate their academy’s work-based learning plan objectives into their courses. In addition, we will share information regarding Paxton/Patterson's innovative approach to assessment, remediation and Common Core alignment, demonstrating how we improve student learning and accountability while simultaneously providing greater flexibility to instructors.
VELOCITY PREP | Making the STEM Industry ConnectionLonny Stern
Velocity Prep engages high school students to form consulting companies and complete 160 hours of work in a STEM field with the support of college mentors. During the program, delivered as a 4-week PAID summer internship or as a semester-long capstone for academic credit, students address real-world problems for a client, launch and manage a company, meet with STEM employers, work in teams, and present deliverables in a conference room setting. Velocity Prep was created in 2001 in direct response to industry and education leaders’ desire to see high school students gain relevant work experience and exposure to high-demand STEM careers available in Central Texas. Now, we are seeking to scale in the region and across Texas.
The Mission is to become an Open Learning
Platform that is designed to provide Space
awareness Activities Educational Programs
Research Development of Space Exploration
Technologies and to Organize Major Space
industry Events to serve the Global Space
Community. The core objective of SDNx Space
Academy is to Inspire Educate Connect and
Advocate on the behalf of the global space community.
Student-directed engagement in community-linked STEM integration through coll...Kim Flintoff
Prepared for the Deakin STEM Education Conference 2021.
This paper will be co-authored by a team of participating Year 10 students who are working on a challenge-based learning project in their TIDES (Technology Innovation Design Enterprise Sustainability) class at Peter Carnley Anglican Community School.
They are considering a problem derived from the theme of National Science Week 2021 (Food: Different by Design). The focus on issues relating to Food Security has enabled them to create a body of work that supports deep engagement and a scope of learning that exceeds most traditional content-delivery models. They have been able to generate work that can be submitted across a variety of contexts and to enable entry to several external programs for recognition.
With their teacher, the students will describe and evaluate the processes and ways of working they have adopted, as well as highlighting how their work has produced interdisciplinary artifacts that can be used to guide and assess learning across a range of subject areas within their regular school timetable. They will also consider the benefits of student agency and external audiences in building engagement and focus in their learning. The students will discuss how programs such as Game Changer Awards, ANSTO National Science Week Hackathon, STEM4Innovation and think tank events provide platforms for the practice and application of their collaborative human-centered design-thinking process to enhance their learning in STEM and other areas across the curriculum.
Too often student experience of learning is not reflected in education conferences. As one of the most important voices in the whole system, they often struggle to be heard. This paper will provide insights into student perceptions of integrated STEM as an approach to meaningful learning that provides scope and depth of learning across many parts of the broader K-100 curriculum. Content and capabilities will be considered and the students along with their teacher will endeavour to unpack the benefits and challenges they encounter.
Establishing global connections and being a global educatorKim Flintoff
Participating in AISWA's Purposeful Pedagogies PD... the story of being a global educator involves being disrupted (and disruptive), embracing risk, ambiguity and uncertainty... but above all, connected!
If learning is confined to a classroom and doesn't connect beyond the school gates its probably irrelevant...
Part of a series of presentations about Challenge-based Learning and Curtin University's Global Challenge platform. Presented during May 2020 via the Cisco Digital Schools Network.
http://LearningFuturesNetwork.org
http://GlobalCnallenge.org.au
Sparking a K-12 Innovation Conversation: Moving from Global to Local Trends
Wednesday, May 13, 2020: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Description
How do you lead a thoughtful conversation about emerging technologies and innovation in your school district/system? This interactive Global Symposium will define the most important trends that should be addressed by K-12 edtech leaders today to empower learners tomorrow. CoSN gathered a panel of international advisors to examine the key obstacles we are seeking to overcome in education along with intensifying megatrends. In the context of the recently released Driving K-12 Innovation: Hurdles/Accelerators publication, the 2020 Global Symposium will help you make the connection between global megatrends and what’s going on in your local school system. Speakers, facilitators, and panelists will be announced shortly. Take part in a hands-on, interactive session to help you stimulate conversation and about innovation in education when you go home. You’ll receive tips on conversation starters and hear how panelists have initiated future-focused discussions in their communities.
