MyPlace is a comprehensive exploration of our current world. It encourages students to find their place today and where they want to be tomorrow.Our students’ immediate future will be unlike anything we have experienced:

• The World Wide Web is set to morph into a personalised, WiFi-delivered, digital aura that hovers over our students, promising an endless stream of mesmerizing games, music, movies, and social networking opportunities. Why wouldn’t they want to “amuse themselves to death?”

• The “World is Flat,” declares Thomas Friedman, which suggests that all our graduates will enter a global workforce where they will both compete and collaborate with tens of millions of highly motivated and educated peers from countries like China and India.

• The geopolitical adventures of recent years promise decades of uncertainty and tension. How Australia chooses to participate in our region and globally will challenge our students values and courage.

• Emerging changes in climate seem poised to radically alter the global landscape, affecting agriculture, commerce, tourism, water supplies and the very viability of many populations. Can we plan, adapt or merely survive?

Students will engage in a year-long exploration that seeks to help them find their place in this changing world. We hope that they can make inspired choices about how to use their school years as well as venture into their adult lives with confidence and enthusiasm.

For additional information and background, see:

• The MyPlace Project Main Web site
• Paths for Teachers
• CEQ-ALL