Research shows that student engagement and motivation increases when they present their work to someone other than their teacher but what should the end product look like and how can we publish student work to the world for feedback and impact? Check out this free resource from New Tech Network, experts in student-centred learning.
Read MoreWe’re not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination, but with rising vaccination levels and talk of opening up towards the end of the year, here at New Tech Network Australia, we’ve been considering this: as the pandemic starts to recede from the cortex of our minds, how do we make lemonade out of almost two years worth of lemons?
In the course of my work, I’m fortunate to have the opportunity to consistently think with and learn from some inspiring educators in schools and districts that are tackling innovative work. And that work is hard too. Increasingly, I wonder if one thing that makes that work hard is that we are thinking about and/or acting on different understandings of “learning”?
Read MoreProject-Based Learning is a student-centred approach to learning that provides students with a real-world context for their learning and enables teachers to think more creatively about the syllabus and how it might be learned.
In the traditional unit, teachers will often lead a series of lectures, activities and quizzes before some form of assessment or end of unit test, followed by a fun project at the end. Project-Based Learning makes the project front and centre and is what drives the learning throughout the unit of work. The schools in our Network report that their students are more engaged, active participants in their work, they report improved academic results in Year 12, and ex-students report being snapped up by top universities and enterprises due to their experience in Project-Based Learning.
Read MorePrBL is the abbreviation for Problem-Based Learning and is the recommended pedagogy for mathematics within the New Tech Network. PrBL is a pedagogy in which the teacher starts the lesson with a real world problem, ideally authentic to a student's life. Tim Woodbine, Maths Coach for New Tech Network shares his vast experience of designing and implementing Problem-Based Learning into Maths Classrooms and tells you how to get started.
Read MoreAfter teaching shifted online in response to the global coronavirus pandemic, we reached out to our schools to find out how we could help. In a survey of around one thousand teachers across our Network, how to keep the learning student-centred online came up time and time again.
Read MoreCrafting projects that address real-world problems, that encourage students to work with and present to meaningful external partners and that make learning RELEVANT to the lives of the many students we teach is no mean feat. With our upcoming Virtual Workshop on ‘Authenticity in PBL’, we thought some of you might be interested in this articl
Read MoreExperienced PBL Coach and Director of School Development here at New Tech Network Australia, Brad Scanlon shares his 10 Steps to Changing Student Outcomes. Take a look below and…
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