LATICE Symposium

Dr Kelli McGrawFaculty of Education – QUT

Email: kelli.mcgraw@qut.edu.auBlog: kellimcgraw.com

Affordances of the room

• Space to move• Flexible design• Digital resources &

environments on hand

Take away: you must change your pedagogy for these affordances to be maximised

Primordial learning spaces

• Camp Fire• Watering Hole• Cave

Take away: your classroom is not one homogenous space. Imperative to consider activities that purposefully use this space.

Inquiry learning models

Take away: inquiry learning tends to utilise individual work in ‘the cave’. PBL can guide your adoption of collaborative learning tasks.

• Inquiry learning (research based)

• Project based learning (‘PBL’) offers a different pedagogical direction

Final thoughtsUtilise group stationsOrganically draw on technologies –

physical & digital

More on PBL:Buck Institute for Educationhttp://www.bie.org/

Pedagogical patterns for digital technologies: QUT ‘DRAW’projecthttps://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/draw/Home