Student-directed engagement in community-linked STEM integration through collaborative challenge-based learning.
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The document outlines the TIDES program, which emphasizes student-directed engagement in community-linked STEM learning through challenge-based collaboration. It aims to develop skills in areas such as critical thinking, creativity, and industry connections while addressing real-world issues through innovative solutions. By fostering personal responsibility and agency, the program encourages students to contribute meaningfully to their learning experiences and future pathways.
Student-directed engagement in community-linked STEM integration through collaborative challenge-based learning.
- 1. Student-directed engagement in community- linked STEM integration through collaborative challenge-based learning. Kim Flintoff Felix Abbott Stephanie Beaumont Cabrera Byron Silchinger Caleb Whyte
- 2. Understanding the long term effects of our present actions – developing solutions that enable viable, manageable and ethical futures. SUSTAINABILITY Using and considering technology as a functional tool in learning, design and purposeful communication. TECHNOLOGY Developing new approaches to existing and emerging challenges – thinking in new ways. INNOVATION Creating new products, systems and services as solutions. DESIGN Shaping strategies and approaches that develop sustainable business and/or or social benefits. ENTERPRISE W H A T I S T I D E S
- 3. LEARNING AIMS Sharing experience - Examining diverse concepts - Articulating, applying and building understanding - Communicating new powers and creations PERSONAL LEARNING Recognising and valuing the needs and cultures of others - Active Involvement in addressing global needs - Supporting the development of the social, economic and environmental pillars GLOBAL AWARENESS / SUSTAINABILITY Exploring and understanding - Representing and formulating - Planning and executing - Monitoring and reflecting CRITICAL THINKING / PROBLEM SOLVING Idea Generation - Design and Refinement - Openness and Exploration - Working Creatively - Creative Production CREATIVITY Establishing and maintaining shared understanding - Taking appropriate action to solve the problem - Establishing and maintaining team organisation COLLABORATION / COMMUNICATION This program is designed to support students via their collaborative interaction with industry, government, and the broader community to showcase their innovation and creative potential in addressing some of the most challenging problems facing our society, locally, nationally, and internationally. REAL WORLD SOLUTIONS
- 4. CHALLENGE-BASED LEARNING The Challenge Based Learning (CBL) framework is collaborative and hands-on, asking all participants (students, teachers, families, and community members) to identify Big Ideas, ask good questions, identify and solve Challenges, gain in-depth subject area knowledge, develop 21st-century skills, and share their thoughts with the world. Challenge Based Learning provides an efficient and effective framework for learning while solving real-world Challenges.
- 5. HUMAN-CENTRED DESIGN EMPATHISE TEST IDEATE DEFINE PROTOTYPE CLARIFICATION Clarify the part of the problem that will be specifically considered CREATION Creating a workable iteration of the solution through proposal and modelling. EMPATHY Understand who and how people are effected by an issue CREATIVITY Generate ideas and plans to address the problem. ANALYSIS Putting the solution in place (where possible), or presenting it to stakeholders to consider viability and suitability. IMPLEMENT SOLUTION Translating a tested idea into practice and evaluating the outcomes.
- 6. REAL WORLD CONNECTIONS Students tackled the Technology in Agriculture Challenge to design adjustments to Australia’s food production systems that would improve quality and availability while minimizing costs. Their solution involved an integrated system of vertical farming, harvesting, packing and transportation to ensure produce was available with minimal time and travel from farm to plate. EMHS YOUTH INNOVATION THINK TANK Students convened at Royal Perth Hospital and worked with Health Professionals as mentors to consider issues relating to youth access to mental health services. The solution created dove-tailed with those of other teams to offer real value to the hospital in implementing meaningful change. NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK HACKATHON
- 7. REAL WORLD CONNECTIONS Students have worked on two Health and Wellbeing Challenges – the Hospital Immersion Challenge aiming to assist Professor Fiona Wood with viable solutions for improved COVID-19 management technologies, systems and practices within her operating theatre environment at Fiona Stanley Hospital. The current challenge is offered by a team of Upper Gastrointestinal surgeons to develop long-term educational solutions to the increasing incidence of lifestayle related health conditions in Australia. WATER CORPORATION THINK TANK Students contributed solutions to the WA Water Corporation in response to challenges around excessive domestic water consumption. STEM4INNOVATION
- 8. The programs adopted under TIDES always require students to make choices and commit to bringing their own personal interests and capabilities to engage in ways that are personally relevant. PERSONAL RELEVANCE The ways of working in TIDES create natural conditions for POSITIVE INTERDEPENDENCE – circumstances where the only way to successfully achieve outcomes is when every team member commits to and fulfills their responsibilities; and all team members are responsible for team dynamics. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY STUDENT AGENCY
- 9. IMPACTS Students have the opportunity throughout TIDES to direct and define their own learning experiences, and to contribute to reports the progress of themselves and their peers. Personal Learning TIDES creates conditions where it is not enough to simply know about something, students must be able to apply and extend the skills that turn knowing into purposeful activity. Connecting Skills and Knowledge Students begin to develop greater awareness and connection to future pathways and opportunities. Futures Awareness By working with stakeholders outside the school , students have the opportunity to develop insights into the structures of industry, and to become known by stakeholders in those industries. Industry Connections All aspects of working in TIDES requires students to consistently practice and demonstrate the full scope of future-ready attributes. 21st Century Skills
- 10. IMPACTS Students discover new dimensions to traditional industries. The unseen but very exciting new developments in Health, Science, Technology, etc. Igniting New Interests Students discover the relevance of their learning journeys as the outcomes are directly related to real world issues, and often personally connected. Relevance of Learning All students, but especially young women and girls, begin to consider STEM pathways as valid options and gateways to related careers. Women in STEM By working on projects across a range of contexts students are able to repurpose, refine, revise and re-evaluate work they are already deeply invested in – thereby expanding scope and depth of engagement. Extended Scope and Depth Throughout the work in TIDES students regularly find themselves creating new expressions, new ideas, new products, new systems etc. Learning is seen as a creative rather than a passive process. Becoming Creators
- 11. • The TIDES program is established • Students introduced to expectations • New ways of working and community connections. FUTURE DIRECTIONS 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 • Review and refine strategies • Establish community partnerships and activities • Build internal links across learning areas. • PCACS becomes regional hub for innovative learning • TIDES leads and shapes new opportunities and student-devised learning • Develop unique PCACS-led activities • Consolidate expectations for staff, students and families. • TIDES and associated priorities and attitudes embedded in school culture • TIDES provides unique and adaptive experiences for PCACS students.
- 12. S c i e n c e T e c h n o l o g y E n g i n e e r i n g A r t s M a t h e m a t i c s TIDES COORDINATOR Kim Flintoff TIDES Coordinator kflintoff@pcacs.wa.edu.au https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimflintoff/