DAY ONE - Wednesday 30th May 2012
7:30 Registration and refreshments
9:00 Opening remarks from the Chair
9:10 INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTES: Reimagining learning and the role of an education technology leader
Over the past 20 years society has moved to a more participatory culture where information and expertise is increasingly less hierarchical and society is more participatory. Yet most educational systems are still based on an outdated industrial age model. Let's reimagine what education can be in a world where learning is no longer confined to four walls and seven bells.
- Learn how school systems around the world are creating environments that are more participatory, collaborative, engaging and - most importantly - better at enabling each learner to move at their own pace
- Rethinking vision, reallocating resources and redefining policies to shift from a print to digital education environment
- Defining the skills you, the education technology leader, need to transform learning
Keith Krueger
CEO
The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
10:10 From staffroom to classroom to home - Why the time has come for on-demand IT
Today’s students are growing up in the digital age and expect access to resources from a variety of devices. At the same time, educators are seeking to update classrooms and bring in more technically advanced learning options. The time has come to find the right approach to meet the expectations of all stakeholders without having to compromise. Join VMware as we:
- Investigate how virtualisation and the automation of IT has transformed the delivery of core IT services in Australian Education to provide a cost-effective, simplified model
- Discuss how other institutions have started on this journey and the tangible short term benefits
- Consider where to next for datacenter and desktop services - a look at what the future holds
Asanga Wanigatunga
Senior Systems Engineer
VMware
10:55 Morning tea and exhibition viewing
11:25 INTERNATIONAL ADDRESS: Investing in secure education architecture
- A look at how Kristin School built a network for the next generation of users and applications
- Safe, secure and as open as possible - How identity and application-aware technology supports teaching and learning
- Maximising ICT resources, enforcing good digital citizenship and other lessons learned along the way
Jason MacDonald
IT Director
Kristin School
12:40 Networking lunch and exhibition viewing
1:40 INTERACTIVE SESSION: BYOD Schemes: Pandora's Box or the Holy Grail? A look at the what's, why’s and how’s of education's latest trend
- What are the real benefits that a BYOD scheme can offer and how can we effectively realise them?
- Blurring the lines between home and school - Why mutual respect and responsibility are key to a BYOD scheme’s success.
- Student’s choice or school’s? - Balancing device diversity with effective management
Martin Levins
IT Director
The Armidale School (Tasmania)
2:40 Multiple people, multiple places, multiple platforms – A lens into simplifying a complicated world
- Systems interoperability - What is it and why should I care?
- ‘Who we are’ before 'what we do' - Why identity is the first step to personalisation into the Cloud
- The story so far - Exploring real examples of interoperability in action and a look at what’s yet to come...
Daniel Ingvarson
Program Lead - Projects and Architecture
The National Schools Interoperability Program (NSIP)
3:10 Afternoon tea and exhibition viewing
3:40 Creating a sustainable community culture
- The role of IT leadership in adopting sustainable technologies across the campus
- Incorporating sustainable practices into the curriculum
- Using technology to monitor, educate and embed the sustainable culture
Kathryn Priol
IT Director
John Paul College (Queensland)
<4:10 CASE STUDY: Mount St Benedict College - the journey to delivering user-centric computing with VMware
Like all schools today, Sydney’s Mt Saint Benedict College continually face the challenge of how to cost effectively utilise technology to deliver education. In recent times, they have faced the added pressure of rolling out and managing the One2One Program (1 laptop per student).
As a key component of their strategy to manage these challenges, Mount St Benedict’s have experienced great success with the virtualization of their server environment with VMware, and have recently been investigating how Desktop Virtualization could improve the end user computing service that they provide to staff and students.
In this session we will discuss their experiences so far and hear how they are now in the process of planning and evaluating the rollout of ‘Vmware View’ to all students and staff at the College.
Attend this session to learn how Mount St Benedict are;
- Using VMware’s virtualization solutions to enable them to support the teaching and learning requirements of today’s users
- Working towards delivering a user-centric model of computing
- Seeing REAL benefits in allowing users to access data and applications whenever, wherever and however they want.
Mark Sullivan
ICT Manager
Mount St Benedict College
4:40 INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE: Meeting student expectations - why we need to change our approach to the use and management of technology in schools
Students no longer see technology as something special, but rather as an everyday part of life. The question has now become not what technology we use, but how we use it with students. If we are to continue to use technology to engage them effectively, we need to relax the traditional ‘lock and block’ approach and embrace the world they live in.
