3 episodes
Activation: Youth Entrepreneurship in the Classroom Future Anything
-
- Education
Have you ever wondered what youth entrepreneurship looks, feels, and sounds like in the classroom?
Are you curious about the successes and potential sinkholes for teachers and students?
Welcome to Activation: Future Anything Activate in Action.
Here we sit down with our Activate Alumni, educators just like you, who have delivered our curriculum embedded entrepreneurship program at their schools.
We unpack the changes, challenges, and choices they have made to build real-world and enterprise learning opportunities for their young people.
Grab a cup of your favorite liquid and settle in as we dive into Activate in Action.
-
Episode 3: Fiona Pennisi- Mitchell
Fiona Pennisi Mitchell is a teacher at Marsden State High School in Queensland and this year was a finalist in the 2020 Australian Educator Awards. She's been involved in delivering Future Anything's Activate program in her classrooms for several years. Here, she talks to Future Anything's Nicole Dyson to unpack the changes, challenges, and choices she has made to contextualise Activate for Marsden SHS's young people.
-
Episode 2: Vanessa Noonan
Vanessa Noonan is passionate about digital technology. She has geared her tertiary education, professional development projects, and recent work experience towards a career in this rapidly growing field and is well known within the community of digital pedagogy teachers. Vanessa has had the fortune of being inducted into the area of digital media, technology, and ICT integration by international leaders and is certified by the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Teaching to Standards with New Technologies.
-
Episode 1: Chris Gauthier
Chris Gauthier is Head of Pedagogy and Languages at Springfield Central SHS in Brisbane and is passionate about all those skills that we talk about in education that we rarely see in action. So, he created his own Year 9 subject called Enterprise which centers around solving global issues.