The Schools Innovation Projects Initiative (SIPI) promotes research and fosters understanding of how new technologies support academic excellence and student success. SIPI leverages a “network of networks”, including tools and practices that will collaboratively increase efficiency and capacity for high-quality learning engagement.
Balance of the Planet is a project from Curtin University that connects learners from around the globe and invites them to learn valuable skills, compete for scholarship funds and prizes, and gain university-endorsed recognition by solving real-world problems associated with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Future Landscapes for Educational TechnologyKim Flintoff
WA Education Summit - May 24 - Optus Stadium
2017 saw the conclusion of one of the most significant global projects around educational technologies. The Horizon Report K-12 was published for the last time as the New Media Consortium was wound up operations. During 2018 several new projects emerged around the globe including the CoSN Driving K-12 Innovation project, Australian Educational Technology Trends, and others. Each seeking to bridge the knowledge gap between where education is heading and what will be happening in terms of technology use. This session will consider some of the emerging trends, and discuss some of the expectations over the next 2-5 years as they are likely to be experienced by schools, teachers, administrators and technology leaders. Extended reality, drones, eSports, data and analytics, visualisation technologies, space science and astronomy, new strategies for assessment, and other imminent engagements will be discussed.
Global Challenge Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2QEgqV4sCA
Black Swans and the Future of EducationKim Flintoff
“A black swan is an event or occurrence that deviates beyond what is normally expected of a situation and is extremely difficult to predict. Black swan events are typically random and unexpected.”
2017 saw the conclusion of one of the most significant global projects around educational technologies. The Horizon Report K-12 was published for the last time as the New Media Consortium was wound up operations.
During 2018 several new projects emerged around the globe including the CoSN Driving K-12 Innovation project, Australian Educational Technology Trends, and others. Each seeking to bridge the knowledge gap between where education is heading and what will be happening in terms of technology use.
This talk will consider some of the emerging trends, and discuss some of the expectations over the next 2-5 years as they are likely to be experienced by schools, teachers, administrators and technology leaders. Extended reality, drones, eSports, data and analytics, visualisation technologies, space science and astronomy, new strategies for assessment, and other imminent engagements will be discussed.
Education and Emerging Futures Children's Week 2018Kim Flintoff
A presentation for Childrens' Week 2018. Offered at State Library of Western Australia in Perth October 24, 2018. Thanks to Meeralinga for their invitation and support.
Securing the future of education with BlockchainKim Flintoff
ABSTRACT
As all levels and sectors of education contemplate ongoing developments in digital technology, distributed and fragmented models of learning, stackable credentials, and educational unbundling the potential for a system like blockchain to bring security to a diverse landscape of evidence of learning, recognition of learning and acknowledgement of learning becomes more relevant.
As MOOCs, SPOCs, online courses, RPL and alternative credentialling become more ubiquitous the main stakeholders in education, industry and government are realising the need for systems that enable higher levels of trust when certificates, awards and prior learning recognition are at stake.
This session will discuss some of the needs and some of the attempts already in place globally.
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2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
We acknowledge the Nyungar
Wadjuk people as the traditional
owners of country on which
Curtin’s Bentley campus sits.
We acknowledge their continuing
connection to land, sea and
community and pay our respects
to them and their culture; and to
elders, past present and
emerging.
4. WHY AN INNOVATION SYMPOSIUM?
• Collaboration to bring scale and momentum to transformation
and innovation
• School and learner led initiatives
• Consortia-approach to draw extended engagement from non-
school organisations
• STEM priority (incorporating DIGITECH)
• CAPABILITIES priority
5. 10 SHIFTS OF PRACTICE OF FUTURE-
FOCUSED-FOCUSED LEARNING
• Essential and Herding Questions
• Connection Through Context and
Relevance
• Learning is Personalized
• Challenge of Higher-Order Tasks
• Information Fluency Research
Component
• Process Oriented Using the Essential
Fluencies
• Learning Intentions are Clear
• Learner-Creation Focus
• Assessment is Mindful
6. THE 3 CARDINAL RULES OF USING FUTURE-
FOCUSED TEACHING PRACTICES
1. Give students problems that matter -
to them.
2. Give them access to the tools they need.
3. Have the courage to stand aside.
7. LEARNING INVISIBLY: THE VALUE OF
UNSTRUCTURED EXPERIENCES
We identified a growing ecology of approaches, which include
problem-based learning, socially-connected laboratories and
idea incubators, learning communities that are decentered
from top-down pedagogies, and building direct connections
between tacit and explicit knowledge. Together, these form
the foundation in developing sound personal knowledge,
which is crucial for success in a knowmad society.
- John Moravec (Knowmad, Education Futures)
https://mag.e-180.com/2016/03/learning-invisibly-the-value-of-
unstructured-experiences/
8. TIMETABLE
• PRESENTATIONS 13.40 – 14.30
• COFFEE BREAK 14.30 – 14.45 (PRESENTERS AVAILABLE for Q&A)
• BREAKOUT SESSION 1 14.45 – 15.15
• BREAKOUT SESSION 2 15.15 – 15.45
• WRAP-UP AND NEXT STEPS 15.45 – 16.00
• GOODBYE 16.00
• NETWORKING 16.00 – 16.30
(WEBEX CROSS TO MAURITIUS FOR BALANCE OF THE PLANET LAUNCH)
9. PRESENTATIONS
• 13.40 - Tim Rowberry (John Curtin College of the Arts) – AR/VR Extended/Immersive
Realities
• 13.45 - Cara Fugill (Scotch College) – Drones
• 13.50 - Stella Jinman (Cecil Andrews College) – eSports (based on Jeremy Lu’s efforts)
• 13.55 - Tomaz Lasic (Yule Brook College) and Phil Casas (Comet Bay College) - Design,
Making and Technical Challenges
• 14.05 - Andrew Hannah (Curtin University STEM Outreach) - Space Science/Astronomy
• 14.10 - Tim Keely (Curtin University STEM Outreach) - FIRST Tech/Robotics/Lego
14.15 - Dr Martin Cooper (Curtin University School of Education) – Assessment strategies
• 14.20 – Professor John Williams (Curtin University STEM Research Group) – Higher Degree
by Research opportunities (M.ED/PhD) for teachers
• 14.25 - Kim Flintoff (Curtin University Learning Futures) – Global Sustainability Challenges
10. AR/VR EXTENDED/IMMERSIVE REALITIES
TIM ROWBERRY (JOHN CURTIN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS)
• John Curtin College of the Arts and Curtin University are currently engaged
in the development of an immersive technologies consortium that will bring
affordable and accessible VR & AR opportunities into ALL learning areas. We
are currently working on 2 industry connected projects in these fields.
• Project 1: “Leeuwin Tallship VR experience for the public” collaborating with
the Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation. This project will then move into
the development of VR training aids.
• Project 2: “Devise an AR tourist trail for the Margaret River Wine Region”
collaborating with the Western Australian Fishing Industry Council (WAFIC)
to produce an AR experience for travellers to our Southwest.
11. STEM AND DESIGN THINKING WITH DRONES
CARA FUGILL (SCOTCH COLLEGE)
Scotch College and Curtin University have partnered on the
curriculum for a new elective that asks year nine students to use
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) to
explore drone technology as a solution to real-life issues.
The curriculum is the first joint initiative to be undertaken after
Scotch College signed on to Curtin’s newly established Innovative
Schools Consortium (ISC), which recognises the commitment of
secondary educators to identify and support talented students
through innovation in learning and teaching.
12. ESPORTS FOR ENTERPRISE LEARNING
STELLA JINMAN (CECIL ANDREWS COLLEGE)
Cecil Andrews College has embarked on an eSports program.
Overall vision of the eSports club was to set up a network, train
for events and integrate assessment tasks into the overall
project, using student assigned roles and authentic learning to
develop both a physical room as well as the eSports culture,
linking with Flaktest Gaming as the external collaboration
partner.
This lays a foundation that might be used to create a WACE
Endorsed program around eSports and related activities.
13. DESIGN, MAKING AND TECHNICAL
CHALLENGES
TOMAZ LASIC (YULE BROOK COLLEGE)
PHIL CASAS (COMET BAY COLLEGE)
Yule Brook College has established a Makerspace as an integral
part of their Big Picture approach to learning and learner
development.
Comet Bay College has embraced a comprehensive program that
integrates design and making across the entire school.
