Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education
More about ELSA - Early Learning STEM Australia
https://elsa.edu.au/
Introduction to ELSA - with Luke Carroll: https://vimeo.com/365204653
STEM Education Research Centre (SERC):
https://serc.edu.au/
STEM Practices
https://serc.edu.au/stem-practices/
Experience, Represent, Apply Framework
https://serc.edu.au/experience-represent-apply-era-heuristic/
STEM Booklist:
https://serc.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/STEM-Booklist_Publishing-040518.pdf
More about Kym Simoncini
Kym Simoncini is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education at the University of Canberra.
Kym is a key part of the Early Learning STEM Australia (ELSA) project team. She is responsible for the Families’ app and educator professional learning. Kym has also written four companion picture books to be used with the four children’s apps. These books focus on patterns, map making, encoding and decoding, and investigations.
Kym regularly delivers professional learning for preschool and early childhood teachers centred on STEM in the early years. Much of Kym’s other research is located in Papua New Guinea, investigating family learning, elementary education and play.
More about Matt Bacon
Matt works in the STEM Education Research Centre at the University of Canberra. He is the research project manager for the Early Learning STEM Australia (ELSA) program.
He has over 17 years experience in higher education working in technology-enhanced learning, educational design, user experience design and curriculum development.
He has worked on research projects in augmented and virtual reality, learning spaces and design thinking.
About the FizzicsEd Podcast
With interviews with leading science educators and STEM thought leaders, this science education podcast is about highlighting different ways of teaching kids within and beyond the classroom. It's not just about educational practice & pedagogy, it's about inspiring new ideas & challenging conventions of how students can learn about their world!
https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/
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