Stemiverse 0044 - Celinda Corsini on designing Project-based Learning

Summary:

Celinda is a passionate and innovative educator with a commitment to developing bold initiatives in education to equip students with the skills and competencies they need to thrive in our ever-changing world.

She is a blended learning expert, having conceptualised and developed flipped learning for the language classroom in isolation in 2011 by embracing 21st-century technologies and skills.

She is a Project-Based learning practitioner and had the privilege of receiving 12+ months of intensive mentoring in Project-Based Learning by a PBL expert from the world-renowned PBL School High Tech High, San Diego.

Her passion has inspired and continues to inspire her to design interdisciplinary programs that go well beyond the syllabus content and create challenging and authentic learning experiences about

- positive psychology

- prejudice

- social justice

- holograms

- book creation

- illustration

- disruptive museum experiences

- the purposeful use of social media

- and, digital technologies.

Celinda is currently working as an Inquiry Leader at St Luke's Catholic College, a next-generation learning community in Sydney's Marsden Park that is committed to designing and establishing the ‘new normal’ for preschool to post-school learning.

She believes that her role as an educator is to set up the conditions for deep, active, engaging, personalised, independent and collaborative, interest and strengths-based learning.

This is Stemiverse Podcast episode 44.

Show notes are available at https://www.txplore.com/blog/1921195/stemiverse0044-celinda-corsini