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Wednesday October 5th
7.30am – 8.45am
Registration opens and Welcome Breakfast
8.45am – 9:30am
Conference Opening
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jane den Hollander, Deakin University
Deputy Premier, The Hon James Merlino
Conference Convenor, Dr Linda Hobbs
9:30am – 10am
Keynote presentation
Perspectives on Elementary STE(A)M Education: Silos, Stews, and Bridges
Richard Lehrer, Vanderbilt University
10am – 10.20am
Morning Tea
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10.20am – 12pm CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS 1 (20 mins plus 5 min question time)
TEACHER EDUCATIONChair: Chris Speldewinde Venue: ke1.207 Lecture Theatre |
TEACHING APPROACHESChair: Coral Campbell Venue: ke1.202 |
STEM PROGRAMSChair: Colleen Vale Venue: ke2.102 |
SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIESChair: Leissa Kelly Venue: ke2.108 |
INTERDISCIPLINARY STEMChair: John Cripps Clark Venue: ke2.202 |
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| 10.20am – 10.45am |
Teaching for tomorrow – Applying authentic contexts in STEM teacher educationDenise MacGregor and Bruce White |
Geoscience and Digital Technologies: Context and ConsiderationsEmily Rochette |
The ESTEME model – using engineering to assess and extend STEM learningDan Jazby |
Towards building authentic understandings of contemporary science practices for science educatorsDeborah Corrigan, Greg Lancaster, Lisa Fazio and Joanne Burke |
Conceptualising and implementing interdisciplinary approaches to STEM EducationJan Van Driel and David Clarke |
| 10.45am – 11.10am |
Advancing Science and Engineering through Laboratory Learning: application of ASELL in Victorian SchoolsJohn Long, Kieran Lim and Peta White |
Starting a revolution inside our classrooms with simple and engaging Arduino circuit boardsPaulo da Silva |
Evaluating the CSIRO Indigenous STEM Education ProjectMichael Tynan |
Representation of modern research and development practices in the curriculumStuart Palmer,Russell Tytler and Leissa Kelly |
Inter-disciplinary mathematics: Old wine in new bottles?Brian Doig and Wendy Jobling |
| 11.10am – 11.35am |
How does the influence of Lesson Study impact on the learning of teacher education students to teach primary science?Barbara Black |
Integrating science and technology in kindergartenChristine Preston |
Growing Tall Poppies: Findings from a partnership program between students and scientistsEroia Barone-Nugent and Peter Hubber |
Evaluating university-led STEM outreachEfrat Eilam |
How we might evaluate the impact of STEM Education for Australian studentsChristine Redman |
| 11.35am – 12pm |
Building STEM capability – the imperative of getting schools on boardChris Goy and Carley Brennan |
Learning in STILE: Students interacting with an online science learning platformConnie Cirkony, Peter Hubber and Patrizia Luna |
Fast Cars in Schools Primary a Pilot ProgrammeJason Steinwedel |
STEM and educational cynicismMaurizio Toscano |
12pm – 1pm
Lunch
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1pm – 2.25pm WORKSHOPS 1 (40 minutes)
| Venue: ke1.202 | Venue: ke2.102 | Venue: ke2.108 | Venue: ke2.202 | |
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| 1pm – 1.45pm |
How to Engage Students in Mathematics Using Real World ContextJillian Kenny |
The TAP: STEMming from communityAndrea Vallance and Anne Frazer |
Renewable energy as a relevant context for engaging studentsPennie Stoyles |
Kindergarten design school – are you up to the challenge?Christine Preston |
| 1.45pm – 2.25pm |
Computational Thinking: What’s coding got to do with it?George Aranda |
Incorporating Google Earth into Year 9 Earth ScienceEmily Rochette |
Conceptualising and contextualising STEM in an Australian contextAnn Osman |
2.25pm – 2.45pm
Afternoon tea
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2.45pm – 4.10pm WORKSHOPS 2 (40 minutes)
| Venue: ke1.202 | Venue: ke2.102 | Venue: ke2.108 | Venue: ke2.202 | |
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| 2.45pm – 3.20pm |
STELR Sustainable Housing WorkshopPeter Pentland |
Investigating real world problems in junior secondary mathematicsSharon Hogan |
Fostering Curious and Enquiring Young LearnersJill Cheesman, Kerryn Driscoll and Dianne Golemac |
Professional Learning Communities as a Model of Professional Development in Pre-Service Teacher STEM EducationDuncan Symons |
| 3.30pm – 4.15pm |
STEM: Sustainability Waste Reclamation ProjectLeonie McGlashan and Matthew Sloan |
A Roadmap to STEM Literacy: Examples from a School in Western AustraliaNathan Curnow |
STEM –It’s Child’s PlayPeter Hope |
Immersion in integrative STEM: recognising the role of engineering in STEM educationEmma Stevenson |
4.15pm – 5.15pm
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Linda Hobbs with Geelong Schools
Building STEM teaching capability in schools: Case study of the Successful Students-STEM Program
5.15pm
Conference close for end of Day 1
Thursday October 6th
8am – 9am
Registration opens
