Australian School Innovation
in Science, Technology and Mathematics (ASISTM) Project, funded through the
Department of Education, Science and Training
Introduction
This project aims to assist design and technology teachers in remote schools
to develop projects which involve students in relevant innovative designing
and making activities. Activities will be designed which are stimulating and
appropriate to both the context and the students. They will be developed and
then trialled in schools, and then distributed to teachers across Australia
through a website by early in 2009.
D&T teachers from each of the five schools involved in the project (Senior
High Schools in Headland, Kalgoorlie, Karratha, Kununurra and Tom Price) will
participate in the workshops. It is anticipated that the focus of the teaching
activities will be lower secondary.
The project will involve three two-day workshops in 2008, one in each of terms
1, 2 or 3 and 4. The teachers will work with an industrial designer and an
educator during the workshops. In between each workshop the teachers will trial
in their schools the activities they have designed, and then report back at
the next workshop.
Project Director: Dr P John Williams
Project Manager: Lorraine Kershaw
The project is managed through the Centre for Schooling and Learning Technologies (CSaLT) in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University. The project director is John Williams working with Michael Dixon and with Lorraine Kershaw as the project manager.
There is a steering committee
comprising representatives from the Design
and Technology Teachers Association (DATTA),
Catholic Education Office, Association of Independent
Schools,
and the W.A. Department of Education and Training.
Updated: November 14, 2008 by Associate Professor Paul NEWHOUSE (Director, Centre for Schooling and Learning Technologies, Edith Cowan University)