By Stephen Anderson
The podcast currently has 67 episodes available.
Welcome to the Bridge Building Podcast: From Technology to the Trades! In this episode, Stephen Anderson sits down with Phillip Murdoch, a fellow design and technology teacher who is on a mission to foster collaboration in education.
About This Episode: When Stephen returned to teaching in 2017, he noticed a significant issue: teachers often work in isolation, contrary to the collaborative learning environments we aim to create for our students. Phillip Murdoch is tackling this problem head-on with his podcast, where he interviews fascinating individuals about various aspects of teaching.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
How collaboration among teachers can enhance student learning
Insights into the role and perception of design and tech teachers in school communities
Phillip’s journey and experiences as a design and technology teacher
Listen to Phillip Murdoch's Podcast: Phillip Murdoch's Podcast
Connect with Phillip Murdoch on LinkedIn: Phillip Murdoch on LinkedIn
About Our Guest: Phillip Murdoch is a passionate educator and podcaster who is dedicated to transforming the educational landscape. His podcast features in-depth conversations with educators and thought leaders, aiming to inspire and promote collaborative practices in teaching.
In This Episode: We continue our focus on creativity by featuring an inspiring conversation with Steve Muir, a Humanities teacher who is breaking the mold in Hervey Bay. Despite the stereotype that Humanities is all about sitting and reading, Steve is doing things differently. He's using iPads and augmented reality to make history come alive for his students.
What You’ll Learn:
How Steve uses augmented reality to create immersive learning experiences, like giving students a virtual tour of the Colosseum while they walk around the school oval.
Why Steve’s claim that he’s “not a creative person” is something we should all take note of especially considering the incredibly creative work he’s doing.
The importance of embracing creativity in teaching, even when you're not sure something will work.
Episode Highlights:
You can find Steve here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrstevemuir7/ Here is a look at reality composer: https://www.youtube.com/watch
Over the course of this year I have come to the belief that our subject area if done well is a haven for the generation of creativity, and the concern we have is that when training our teachers there is little or no emphasis on how to teach this creativity or design thinking.
Today, I am talking to Jamie Gerlach from 4C transformative learning and I love how he explains it. Creativity as a process. Creativity is a process, when you think of it like that all sorts of possibilities arise.
Today, I am honoured to be talking to a simply sensational teacher who began her life as a automotive designer and what can I say she is doing some great things for her students. I ran across her on linked in where she was telling of a method she uses to show how important prototyping is when designing. The conversation runs at a few tangents, from the marshmellow challenge to Elon Musk but, I am sure there are some gems in here for you. Prototyping is one of the things, I think many do badly. Megan and I discuss just why that might be. I hope you enjoy this as much as I have.
Welcome Megan Detering from Canberra Girls Grammar.
Today, I am speaking with Terri Quinn, now Terri is the program manager for the Technologies Teacher Pathway Program. Today she will share a bit about the program and how she is taking steps to help fix the teacher shortage we have in this state Rosie. If
Right off the back of a very successful Datta conference and quite frankly I am seriously excited about the future of education, I have the pleasure of spending some time with two sensational educators. Scott Millar and Megan King will spearhead a conference in July called the “Future of Education Summit” and you are just about to hear that they base this future on giving our students access to and the ability to practice and use those 21st-century skills. And one of the staples of their methods is design thinking.
Now I do give Scott a bit of a hard time because, well he is just way too young to have the amount of smarts that he is carrying around and you do have to call that out. But seriously, when you realise that the business he is running started as a Business/design project in high school you will see him as a true success arising from our area. I didn’t ask him which school he went to and I should have because it sounds like it could be the next place for me.
So please enjoy this slightly longer-than-usual conversation about the future of education and the summit which is being held at Canterbury College on the 25th of July 2024.
Welcome to the Bridge Building Podcast from Technology to the Trades. I am Stephen Anderson and this is session number 61. Well, it's just one week to go and today I bring you the last two, of the speakers that I've been able to track down for a chat. First up we have Rashan Senanayake talking about one of the conference favourites. One of the hot topics around the world as he puts it, but this time from a different angle. He'll be looking at general AI as it relates to design. Next up we have a teacher coming to us straight from prison. No, that's not true, but she is from the school that has been built on the old Boga Road site at Dutton Park.
And her job this year is to show us how to use one of the most common teaching tools. And one that if we were to be honest with ourselves, we all use pretty badly. Nadiya Sten on using PowerPoint, using it efficiently, and not just for us, for the kids too. Two sensational teachers sharing with our community. You can meet both Rishan and Nadia at exactly the same time, at exactly the same place, one on each day. That is the first session in Room A1 on Thursday for Nadia and Friday for Rishan. This is the last of this speaker series for this year's conference at the Brisbane Convention Centre on the 13th and 14th of June.
We are getting really close now. Just two weeks to go until this years annual DATTA conference and today it is all about engineering. I get to speak to a couple of really smart teachers about the challenges of teaching senior engineering. First up is Philip Canalise who is leading a tutorial on how to use inventor to run all of the numbers and create digital prototypes and second we have Rowan Cahill who will be leading a discussion for teacher of engineering.
Two sensational teachers sharing with our community. You can meet both Rowan and Phillip on the first day and at different times so if you are an engineering teacher you can get to meet them both. I’ll be back next week with the last of the speakers at this years conference at the Brisbane convention centre from the 13th to the 14th of June.
I just love this time of year. Running up to our annual conference I get to chat with some the most passionate teachers about something that is near and dear to their heart. It is invigorating, it is inspirational, sometimes a little intimidating but I wouldn’t miss it for the world. My guest today is Tim Osbourne who fits neatly into the inspirational and mildly intimidating category, is sadly is speaking at the same time as me, so I am looking for a volunteer to carry one of my cameras into the room and record it for me. The title – Design Thinking – It’s the how that puts the power in the process got my mind whirling straight away and then talking to the man I found myself just nodding along, agreeing and an ah ha moment or two. Have a listen, you will hear. At 1.55 on the first day of the conference you will get to see Tim In B3. I’ll be back next week with more of the sensational presenters that will be speaking this year at the Brisbane convention centre from the 13th to the 14th of June.
As I record this, we have about one month to go. It has been and will be my pleasure to speak with many of the presenters at this year’s conference and today I am really in a bit of a quandary because these two speakers are not only had my absolutely rapt attention, but they are both talking at the exact same time and that is also the same time I have promised to attend another presentation. At 1.55 on the last day of the conference there is just a smorgasbord of sensational speakers. And cheers to the committee for doing it because you would have to be a dope to want to leave after lunch like the really unattractive man that sits next to me in my staffroom tries to every year. First, we have Leanne Cameron from James Cook who is going to lead us through the beautiful things we can do with AI that will make our teaching so much better, enjoyable, easier, and exciting. Then we get to chat with Brett Dascombe who is already doing so many of the things we all or at least I dream of doing with my classes. And he tells me he will be bringing some of his virtual reality gear with him. Now these two talks are called How might general AI help you as a teacher and Geography complimenting Design through real world projects. And again, if you are silly enough to leave before the last session you are really missing out. I’ll be back next week with more of the sensational presenters that will be speaking this year at the Brisbane convention centre from the 13 th to the 14th of June.
And remember the 2024 Teacher Excellence Awards are looking for nominations right now so look to your left and look to your right. Because you may be sitting right next to someone who deserves to be applauded. There are two awards the Design and Technology teacher of the year and the contribution to design and technology education award for that person who is not a teacher but still does great things for our teaching area.
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