Participate and share: Interactive session 
We recognise the untapped power of creating opportunities for digital technology learning beyond the school gate. We seek to build communities of practice and learning across two or more schools through engaging STEM based learning challenges. We do this through utilising digital technology tools and the framework we have jointly created to enable opportunities for students to apply computational and design thinking and creative problem solving while exercising agency, voice and choice. The program further involves students drawing on their skills of creativity and collaboration, building rapport, and exercising learning dispositions in a fun-filled day of inter-school challenges. The strength of the program comes from the mixing of ideas and resources across schools that can be used multiple times to truly build community. In this presentation we will walk you through the framework for constructing such challenge days and grow your own communities.
Content and Time frame
This session will present a framework with a customisable and scalable model to set up and run interschool STEM technology challenge days
We will share:
1. How we created a community of practice (COP) and introduce our framework (10 minutes)
2. Practical implementation and top tips for successful interschool challenge days (10 minutes)
Design pattern for challenge day
Design of challenges - what works
Student role and involvement
Reflections: top tips for success
3. Audience activities (10 minutes)
(see below)
Activities
Audience will use their own device (phone, tablet or laptop) and QR codes or online link with join code to take part in interactive activities during the session. The online tool used will be Mentimeter (https://www.mentimeter.com/) or similar.
Audience opportunity to consider school and community opportunities:
Provide one word to contribute to an online collaborative activity to enter their ideas for building communities of practice in their own context
All participants can access this document and download to their devices at the end of the session
Audience reflect on how an interschool challenge could operate in their own context and 1-3 actionable ideas to implement:
Option to share their reflection and 1-3 actionable ideas anonymously in the online collaborative activity
All participants can access this document and download to their devices at the end of the session.
Science and Technology Educators' Enacted Curriculum: Areas of Possible Collaboration for an Integrative STEM Approach in Public Schools
Brown, Josh; Brown, Ryan; Merrill, Chris. https://www.proquest.com/openview/eb8c63ad281a3fee4a5ad114b19f0a52/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=34845
OECD (2016), Innovating Education and Educating for Innovation: The Power of Digital Technologies and Skills, OECD Publishing, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264265097-en
OECD (2018), Teaching for the Future: Effective Classroom Practices To Transform Education, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264293243-en.
UNESCO (2021). Futures of education: Learning to become. A global initiative to reimagine how knowledge and learning can shape the future of humanity and the planet. https://en.unesco.org/futuresofeducation/
NSW Govt https://education.nsw.gov.au/student-wellbeing/tell-them-from-me/accessing-and-using-tell-them-from-me-data/tell-them-from-me-measures/collaboration#:~:text=Collaboration%20encourages%20teachers%20to%20grow,and%20positively%20affect%20student%20achievement.
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