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Creative Lab: Capturing a day of teaching and learning

On 2 May 2015, The Cube hosted Creative Lab, a two-day professional development program designed to connect educators, curriculum writers and academics to STEAM learning experiences through hands-on workshops. Conceived by the Queensland Museum in partnership with QUT The Cube, the program provided a platform to further the…

Creative Lab: from the perspective of… Jess Schofield

Pre-service teacher Jess Schofield shares her experience at Creative Lab, held at The Cube and Queensland Museum last month. Jess: The Creative Lab program at QUT The Cube was a chance for educators from various fields to collaborate on ways to implement STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and…

Creative Lab: from the perspective of… Leighann Ness Wilson

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be revisiting Creative Lab from the perspectives of those who participated in or facilitated workshops. This week, interior designer and pre-service teacher Leighann Ness Wilson, a participant at the program, will share her thoughts on Creative Lab. Leighann: The Creative Lab workshops at QUT The…

Teaching STEAM: Inventive Toolkits for Inventive Thinking

Since 2013, The Cube has worked in partnership with the QUT Faculty of Education to provide professional learning opportunities for pre-service teachers. The Cube provides a number of programs that connect pre-service teachers with the STEAM learning and teaching framework. Jessica Schofield, a QUT pre-service teacher and Public…

STEAM in Action: Implementing STEAM in the classroom

The concept of integrating arts into STEM teaching has been gaining momentum in classrooms around the country, as teachers are beginning to adopt the creative, interactive approach of STEAM. Terry Deen, teacher at Kelvin Grove State College in Queensland and 2014 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Fellow, talks us through his approach…