14. Our journey into STEM begins with our common understanding of what STEM means to us. We focus on the problem
solving, and the critical and creative skills, and use a problem solving approach as our vehicle.
Projects may be simple and confined to a single learning area or may be much larger and target whole year groups across
multiple learning areas. The commonality is that students are tasked with solving a problem … and having the opportunity
to apply their design process skills, make a prototype and test it, refine and produce a final product, and present it.
The drawing of a solution is one of the keys. We look for higher level skills and support AutoCAD across the College, but
the laser cutters work just as effectively from a scanned image on graph paper.
Students are then able to 3D print, laser cut, plasma cut or CNC mill a prototype for testing. Many of the early prototypes
are laser cut from 3 mm MDF as it is really cheap and resembles many of the properties of the final material.
We have added a second Maker Space room and plan to include such a room in each learning block in the school.
Presentation and / or competition play a big role in the process. Here are some of the things we have staff and students
involved in ….
PHIL CASAS (COMET BAY COLLEGE)
15. Comet Bay Professional Learning Community – Four partner primary schools –
4500 students K-12
Mechatronics/robotics/coding delivered to Year 5 students at Golden Bay PS
through the Comet Bay Professional Learning Community (CBPLC)
60 2
Nautilus Year 1-4 students attend the College focusing on
Science/Maths/ICT/Robotics feeds into PEAC, CBC funded
80 1
Nautilus Year 5/6 Master Class doing secondary work with a
science/maths/engineering/forensics focus)
42 1
Nautilus Showcase 200 + 2
Comet Bay Professional Learning Community Science Expo at Golden Bay PS 8 3
First Lego League Junior and First Lego League competition teams – mentoring
partnership through the CBPLC with Lego EV3 kits funded by School Pathways
Program
30 3
CBPLC – STEM and Digital Technologies Team – Meeting twice a term and
planning for staff professional learning and student engagement
8
Professional Learning – school staff and partnerships
STEM for educators everywhere CONNECT Community 239
Staff Professional Learning modules through TDS Partnership 27
Critical and creative thinking workshop – STEM Team members 8
Arduino Group – teachers learning coding 16
Lesson design workshops using Class VR headsets 12
Design workshop for CBPLC schools – enhancing design drafting and prototyping
skills
9
Gender awareness training for staff – specific STEM focus 9
First Lego League – Competition team 17 1
Hosting FLL South Metro Competition in partnership with Curtin University and
School Pathways Program
400 +
40 teams from multiple schools
20
Volunteer judges
STEM Think Tank with the Institute for Professional Learning – designing PL
modules for schools and whole school integration of STEM
3
STEM Learning Expo 10
Robot in 3 Days workshop with FRC Team from Curtin University – for all schools
interested in participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition
12
STELR – wind turbine and solar panel professional learning 2
Teachers can Code – participant and trainer 1
Drone Technology and Operations professional Learning – presentation at the
2018 DATTA conference, numerous PL opportunities through TDS
20+
School activities Yr 7 - 12
After school engineering extension club 12 1
After school Girls Creative Design & Technology club 14 1
After school EV Challenge Race Team club 22 3
After school subs club (Subs in Schools) 14 1
Peel / Peron corridor schools participating in an Interschool Design Problem
Challenge – from Hovercar design and racing, aerodynamics and glider design,
propulsion and water pressure rockets.
