Rostrevor Magazine 2020-2021

Rostrevor Magazine 2020 - 2021 / Page 37 and collaborative, and decisions about solutions are student generated. Students communicate to share ideas and redesign their prototypes as needed. They control their own ideas and design their own investigations. 4. Learning involves students in productive teamwork. Helping students work together as a productive team is never an easy job. It becomes exponentially easier where teachers work together to implement teamwork, using the same language, procedures, and expectations for students. 5. Learning allows for multiple right answers and reframes failure as a necessary part of learning. The learning environment offers rich possibilities for creative solutions. When designing and testing prototypes, teams may flounder and fail to solve the problem. That’s okay. They are expected to learn from what went wrong and try again. Failure is considered a positive step on the way to discovering and designing solutions. The characteristics of effective STEM learning are present within all Junior and Middle Years Science learning areas as well as Design & Technology and to some extent the Digital Technologies. In the Senior Years, students may then wish to pursue more specialised STEM pathways in subjects such as Design, Technology & Engineering – Material Solutions, and Design, Technology & Engineering – Robotics and Electronic Systems. Congratulations to talented coder and web developer Joshua Polkinghorne (Year 10) who topped the leader board of the Web.Comp 2020 competition against students from around the world with a Perfect Score in the Advanced category. Under the tutelage of “Mr Vlad”, Joshua has mastered website development tools such as HTML, CSS and Java Script as well as the coding skills needed to develop games and other apps. Well done. Joshua Polkinghorne and Digital Technology Teacher Vlad Baclagian The Adelaide Crows “Footy STEM” program explores the use of maths, percentages, angles, distances and velocity in sport