Cultivating digitally prepared teachers to cater for girls in schools

1. Cultivating digitally prepared teachers to cater for girls in schools Kar-Tin Lee Head School of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. k5.lee@qut.edu.au We are here CRICOS No. 00213J

2. Australia’s Teachers: Australia’s Future – Advancing Innovation, Science, Technology and Mathematics(DEST, 2003) The review, recognised that much remains to be done to translate national goals into effective action. Key issues: Current STEM teaching does too little to stimulate curiosity, problem solving, depth of understanding and continued interest in learning among students, or to thus encourage them to undertake advanced study in science and mathematics at school and beyond.

3. Ministerial Advisory Committee for Educational RenewalMarch 2004 A Creative Workforce for a Smart State Professional Development for Teachers in an Era of Innovation Teacher training: Teachers as knowledge workers Teachers have high levels of formal education Teachers regularly upgrade their stock of complex knowledge on a voluntary basis Teachers need to be paid well

4. A Creative Workforce for a Smart State Professional Development for Teachers in an Era of Innovation Part of this process is the reprofiling of the teaching workforce as producers – of material and human resources, intellectual content, to provide learning services to clients – rather than as providers of curriculum. In this model, students are creators of demand for learning rather than comprising an endless supply of raw materials for a timeless profession called teaching.

5. Robotics Education in MSTE units – 4 yr BEd Access to robotics kits on Field Studies (Australian Microelectronics Centre) MDB392: LEGO Elective Advanced Robotics Participation inFIRST Lego League Extension opportunities MDB005: TEACHING PRIMARY DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY Teaching Objective: Problem Solving (FLL Challenges) MDP459: Middle Year 4 Postgrad-Middle Years, Grad Dip MDB004: TEACHING PRIMARY ICT Teaching Objective: Integrating robotics in REAL classrooms MDB004: TEACHING PRIMARY ICT Teaching Objectives: Integrating robotics in classrooms Year 3 MDB001 – FOUNDATION STUDIES SCI & QUANTITATIVE LITERACY Teaching Objective: Introducing Robotics Year 1 Pre-service primary units integrating robotics

6. Response to course survey (MDB004 -2009) (75% female, 25% male)

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9. One of the QUT pre-service teachers, Sam Young, of Cannon Hill, said she expected to be working a lot with Lego robotics in the future, and was keen to get a look at how young students responded to them. "I think children are extremely technologically savvy, and Lego robotics are going to increase in popularity, so I wanted to be involved in this to gain a greater understanding myself," she said. Statement from a pre-service student

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11. MSTE Faculty Thank you.