One of Australia’s leading education experts will provide a thought-provoking insight into the future of schooling at a 2020 Vision free public lecture during The University of Queensland’s first UQ Teaching and Learning Week from November 18-22.
Professor Bob Lingard, the Acting Head of the UQ School of Education and the Chair of the Queensland Studies Authority, will speak on Educating the Future at Mayne Hall at the University’s St Lucia campus on Monday, November 18 at 6.30pm.
Professor Lingard will speculate on the way schools should develop to better meet the needs of all students and future society.
He will discuss issues of teachers and their work, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, schools as organisations, schools` relationships with communities in the context of the desired and changing purposes of schooling.
Also featured during the presentation will be a Teaching Innovation Showcase.
Some of the leading lecturers and academics at the University will deliver short presentations on a variety of innovative teaching and learning projects underway.
They include:
* Talking about watching. Presenters - Dr Margot Brereton, Dr Stephen Viller and Jared Donovan. This presentation shows how Video Card Game and wiki-web technology is used to engage Information Technology students to develop observational skills. These skills are needed for designers to develop IT products that are consistent with the subtleties of human interactions.
* Bright Minds. Presenters - Associate Professor Susan Hamilton and Dr Paula Myatt. Bright Minds is a UQ initiative designed to attract more high-achieving students into science careers, particularly in the new biologies and biotechnology. The project includes a range of innovative education products that will open the minds of young people to the possibilities offered by science.
* Project Woolly Mammoth. Presenter -Valerie Powell. What do woolly mammoths, flexible assessment and increased student satisfaction have in common? This presentation outlines a popular problem-based learning exercise designing animals to fit specific habitats. Students are given the opportunity to choose their preferred assessment and have some control over their course design.
* Integrating Technology into Courses. Presenter - Professor Stephen Gray. This presentation will include a short demonstration of the Interactive Finance CD that is being used in a number of UQ Business School courses. The presentation also will discuss how this new product is used to supplement in-class activities, and address some lessons that have been learned about how best to integrate technology into these courses.
Another highlight of UQ Teaching and Learning Week will be the announcement of the winners of the University’s Teaching Excellence, Research Supervision and Enhancement in Student Learning awards at Customs House on Thursday, November 21.
It will be the first time the University has presented two $20,000 Enhancement in Student Learning teaching awards for teams, programs and organisational units.
Instituted by the University Academic Board, the awards recognise and promote excellence in the learning environment and the provision of student services.
Funded by the University and the Alumni Association, the awards for Excellence in Teaching were established in 1988.
UQ created an Australian first in 2000 when it introduced official university awards for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision.
The eight winners of the awards for Excellence in Teaching and the awards for Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision will each be presented with $10,000.
For more information contact UQ Communications (phone 07 3365 3367).
For bookings to the 2020 Vision free public lecture telephone 07 3365 3367 or email marketing.communications@uq.edu.au.