- Forgetting the traditional - Why social media, YouTube and more are no longer distractions to learning
- Remembering our responsibilities - The changing role of a school in a student’s everyday cybersafety
- Finding the right balance between open and closed
Stephen Heppell
CEO
Heppell.net
5:40 Closing remarks from the Chair
5:45 End of Day One
5:45 Join us for networking drinks
DAY TWO - Thursday 31st May 2012
7:30 Registration and refreshments
9:00 Opening remarks from the Chair
9:05 Understanding the educational software systems of today, and the challenges and opportunities they present for tomorrow
Globally, the number of different educational software systems in use is vast - but, regardless of provider, the functions they need to perform from one school to the next are the same, as are the challenges they present.
Join us as we look at the model of systems used in a typical school and consider;
- How do they work together?
- Who manages them?
- Who uses them, and how are users managed?
- What is the user experience, and is it what your users expect?
- What difference do they make to your organisation, and how can you quantify it to you Senior Leadership team?
In this session, we would like to share with you what our Independent, Systemic and Jurisdictional customers are telling us, and how we plan to support them moving in to the future.
Simon Jones
Senior Manager
Civica Education
INDUSTRY SEMINARS
Between 9:55am to 1:05pm, delegates have the option of attending 16 different breakout sessions (some of which are repeated) or using the time to explore the exhibition, catch up with colleagues from all around Australia and/or meet inspirational solution providers.
Seminars are designed to provide delegates with an opportunity to hear from industry in an intimate learning environment to promote facilitated discussion and networking.
Use the table below to help you decide which Sessions you would like to attend and then indicate on your registration form (remember - you may return and modify your registration at a later date):
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Session Name |
Sponsored By |
9.55 -
10.35am |
ES1: Delivering BYOD in a secured environment
Room: G05 [ more details ] |
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ES2: Simplifying Business Continuity
Room: G01 [ more details ] |
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ES3: Helping Build Safer Schools with IP Surveillance Solutions
Room: G02 [ more details ] |
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ES4: Helping Build Safer Schools with IP Surveillance Solutions
Room: G06 [ more details ] |
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| 10.45 - 11.25am |
ES5: Collaborative Learning for 1-to-1 Programs
Room: G05 [ more details ] |
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ES6: From start to finish - investigating successful strategies for lifecycle management
Room: G01 [ more details ] |
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ES7: Efficient User Management System for the education sectors
Room: G02 [ more details ] |
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ES8: NSIP Roundtable Discussions (max 10 capacity)
Room: G06 [ more details ] |
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| 11.25 Morning tea and exhibition viewing |
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| 11.55 -12.35 |
ES9: Managing data, identities and access in the edusystem of tomorrow (Please note - this is an extended session)
Room: G05 [ more details ] |
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ES10: Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
Room: G01 [ more details ] |
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ES11: IT in Private Australian Schools - Plans and Predictions
Room: G02 [ more details ] |
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ES12: NSIP Roundtable Discussions (max 10 capacity)
Room: G06 [ more details ] |
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| 12.45 -1.25 |
ES13: Managing data, identities and access in the edusystem of tomorrow (Please note - this is an extended session)
Room: G05 [ more details ] |
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ES14: Delivering BYOD in a secured environment
Room: G01 [ more details ] |
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ES15: From start to finish - investigating successful strategies for lifecycle management
Room: G02 [ more details ] |
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ES16: NSIP Roundtable Discussions (max 10 capacity)
Room: G06 [ more details ] |
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1:25 Networking lunch and exhibition viewing
2:25 KEYNOTE
From Cottage to Enterprise: a strategic response to supporting learning and teaching in today’s world
In using 21st century tools to enhance learning and teaching, school leaders and administrators need to understand the demands of today’s world and the needs of today’s learners.
- Engaging the learning community - Understanding the stakeholders in modern education
- From isolation to collaboration - A look at why we must forge lasting partnerships with industry, business and beyond
- Understanding the role of the IT leader in the 21st century school
Greg Whitby
Executive Director of Schools
Catholic Education Office, Diocese of Parramatta
3:15 PANEL DISCUSSION: Right first time - The importance a of good IT governance model
- Who, What and How - Identifying the key people and their roles in good IT governance
- Getting your technology plan off the ground: establishing strategic partnerships, spending wisely, anticipating risks
- The ‘Dragon’s Den’ and other models for aligning technology with pedagogy
Martin Levins, IT Director, Armidale School
Jason MacDonald, IT Director, The Kristin School
Jarrod Johnson, Coordinator of online learning and ICT Integration, Pulteney Grammar
3:55 Afternoon tea and exhibition viewing
4:25 CLOSING KEYNOTE: Powerful ideas and the case for computing
Schools have a lot of computers, but too little computing. Computing, not information access or ICT is the game-changer that builds on each child's remarkable capacity for intensity and improves the learning environment. Educators yearning to embrace modern pedagogical approaches, such as project-based learning, need to recognize that more needs to change than the actions of the teacher.
