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<p class="MsoNormal">The Department of Education and Training hasmanaged to secure Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager, authors of ‘Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering and Engineering in the Classroom’ for a series of STEM workshops. Each workshop will run from
9.00am – 3.30pm. These workshops will be free of charge to Victorian Government teachers. Please circulate this information to your networks and register as soon as possible.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Monday 22<sup>nd</sup> August: Invent to learn with Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager</u></b>
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/invent-to-learn-with-sylvia-martinez-and-gary-stager-monday-22nd-august-tickets-26937241013">
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/invent-to-learn-with-sylvia-martinez-and-gary-stager-monday-22nd-august-tickets-26937241013</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Invent to Learn</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Join colleagues for a day of hard fun and problem solving — where computing meets tinkering and design. The workshop begins with
the case for project-based learning, making, tinkering, and engineering. Next, we will discuss strategies for effective prompt setting. You will view examples of children engaged in complex problem solving with new game-changing technologies and identify lessons
for your own classroom practice. Powerful ideas, breakthroughs in science education, and the global maker movement combine to create rich learning experiences</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Participants will have the chance to tinker with a range of exciting new low- and high-tech construction materials that can really
amplify the potential of your students.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">You will learn:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">How new tools and technology can reinvigorate Project-Based Learning<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Best classroom practices for integrating maker technology<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">How to plan engaging projects based on the TMI design model<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">How to choose the technologies with the maximum learning impact<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">How to make the case for making, tinkering, and engineering<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">How to incorporate found, recycled, and reclaimed materials in project development<b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Fabrication with cardboard and found materials, squishy electronic circuits, wearable computing, Arduino micro controllers, Hummingbird
robotics, LittleBits, and computer programming are all on the menu.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Bring a laptop and your imagination. We’ll supply the rest (craft materials, art supplies, construction elements). Invention is the
mother of learning!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">This workshop is suitable for teachers of all year levels and subject areas.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Tuesday 23<sup>rd</sup> August: Girls and STEM / Wearable Technology with Sylvia Martinez</u></b>
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/girls-and-stem-wearable-technology-tuesday-23rd-august-tickets-26937384442">
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/girls-and-stem-wearable-technology-tuesday-23rd-august-tickets-26937384442</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Wearables and Soft-Circuits for STEM Education - Supporting Inclusion and Equity with Hands-on Maker Technology</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Are there ways that work to interest more girls in STEM, and keep them interested? How can K-12 schools and informal learning organizations
address a gender disparity problem that impacts not just schools, but colleges, jobs, and every walk of life? This session will explore research, resources, and best practices to involve girls of all ages in STEM. Participants will learn about the potential
to bring new tools and technology to learning spaces to support hands-on learning across all grades and curriculum – plus areas that are of particular interest to girls, such as inventions that help people, sewable electronics, e-textiles, bio-materials, citizen
science, and community projects. Hands-on projects and tools can engage girls (and all learners) in STEM activities that matter. We will explore how the collaborative, tinkering nature of global revolutions like the maker movement, open source, and project-based
learning dovetails with girls ability to work collaboratively and in a connected way.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">A way to support learners who are traditionally under-represented in STEM courses is to introduce interesting new technology that
supports diverse interests and passions. Wearable technologies do this by combining craft traditions with digital electronics. Sewable, wearable projects invite different students into the maker movement by providing new and multiple onramps for a wider range
of students. We will explore new conductive materials, such as thread, fabric, paint, glue, foils, and specialty microcontrollers.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Bring a laptop and your imagination. We’ll supply the rest (craft materials,
art supplies, construction elements). Invention is the mother of learning!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">This workshop is suitable for teachers of all year levels and subject
areas.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Thursday 24<sup>th</sup> August: Reinventing Maths with Gary Stager</u></b>
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/reinventing-mathematics-education-thursday-25th-august-tickets-26937755552">
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/reinventing-mathematics-education-thursday-25th-august-tickets-26937755552</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Reinventing Mathematics Education<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">There may be no greater gap between a discipline and the teaching done in its name than when the beauty, power and mystery of mathematics become
math instruction. One can only begin to address the systemic challenges of math education by understanding the nature of mathematics and the power of computing. Nearly 100 years of efforts to increase achievement with unchanged curricular content continues
to fail spectacularly; yet, we do not change course. Surely, the widespread availability of computational technology demands new pedagogical approaches and a new diet of mathematics.<br>
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This workshop moves beyond the goal of making math instruction engaging for children by providing educators with authentic mathematical thinking experiences. Such experiences acknowledge the role computers play in mathematics and society’s increasing demand
for computational thinking. Project-based approaches with mathematics at the center of the activity will be explored. Traditional concepts such as numeracy, geometry, probability and graphing will be investigated in addition to exciting new branches of mathematics
rarely found in math class.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Bring a laptop and your imagination. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">This workshop is suitable for Primary Maths teachers and Secondary Maths Teachers up to year 10.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For further information, please contact Wendy Macpherson.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#365F91;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Wendy Macpherson | Senior Project Officer, Learning and Teaching Branch | <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#365F91;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Secondary Reform, Transitions and Priority Cohorts Division</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#365F91;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Department of Education and Training</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">Level 2, 33 St Andrews Place, East Melbourne VIC 3002</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">T: (03) 96510258 </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#BFBFBF;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">| </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"> M:
0488 779 224</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">E:
<a href="mailto:macpherson.wendy.w@edumail.vic.gov.au">macpherson.wendy.w@edumail.vic.gov.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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