The global standard in learning-by-doing educator professional development comes to Australia for the first time!
The Constructing Modern Knowledge institute is a life-changing educational experience for PK-12 educators and academics. Participants enjoy 4 days immersed in remarkable cross-curricular project development with modern materials and supported by a world-class faculty. Conversations with inspirational guest speakers punctuate the event.
Take off your teacher hat and put on your learner hat for a once-in-a-lifetime learning adventure sure to benefit your students for years to come.
Four luxurious days of learning through invention & collaboration.
Starting with the provocation, "What would you like to make?" educators often do the impossible and invent the future of education.
Respected international experts join legendary Australians to inform, inspire, and celebrate the power of educators.
Computing, 3D printing, electronics, wearable circuits, robotics, AI, digital embroidery, micro:bits, and traditional craft materials join forces as a medium for thinking about thinking.
There is simply no other professional event on earth like Constructing Modern Knowledge.
Since 2008, educators from around the globe have assembled at CMK for four intense days of learning-by-doing with a world-class faculty, mind-blowing guest speakers, cutting-edge technology, and a mountain of materials.
These educators often achieve the impossible and demonstrate the remarkable creativity, competence, and capability that may be found in classrooms.
Join us and learn why some educators have returned to Constructing Modern Knowledge as many as ten times!
“We need something like Constructing Modern Knowledge in every town and village.”
“If this is what learning can feel like, surely we all deserve to learn this way.”
The Constructing Modern Knowledge faculty is comprised of outstanding veteran educators with more than a decade's worth of experience leading CMK institutes in the United States
Expert guest speakers have been invited to provoke deep thinking and explore powerful ideas.
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The CMK model embraces heterogeneity and welcomes educators with lots and little technical fluency to learn together. You will be astonished by what can be accomplished and learned in just four days.
A playful attitude is far more essential than expertise at Constructing Modern Knowledge.
If you are concerned about your tech skills, we offer a pre-institute workshop, Introduction to Learning with Electronics, the day before the institute (11 August). During that workshop, you will develop the confidence to crush CMK.
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Education is growth and we are confident that every participant will learn with their colleagues at CMK. Experts will be challenged and newbies inspired!
Constructing Modern Knowledge Australia 2025 has the theme, “Roots, Worlds, and Microworlds.” This theme seeks to unify the guest speaker conversations rooting learning-by-doing, computing, and even artificial intelligence, in Piaget, progressive traditions, Papertian constructionism, and Australian ingenuity.
We will commemorate how Aussie educators invented 1:1 personal computing 35 years ago and celebrate how a state primary school brings the arts to life in an astonishing fashion.
Accomodation and travel advice is featured under the Venue & Lodging menu.
CMK at Westbourne Grammar is approximately 25km from the Melbourne CBD
Registration includes four day institute, guest speakers, all materials, lunch, and morning tea daily.
Constructing Modern Knowledge Australia is a partnership with Westbourne Grammar School, Truganina, Victoria Australia
Westbourne Grammar School Truganina, Victoria, Australia
Andrew Park Pavillion
Westbourne Grammar School
300 Sayers Road
Truganina, Victoria
Australia 3029
(03) 9731 9444
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