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In this episode, Dr. Peter Dalmaris and Marcus Schappi talk with Simone Maciel.
Simone is a creative individual who revels in educating people. Having graduated from university with a Bachelor in Arts and a Diploma of Education (secondary), Simone spent the next seven years teaching Drama, Music, English, History, Religious Education and Photographic and Digital Media.
Her passion for technology imbued itself in her teaching pedagogy and Simone co-led a successful and creative one-to-one laptop program in her time as an educator. Her areas of expertise include movie making, photography, public speaking, and music integration. Simone has spent the past seventeen years involved in musical theatre, and she draws on this experience in her teaching practice.
In 2012, Simone resigned from her full-time classroom teaching role to pursue a career in teacher training and currently runs Professional Development workshops for MAC1 on a plethora of areas, of which the most popular has become STEM with a specific focus on coding and robotics using Apple Technologies. Her focus is to redefine purpose and authenticity in teaching instruction and at the core of her philosophy is a centered approach to ethics in coding.
This is Stemiverse Podcast episode 26.
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Show Notes
- [spp-timestamp time=”00:00″] Introduction – Introducing Simone Maciel
- [spp-timestamp time=”02:53″] Simone talks about her background
- [spp-timestamp time=”09:46″] Difference of STEM in religious education as opposed to other types of education
- [spp-timestamp time=”10:47″] The ethics of coding and professional training for teachers that provides the big picture context for the necessity and purpose of coding
- [spp-timestamp time=”13:34″] The most important question: “Why am I teaching this?”
- [spp-timestamp time=”15:22″] Teachers’ responses to the “why” question
- [spp-timestamp time=”16:30″] Simone’s response to the “why” in teaching drones: The humanitarian aspect
- [spp-timestamp time=”19:32″] Drones is where scientists have been able to source the bulk of the knowledge we have about the solar system
- [spp-timestamp time=”19:59″] Is STEM Education in general, a type of education primed to asking such “why” questions?
- [spp-timestamp time=”21:39″] STEM Education’s place in times of financial, political and social crises
- [spp-timestamp time=”25:13″] STEM-style Education shines in equipping students with an increased capacity to solve more complex problems
- [spp-timestamp time=”27:14″] Simone describes the process for preparing the Professional Development curriculum at MAC1
- [spp-timestamp time=”29:34″] About MAC1
- [spp-timestamp time=”31:13″] What would a simple way be, for a teacher or school, to introduce Programming & Engineering concepts to its students?
- [spp-timestamp time=”37:32″] Sphero and Swift Playgrounds
- [spp-timestamp time=”41:25″] What is SWIFT and why is it so important?
- [spp-timestamp time=”42:52″] Is what we call STEM dominated by Robots and Programming Languages?
- [spp-timestamp time=”43:42″] Is the market overloaded by robots? Do sciences and mathematics fall behind in products marketed for education?
- [spp-timestamp time=”47:59″] How should new Educators get prepared for teaching STEM? Self-educate, don’t try to learn everything, focus on pedagogy and more useful advice by Simone
- [spp-timestamp time=”51:06″] Teacher Development and Education in an ideal world
- [spp-timestamp time=”51:51″] Simone’s opinion on what Australia is doing right in Education
- [spp-timestamp time=”54:59″] Should we get rid of exams?
- [spp-timestamp time=”56:13″] Professional Development course suggestions by Simone: Harvard’s Introduction to Computer Science on edX, engaging with other like-minded teachers and in Twitter’s #aussieED chats
- [spp-timestamp time=”56:50″] Simone’s presentation at Edutech: “To code or not to code, that is the question. Looking at coding from the perspective of an English and Drama teacher”
- [spp-timestamp time=”59:05″] Classroom innovators who share their content on Twitter
- [spp-timestamp time=”01:00:50″] Book recommendations by Simone: Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly
- [spp-timestamp time=”01:01:54″] The Apple Teacher Platform: Digital resources with programs and classroom activities
- [spp-timestamp time=”01:02:32″] Simone’s Contact Information: Email: [email protected], Twitter: @mac1_education