Queensland Academy for Creative Industries

Clever, Creative, Global

A specialist State High School for Year 10 to 12

Welcome to the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries (QACI).Our aim is to be the world-class learning environment of choice for the aspirational creative generation.

Clever, Creative, Global

To do this we have to break free from the patterns of the past and draw from new influences, people and disciplines. We are telling our story, the story of Clever and Creative Students and the massive impact that they will have in the 21st Century Global Economy. Our learning and teaching environment is at the intersection of practice that is at the heart of creative industries:

•Knowledge •Creativity •Innovation •Enterprise •Product •New Forms •Design •The Arts

For us, they are a source of creation, inspiration, challenge and provocation. We are calling on these key emphases to create something fresh in education.

The 21st Century Global EconomyMembers of the 21st century economy share spaces where knowledge, creativity and innovation are key economic drivers and the raw materials for enterprise and entrepreneurship.The world is now flatter and we have the opportunity to see further than ever before. We share ideas with people from other sectors of knowledge, industries and countries.

Clever Creative Global

“Creative Industries include all sectors where design, content and creativity form the basis of competitive advantage on global economic markets.”J. Flew,21st Century Learners, 2005

Enterprise

Creative Industries are the linchpin of ever-expanding, dynamic markets

The Creative Industries operate at the intersection of the arts, business and technology. They leverage artistic creativity, entrepreneurship and technological innovation to create goods and services that are widely sought after and highly valued. They encompass the fields of performance, communications, design, media, publishing and information technology.

Creative Industries

They are central to the world we experience, the ideas we discuss and the innovations that shape our lives.

“While process demands precision, consistency and repetition; innovation calls for variation, failure and serendipity.”Deirdre Macken,The Australian Financial Review, 2007

Innovation

‘Innovation = new strategies

for new challenges’ Richard Florida

Human Creativity – the ultimate economic resourceWe are living in an era of rapid social, technological and economic change. Information, ideas and innovation power our world.It’s the time for creative responses to the questions of our time. New forms of work are calling for new sorts of skills and capabilities.

Clever students need to have their creativity valued and nurtured so they can drive the new economy.

“If services and human capital are the focus of future economies (rather than natural resources and land values), then creating and innovation are core assets.”Richard Florida,The Rise of the Creative Class, 2003

Creativity

Creativity is about breaking away

from your usual patterns to

imagine something fresh

The future world of work is a place of great opportunity for those with enterprise, flexibility and adaptability.Our graduates skills will allow them to move between, and within, careers. They will design and shape their career portfolios. Their commute will be global, not local.Some possible professions and areas of practice for our graduates are:• Design (all facets)• Architecture, environmental and urban planning• Electronic publishing and information design• Advertising and marketing• Law and commerce• Broadcast media, journalism and publishing• Performance and entertainment• International relations

Our graduates will reshape traditional careers and disciplines. They will create pathways not follow them.

Clever Careers

“A company’s most important asset isn’t raw materials, transport systems or political influence.It’screativecapital – simply put, an arsenal of creative thinkers whose ideas can be turned into valuable products and services.”Florida, R and Goodnight, J,Harvard Business Review

New forms

The winners are the ones whocanfindnewforms

Clever They are seeking a rich and rigorous academic curriculum and learning experiences that challenge their previous learning. They want to learn with like-minded peers and have an exchange of ideas with people who hold different sorts of expertise.Creative Our students demand an environment where the culture is designed to foster creativity, innovation and enterprise. Our students have demonstrated creative potential through Visual Arts, Film, Music, Design & Technology, Film and New Media and Theatre, and they wish to develop their skills in these areas.Global Our students see learning as borderless. They value ethics and social responsibility. They seek experiences of other cultures to enhance their understanding and perspectives.They think globally but act locally.

Like-mindsQACI attracts a diverse range of students from a variety of high schools. While there is not a typical person who is attracted to the Academy, they share similar attributes and areas of interest:

“Without tradition, artisaflockofsheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”Winston Churchill

The Arts

The arts nourish our creativity

and strengthen our capacities for innovation

Education is at the heart of global change and opportunity. Our Academy is equipping Queensland’s high-achieving students to thrive and lead in the 21st century. It is an age of great challenge but, also a time of tremendous opportunity. We are equipping students for these times with customised technologies, an innovative pedagogy and a new approach to learning of a creative and enterprise-based curriculum.

QACI is the catalyst for the new ways of seeing, knowing, doing and being that will underpin life in the 21st century.