8.45am – 10am
Conference Open
Conference Convenor – Day 2 Welcome
9:30am – 10am
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Julian Williams, The University of Manchester
Becoming un-Disciplined by Science and Mathematics: the life and death of STEM
10am – 10.15am
Morning Tea
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10.15am – 11.55am CONCURRENT PAPER SESSIONS 2 (20 mins plus 5 min question time)
11:55am – 12:55pm
Lunch
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12.55pm – 2.20pm INVITED PRESENTATIONS (40 minutes)
| Venue: ke1.202 | Venue: ke2.102 | Venue: ke2.108 | |
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| 12.55pm – 1.35pm |
Implementing STEM Approaches in Diverse Secondary School ContextsJudy Anderson |
Models of pre-service teachers interacting with scientists and engineersRussell Tytler, Stuart Palmer, Peta White, Leissa Kelly and Mary Gibson |
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| 1.40pm – 2.20pm |
What should Science look like in interdisciplinary STEM?Vaughan Prain and Russell Tytler |
DET, Digital learning and STEM BranchMarc Blanks, Lynn Davie and Wendy Macpherson |
2.25pm – 3.50pm WORKSHOPS 3 (40 minutes)
| Venue: ke1.202 | Venue: ke2.102 | Venue: ke2.108 | Venue: ke2.202 | Venue: ke1.207 Lecture Theatre | |
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| 2.25pm – 3.10pm |
Why kids need to learn to codeMarita Nicholas |
STEM education in action through project based assessmentJohn Meng |
Making STEM Truly TransdisciplinaryJonathan Shearer and Mei Liu |
High Impact STEM practices in Middle YearsTara Robertson, Zen Muller and Rowan O’Callaghan |
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| 3.10pm – 3.50pm |
Developing new mathematics teacher learning in schools and the STEM agendaPat Drake |
Key pillars for a successful & sustainable STEM program in schoolsScott Mcleod, Toby Kidd, Jacqui Watson and Russell Walker |
How to Implement Authentic STEM activities in SchoolsGlenn Carmichael |
Finding design technology in scienceNicola Dziadkiewicz and Angela Gigliotti |
Invited workshop: STEM education for Women and GirlsWendy Lewis |
3.50pm – 4pm
Afternoon tea
4pm – 5pm
Plenary and roundtable discussion
“The future of STEM (Key issues and next steps): Responding to the experts”: analysis, discussions, contributions from the floor
5pm
Conference Ends
Friday October 7th
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9.30am – 4pm SCHOOL VISITS
Tour 19.30am Assemble at Deakin University – Waurn Ponds 9:45am St Josephs College Year 8 students were challenged to create 3 exhibition pieces to explain this question: Explain why a large organism such as a human requires systems to work together to respond to change compared to a unicellular organism? Also an exploration of the year 9 STEM Challenge program, Rockets, and the Year 10 STEM Guitar unit. 10:50am Geelong Baptist College Year 8 students undertake STEM Design Challenges within the Science program, focussing on energy and the engineering process. The tour will include the final challenge task presentation by a group of students. 1:10pm Picnic lunch on the Geelong foreshore. 1:50pm Newcomb Secondary College A group of Year 7 students will demonstrate their coding skills and how it used to control robots, followed by an exploration of the STEM teaching behind the design of the learning activities. 3.30pm Return to Deakin University |
Tour 29.30am Assemble at Deakin University – Waurn Ponds 9:45am Belmont High School Within years 7 Mathematics (algebra) and Science (STEM skills), students participate in a program drawing upon concept development through student generated representations and approaches to problem solving, in the contexts of applied learning activities. 11:30am Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College Year 7 students undertake a Problem Based Challenge, investigating disabled access ramps, within both Mathematics (measurement) and Science (forces and gravity) areas of studies. The tour will include meeting some of these students and learn from them, their experience of this type of approach to anintegrated STEM program. 12:45pm Picnic lunch on the Geelong foreshore. 1:30pm Grovedale College Groups of Year 8 students undertake a STEM Challenge to design, construct and test a rolling vehicle. Team members visit local high-tech industries, as well as investigate their ideas in Science and Mathematics classes, and then design and construct the vehicles in technology classes. Culminates with a challenge afternoon at the College, which the tour will observe. 3.30pm Return to Deakin University |
Full Papers are available for the following Presentations:
- Becoming un-Disciplined by Science and Mathematics: the life and death of STEM – Julian Williams
- STEM –It’s Child’s Play – Peter Hope
- Advancing Science and Engineering through Laboratory Learning: application of ASELL in Victorian Schools – John Long
- Changing attitudes to learning physics through participation in the Victorian Young Physicists Tournament – Scott Daniels