Future Schools 2017

• Storify of some of the conference https://storify.com/anneticipation/future-schools-2017-melbourne
• What is the message we are sending about STEM?
• STEM should be about “Social Responsibility,” not just jobs and money
• Presentation from Narissa Leung: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YBsLosZwf1QSeB8GRN03VhFdq7-FVRlWt8srBL5KXK0/edit#slide=id.g1eea9a7e75_0_187
• http://enablingthefuture.org/

 

Makerspace In-house Promo March 27 2017

“Makerspace”is not an end in itself. It is about providing capacity to enable students to gain the skills and attributes to solve the world’s real problems; a world that is largely following a “money” paradigm, that is leading to growing inequality and suffering, and destroying the planet. Students need to be armed with these “future” skills and attributes, and the knowledge that a sustainable future depends on “social responsibility” not pursuit of wealth. These students need to be able to find their own problems, and be able to apply inquiry and design thinking models to keep improving their prototypes. The goal of teaching is not engagement, it is about the real problems that confront us all.

https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/publications/paper_snr_21c_skills.pdf

Some links will only work for school personnel: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0LlWBc4_vDkNTFDWHVieXJtTkU

 

 

Year 8 STEM-Home Sweet Home unit

Students applying research on sustainable homes by building their own house in Minecraft Flatworld. This was extended further this year with students screencasting their house with a voiceover describing the sustainable features of their house.

Cre8 Lab March 2017

Term 2, 2017 Cre8 Lab Program https://allhallowsschoollibrary.com/2017/03/16/cre8-lab-workshops-term-2-2017/

 

TDU Home Sweet Home March 2017

Some changes this year to tiny house unit: screencasting minecraft houses, less cardboard – using card templates instead, more time on tinkercad and 3D printing, more use of minecraft for problem solving