Empowerment + Engagement = Extraordinary

“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released”Jean Houston

Product

We use creativity, imagination and

technical knowledge to create products

that satisfy human needs

A new approach to educationQACI provides a pathway for students who are seeking:• a rich and rigorous academic curriculum to

extend their learning • a community of like-minded peers and a flow

of ideas between people with different sorts of expertise

• an environment where the culture is one specifically designed to foster creativity, innovation and enterprise

• to develop their creative potential through Visual Arts, Film, Design & Technology, Music, Theatre Arts and Multimedia.

Learning at the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries will specifically focus on the elements for success in the 21st century. We call this our

Nexus Paradigm.

New standards Identifying and building on strengths and talent of individuals underpinned by a world-class academic curriculum. New momentum Increased learning networks, networks of networks and learning partnerships with university and industry leaders.New outlooks Connecting with the creative knowledge economy, planetism, ethics, enterprise. New attitudes Shared input, shared responsibility, new ways of doing business with and for students. New control Earned autonomy, self-management, peer recognition and support are intrinsic forms of motivation. New media Engagement with the digital world in new and creative ways.New realities Flexibility, adaptability, sustainability, creative capital and life balance.

“If our young people can learn to cross borders of all types – disciplinary borders, geographical borders, relational borders – they are more likely to be successful in the world of 21st century work.”Erica McWilliam, 2008, The Creative Workforce: How to launch young people into high-flying futures

The International BaccalaureateQACI is one of the three Queensland Academies.This cutting edge senior schooling initiative lets Queensland’s clever and creative students experience a new form of learning, campus life and study.The Academies all offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma as their core curriculum. The IB program offers a broad-spectrum, rigorous curriculum, while also presenting opportunities for specialty. The IB takes an international approach to education, developing a global citizenship perspective where students are inspired to create a better world through intercultural understanding and respect.

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Learner Profile

The aim of all IB programs is to develop internationally minded people who, recognising their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better and more peaceful world.IB learners strive to be:

• Inquirers• Knowledgeable• Critical Thinkers• Communicators• Risk Takers

• Principled• Caring• Open Minded• Well-Balanced• Reflective

Knowledge

Knowledge and ideas sustain the creative economy

Our Learning EnvironmentThe Academy learning ethos is one of Engagement and Empowerment resulting in an environment where the student emotionally and intellectually connects.Engagement through:• Rigorous curriculim – I.B.• Digital Immersion• Creative Industries• Artistic praxis• Cultural understanding• Borderless learningEmpowerment through:• High care• High collaboration• High challenge• High expectation

“Individual creativity is stimulated by the work, ideas and achievements of other people. We stand on the shoulders of others to see further.” Sir Ken Robinson,Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, 2001

MemorisationInstructionControl and commandComplianceImitationPerformance testingCompetitive individuals

Less

High concept – High touchProblem-solvingDirection and supportSelf-managementCo-creationRisk-takingLearning to learnDynamic teams

More

Our students have access to the sharpest minds in their fields and the most advanced tools of learning.The Queensland Academies are partnered by Queensland’s leading universities which deliver advanced experiences for our students. Our students are gaining real time and active access to commercial practices that are working within the digital and cyber environments. All of these relationships create new and dynamic opportunities for students and teachers. We learn from industry and hopefully industry will learn new things from us. It’s a union of like-minded curious people who are answering the challenges and questions of now and tomorrow.

Accelerated Real-time Learning

“The challenge of education in this century is to equip young people to aim further ahead of a faster target.”Mark Warschauer,The paradoxical future of digital learning

Design

Shaping and fashioning

the physical world for human purpose

Developing the IndividualOur graduates will be:Globalinfluencers Internationally aware pathmakers who lead with cultural sensitivity toward a future vision.Learning inspired Critical and motivated thinkers, responsive and receptive to challenge and dedicated to achievement.Entrepreneurial and enterprising Risk-takers who understand and value ideas and the possibilities they can open.Ideas architects Analytical problem-solvers, innovative and creative, making something concrete from their imaginations.Life-designers Self disciplined, resilient and well-rounded early adaptors; focused yet flexible.Ethically and socially responsive Principled and caring practitioners who in their work and lives display an awareness of self and others.

“We need more than anything to foster globally minded young people.”Richard Florida,The Rise of the Creative Class, 2003

The vision for the futureIt’s often said that education is the key to the future. It is. But a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away; turn it the other way and you release them.

In education as in business, it’s no longer enough to read, write and calculate. We won’t survive the future simply by doing better what we have done in the past.

In the future, we must learn to be clever and creative.

Clever, Creative, Global

We hope that you have been engaged and interested in the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries. It is a place for innovation, inquiry, ideas and inspiration and this publication should give you a sense of that.

Queensland Academy for Creative Industries Kelvin Grove Urban VillagePh: 07 3552 9333 Email: the.principal@qaci.eq.edu.au Web: www.qaci.eq.edu.au

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