40
Multiple schools
5
Speed Careering Expo for all Year 10s focusing on Engineering/Technology
funded by School Pathways Program (SPP)
340 8
UWA Engineering Day for GAT Maths students 4 1
Maths e-learning Year 11 course online 38 3
Curtin University delivers 2 terms for GAT Science students focusing on
engineering/science solving 3rd world problems
24 2
Summer schools/camps funded by SPP 6 1
Electronic Vehicle (EV) Challenge (D&T teacher Clay Woolcock is the State
Chairman)
2017 Overall Grand Champion Team
22 1
Delivery of ATAR Engineering and General Engineering through D&T 24 1
Year 11 and 12 Metals 54 3
Year 11 and 12 Wood 71 4
Year 11 Dimensional Design – CAD 17 1
Strategic Games Club 20 1
Scitech STEM Learning Project - Urban Shade STEM project – all Year 9s – as
part of their Science curriculum
329 12
Water for Living STEM Project – all Year 7’s – a collaboration and alignment of
Science and HASS curriculum
334 26
STELR Wind Turbine – STELR Solar panels – Electrical measurement and
Renewable Energy Project – all Year 8’s
320 12
Maths extension – Serapinski pyramid design project 24 1
Delivery of Lower school Computer Assisted Drawing (CAD) and Computer
Numerically Controlled (CNC), Plasma cutter, laser cutter, electronics,
mechatronics, coding, Pick Axe, electrical interfacing sensors and actuators
through D&T
- Mechanics
- Metalwork
- Woodwork
- Mechatronics
148
162
208
86
4
5
2
4
Electrics / Electronics
- Year 9
- Year 10
21
22
2
2
Robotics through Computer Science – after school club – Curtin Robotics 22 1
Extension Computing, coding offered through IT & Design 48 1
Coder Dojo club - after school club 15 1
Earthquake safe housing … Year 9 Science & Geology project – Student model
houses are tested to destruction on a shaker table.
329 7
Urban development project – building a model of Springfield using Lasercut
models
20 1
Computing
- Year 7
- Year 8
- Year 9
334
320
329
12
10
11
Design Photography 180 3
Media Studies and Digital Technologies
- Year 7
- Year 8
- Year 9
- Year 10
97
36
42
25
3
3
3
3
Certificate II in Information and Digital Media Technology 22 1
16.
17. SPACE SCIENCE / ASTRONOMY
ANDREW HANNAH (CURTIN STEM OUTREACH)
Curtin University has been increasingly establishing its
leadership in the growing interest in all manner of unearthly
activity.
Astrophysics, planetary science, space science, Fireballs in the
Sky, the Murchison Wide Array, The Square Kilometre Array, the
Mission Discovery (Space Science) Program, Space Science and
Technology Research Centre and more.
These programs link Curtin to the new Australian Space Agency,
NASA, JSA, ESA and the developing Space Science and
18. FIRST (TECHNICAL / ROBOTICS / LEGO)
TIM KEELY (CURTIN STEM OUTREACH)
Curtin University has led many of the FIRST activities
19. ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
DR MARTIN COOPER (CURTIN SCHOOL OF EDUCATION)
• Escaping the subject silo-ing gives the opportunity for some truly
innovative assessment methods
• Firstly ask the question: What should we be assessing?
• Chance to assess performance rather than product (those 21st
century skills we all talk about)
• ‘Live’ portfolios: data collected digitally during a design process over
time (this could be a single lesson or a number of weeks)
• We should apply our own STEM skills to the job of designing better
assessment!
20. HIGHER DEGREE BY RESEARCH
OPPORTUNITIES (M.ED/PHD) FOR TEACHERS
PROFESSOR JOHN WILLIAMS (CURTIN STEM EDUCATION RESEARCH GROUP)
A deficiency in STEM programs is the measurement of outcomes. One
way of enabling this is to have a supervisor assist in framing the
research around a STEM project. A school coordinated approach has a
number of advantages. Options are:
• MEd: coursework and research project
• MPhil: research project
• EdD: coursework and thesis
• PhD: thesis
21. GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES
KIM FLINTOFF (CURTIN LEARNING AND TEACHING, LEARNING FUTURES)
Challenge-based Learning “is a pedagogical approach that
actively engages students in a situation that is real, relevant and
related to their environment, which involves defining a challenge
and implementing a solution.” (Observatory of Educational Innovation)
Global Sustainability Goals have underpinned many of our ACES
programs and partnerships: UNEP-DHI Eco Challenge Australia,
Global Water Challenge, Balance of the Planet, Global Goals
Challenge, UNAA(WA) Global Citizenship and Sustainability
Program, Young Persons' Plan for the Planet (ANU).
These programs can combine to create a rich and relevant,
22. NEXT SESSIONS
COFFEE BREAK – use it as a chance to caffeinate and to Q&A with
presenters
BREAKOUT SESSION 1 14.45 – 15.15 | BREAKOUT SESSION 2 15.15
– 15.45
Use the breakout sessions to meet with the two key projects your
school would like to be associated with. If you are interested in
more than two – please make sure you get contact details from
others and follow-up.