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STEME Team Retreat for Research at a local golf club!!

Monday 18th to Wednesday 20th November saw some members of the STEME Education Research Group hold a research retreat at the Riversdale Golf Club. Highlights included good conversations, focussed meetings, publication completions and convivial collegiality. The venue was beautiful with sunny weather and loads of green lawn and big trees.

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Contemporary Approaches to Research Symposium: Another great success!

Thursday 7th and Friday 8th November saw many of the Deakin STEME Education Research group attend and present at the CAR Symposium. We hosted two excellent keynote speakers: Kathy Nolan form the University of Regina, Canada and Margaret Bearman from CRADLE, Deakin University. There were two full days of stimulating methodologically focussed short presentations followed

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Congratulations to Dr. Kathryn Riley for being awarded her PhD in Education

Early October 2019 saw Deakin University and the School of Education honour our most recent PhD graduates.  The STEME Research group congratulate Dr. Kathryn Riley who made the trip home to Australia to walk the stage of Costa Hall. Kathryns PhD was a posthumanist exploration of environmental education.  Her title is (Re)Storying Human/Nonhuman Relationships:  Posthumanist

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Monash Uni – Visiting Scholar Twilight Talk: Professor Tamara Moore

STEM Integration in the Classroom: Moving from Tinkering to Integration Tuesday 10th December, 4 – 6.00pm Venue: Room 242, Learning & Teaching Building, 19 Ancora Imparo Way Registration: Via booking form Hosted by Professor Amanda Berry. Abstract: This presentation will provide an opportunity for participants to think about integrated STEM education models. Participants will engage

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Green Impact Initiative at Deakin – Team Viridescent video showcase

Several of the Burwood Science academics are enjoying wrapping up the Green Impact initiative in which Deakin has been participating. Team Viridescent has done very well – achieving gold and currently leading the league table for all of Deakin teams. If you are interested in seeing what we have been busy doing – please see

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Successful Family Science Games Night – video showcase

During Science Week (August, 2019) a collaborative of Deakin Science Academics hosted a Family Science Games Night on all three Deakin Campuses – Burwood, Waurn Ponds, and Warrnambool. We had over a hundred parents and children attend and play games with 10 volunteer pre-service teachers. We crafted a short video to give an overview of

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The Deakin STEME Researchers ‘represent’ at the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) Conference

Several of the Science Education team are presenting at the ESERA Conference, Bologna, Italy at the end of August, 2019. https://www.esera2019.org ESERA presentations: Novice Teachers learning to teach out-of-Field (Linda Hobbs) Secondary Teachers learning to teach STEM: Outcomes of a professional learning program – poster (Linda Hobbs & John Cripps Clark) Teacher perceptions of their

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Team Viridescent to take gold in the Green Impact Program

Six members of the Burwood science education group and two amazing student interns have formed Team Viridescent as part of the Green Impact Program offered by Deakin Sustainability. We are challenging ourselves to achieve GOLD with the following innovations: Promoting the University’s Sustainability website pages and the Organisational Sustainability at Deakin to colleagues and students:

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100 Jobs of the Future

Tuesday 23 July saw the launch of the exciting 100 Jobs of the Future project through the website www.100jobsofthefuture.com.  This project involved collaboration between academics at Deakin and Griffith University working in partnership with Ford Australia. Deakin academics in the project included Russell Tytler, Peta White, Dineli Mather and Trevor McCandless. The project involved the

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Bernard Spragg. NZ on Flickr: Queenstown

Deakin STEME Group well represented at international ASERA conference

Early July 2019, several of the Deakin Science education team are attending and presenting at the Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) conference in Queenstown, New Zealand. These are the program highlights… Presentations Exploring the Possibilities of STEM Integration in Secondary School Curriculum in Taiwan and Australia by Su-Chi Fang, Lihua Xu Enriching Maths and

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Linda Hobbs

Linda Hobbs writes about Teaching Out of Field for The Conversation

Senior Lecturer has written a fascinating article on Teaching Out of Field, on the 13th of April, for The Conversation. Out-of-field teaching is a reality that many schools must manage. Increasing the supply of teachers to meet demand, while critical to ensuring we have the right sort of teachers in the schools in most need,

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