But we’ve always done it this way! Challenging our assumptions…

But we’ve always done it this way! Challenging our assumptions…

  • On 22-01-2018
  Schools and teachers often ask us to support them in embedding the Technologies Curriculum or to talk about how they can go about nurturing critical and creative thinking better or deepening the problem solving skills of students or even developing the students to be active learners rather than passive ones. Whilst I think these […]
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Part 2 – Design Thinking and the Bendigo TECH School

Part 2 – Design Thinking and the Bendigo TECH School

  • On 04-08-2017
How we used the Design Thinking process to empower teachers to come to a deeper understanding of the design process and to come up with their own ideas to embed Design Thinking in their school. This is part 2 of the thinking and planning that went into creating a 90 minute design challenge that would […]
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Design Thinking and the Bendigo TECH School – Part 1

Design Thinking and the Bendigo TECH School – Part 1

  • On 10-07-2017
A day of experiencing and using design thinking at the forthcoming Bendigo Tech school 10 Victorian Tech Schools As you may or may not have known the Victorian Department of Education is in the midst of establishing ten Tech schools in various regions around Victoria. The intent is that these “state-of-the-art Tech Schools will use […]
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Preparing for the Technologies Curriculum

  • On 13-04-2016
We recently finished a month of running workshops around Australia on “Practical Steps to STEAM” and “You Can Teach Coding” and we learnt quite a few lessons that are worth considering as you prepare to implement the Technologies Curriculum. Lessons The future we are preparing our students for should not be based on the way […]
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