HackED
Events Services - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
HackED Details
HackED is a first-of-its-kind event, where educators across subject disciplines, school contexts and experience levels come together to create innovative, cross curricular learning experiences for the learners of today - the leaders of tomorrow.Inspired by the hackathon format commonly used in software engineering and design-based disciplines to create new workable ideas such as the "Facebook Like" button, HackED was created in 2021 by a group of passionate preservice educators. Attendees can expect to engage in keynote speeches, workshops, networking opportunities, and eventually use a variety of disciplines and pedagogical approaches to compose relevant and impactful units of work that they can take to their current or future classrooms!The main purpose of HackED is to showcase, share and celebrate the diverse range of innovative pedagogical approaches, methodologies and expertise that arise from collaboration across the education sector. We aim to empower educators across subject areas and school contexts to play with the potential of pedagogy, build a collaborative community of teachers, and offer an opportunity to imagine what Australian education can look like.Teams of three to four educators will typically have one day to design and build a learning roadmap that incorporates their pedagogy, content knowledge, expertise and the theme of the event - to build something awesome! It could be a new approach to a stale topic, a unique cross-curricular unit of work, an experiment of classroom space, and really anything that explores the potential of education.All the judges need to see is that it takes your imagined students from Point A to Point B, in whatever form that may look like. However, whilst hackathons are a competition, and there are of course prizes to be won - ultimately, the point is not the prizes, but the pedagogy!
