Don’t Feed Cheese to Lactose Intolerant Volcano Gods

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McAlister, Chris and Hills, Catherine. 2023. "Don’t Feed Cheese to Lactose Intolerant Volcano Gods." Janssen, V (ed.) 26th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2023). New South Wales, Australia 20 - 22 Mar 2023 Australia. Association of Public Authority Surveyors New South Wales.
Paper/Presentation Title

Don’t Feed Cheese to Lactose Intolerant Volcano Gods

Presentation TypePaper
AuthorsMcAlister, Chris and Hills, Catherine
EditorsJanssen, V
Journal or Proceedings TitleProceedings of the 26th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2023)
Journal Citationpp. 26-36
Number of Pages11
Year2023
PublisherAssociation of Public Authority Surveyors New South Wales
Place of PublicationAustralia
Web Address (URL) of Conference Proceedingshttps://www.apas.org.au/files/conferences/2023/APAS2023-proceedings.pdf
Conference/Event26th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2023)
Event Details
26th Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS2023)
Parent
Association of Public Authority Surveyors Conference (APAS)
Delivery
Online
Event Date
20 to end of 22 Mar 2023
Event Location
New South Wales, Australia
Abstract

This paper looks at the many times we’ve been told “that won’t work because we’ve always done it this way” in education. Which we ignored, largely because we weren’t the ones that tried and, more importantly, because sometimes it’s just about feeding cheese to lactose intolerant volcano gods and waiting to see what happens. From monster trucks to escape rooms, dinosaurs to scavenger hunts, and X-Men to Lego, we take a journey through some of the weird and wonderful ways that we’ve tried to make surveying and engineering education not just more authentic, but also engaging without compromising curriculum. In some cases we’ve had success, and in others we’ve taken a few attempts to get it right. And in some cases, we’ve ended up needing to convince security guards at international airports that our students are honestly doing an assignment about zombies.

KeywordsSurveying education, students, pedagogy, first-year experience.
Contains Sensitive ContentDoes not contain sensitive content
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020390113. Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy
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