Good Shepherd Lutheran School Para Vista officially opened South Australia’s first independent primary school Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) facility on Friday 2 March. Known as ‘The Ark’, this new centre for discovery and innovation was made possible by the South Australian Government’s investment in STEM. The facility also includes an outdoor classroom (‘The…
A couple of weeks ago, St Paul Lutheran School hosted a Connected Schools Gifted and Talented workshop on STEM. Miss Rebecca Mattner challenged students to protect an egg on its descent from the library balcony. In teams, students had to weigh up and design a prototype parachute that would ensure the egg didn’t break but…
While the government has an educational focus nationally on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths), people may think about it as a political ‘hot potato’. At Connected Schools, we believe in the merit and authenticity of the STEM approach to learning. With the understanding that children learn best through making connections across many learning areas to their…
P!nk is full of character; P!nk teaches, P!nk learns…P!nk is a humanoid robot. “The ‘magic’ of P!nk enthuses students to collaboratively create technical solutions aligned with numeracy, literacy and the new Digital Technology curriculum. More than anything….P!nk is fostering critical and creative thinking, collaborative problem solving and computational thinking – all essential skills and dispositions…