SPEAKERS
Murder under the Microscope: Extending our digital horizons
Catherine Nielsen
Murder under the Microscope (MuM) presents a new model for learning and teaching adapted for a generation of young people who increasingly demand and use high-speed internet and multimedia as part of their everyday life. What MuM is modelling is no less than the future of teaching and learning. (Mark Treadwell) This was a comment about Murder under the Microscope (MuM) in the most recent evaluation report. The report is based on a series of interviews and surveys of students and teachers who participated in the Murder under the Microscope 2009 project.
Evaluator, Mark Treadwell
- found most teachers believe that an inquiry learning approach to education, as in MuM, is far more engaging and positive for students and allows them to build their knowledge around the information they access.
This is a qualitative departure from programs that require knowledge retention only. The report concludes that, given the current trends in the development of National Broadband Network and the new Australian curriculum, education needs to be re-cast as collaborative, dynamic, team-orientated and inquiry-learning focussed, as in the MuM project.
The presentation will demonstrate this and explain how MuM utilises the benefits made possible by a NBN now and into the future. MuM is available to all schools in Australia and overseas and runs from April to June each year.
 | Catherine Nielsen's Biography Catherine Nielsen started her career as an English/History teacher in Sydney. Her interests and skills in educational technology lead to opportunities for designing and developing online resources for many curriculum areas. She has worked for the last five years at the NSW Department of Education and Training's Center for Learning Innovation were she currently manages the production of a variety of interactive, online learning resources. |