- The power of computing in the construction of knowledge
- From environment, objects, schedules and materials to assessment, curriculum and teacher expertise - Why we need to change the setting
- A theoretical framework? - An entertaining look at building the future
Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Executive Director
The Constructivist Consortium
5:25 Closing remarks from the Chair
5:35 Close of Conference
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS - Friday 1st June 2012
9:00 - 4:00
Registration opens at 8:00
Workshop fee is inclusive of morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea
WORKSHOP A: Uncovering the recipe for the ‘secret sauce’: your
fool-proofguide to affordable and scalable leadership strategies that
will engage and enthuse your staff
It’s no secret that strong leadership and effective professional development is the key ingredient to realising your big technology visions and the resulting boost in learning outcomes. But, how often do you come up against the barriers of time, cost and a lack of staff enthusiasm?
“It’s just another add-on that I don’t have time in my day for”, “I don’t know anything about technology or how to use it”, “The technology never works”, “The traditional way of teaching works just fine, there’s no need to change it”...sound familiar?
Did you know that there is a fail-safe secret sauce to tackle these barriers head on? Join Alan November, a global leader and world-renowned expert in educational technology, as he shows you how to get your staff enthused, engaged and ready to get involved... taking an approach that won’t break the bank or waste time.
What will be covered?
- Outline essential skills for leadership
- Offer practical guidelines and creative solutions for building accountability into the planning and implementation process
- Show you how to articulate your vision and mission, manage change and align technology to your primary curricular goals
- Guide you through the critical shift in perspective from technology to information and communication planning
- Explore opportunities for ‘leader as a role model’
- Examine various opportunities for professional development design, including empowering educators to join professional communities
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Led by:
Alan November
International Leader in Educational Technology; Senior Partner and Founder
November Learning Group |
WORKSHOP B: Predicting the next 15 years: how can schools drive a sustainable approach to education?
The pace of technological change is only set to quicken, as will the pace of learning and teaching innovation. Schools are now well aware of the need to remain in-tune with the evolving needs of the digital citizen.
What are these needs? How are they set to evolve? And how can schools plan and strategise for them?
Taking a sustainable approach to education innovation means knowing and understanding the answers to these questions. Join Stephen Heppell as he explores how schools can remain agile in an increasingly complex and rapidly changing landscape.
What will be covered?
Stephen will teach you how we can build a system that will sustain itself in the long-term,
including a look at:
- Re-designing the curriculum to meet the education and lifestyle needs of students today
- Developing a sustainable plan for the role of emerging social technologies in the classroom and learning spaces
- How schools can and should be harnessing data to measure success and identify problems, both in teaching and student learning
- Re-engaging the parents and grand-parents in teaching and learning: how and why?
Why attend?
- Hear the latest of Stephen’s work and research
- Examine the drivers of schools and the education system at large and how these can be addressed to deliver education that is responsive to the needs of today’s (and tomorrow’s) students
- Network with over 150 workshop delegates in an environment that will foster deeper conversations with Stephen and others
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Led by:
Stephen Heppell
Europe’s Leading Online Education Expert |
WORKSHOP C: Understanding how the formation of children’s social relationships is changing and adapting to the digital age...what does this mean for educators?
Technology is critically ingrained in the lives of children today, and is the crux of many of their relationships. With the rise of texting, instant messaging and online social networking, questions surface on how these technologies are affecting children’s relationships.
How do children define a ‘friend’? What does technology mean for how children form the bonds that help them develop empathy, understand emotional nuances and read social cues? Does technology push children further apart, or bring them closer together? If schools play a fundamental role in the socialization of children, what does this mean for the use of technology at schools?
Register for this workshop to hear from Australia’s highest profile child and adolescent psychologist, Michael Carr-Greg to explore how the formation of social relationships is changing in the digital age, and how schools should be responding to foster an inclusive and safe environment.
What will be covered?
- Exploring how the formation of social relationships is changing
- Unpacking the role of technology in children’s lives: what does it mean to them?
- Examining trends in what children are doing online
- Questioning the role of schools versus parents in keeping kids safe online
- Understanding the nature and extent of cyber-bullying
- Establishing appropriate school policies that continue to foster the building of relationships while keeping kids sae
- Developing protocols that will keep the community safe and reduce the risk of litigation
- Examining some of the ethical, moral and legal dilemmas of working with young people in the digital of age, through the use of hypotheticals
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Led by:
Michael Carr-Gregg
Australia’s highest profile psychologist; Founding Member, National Centre Against Bullying; Chair, Cybersafety Committee; Official Advisor to the Queensland Government on Cybersafety |
** Note for EduTech delegates wishing to register for post-conference workshops:
These workshops are separately bookable. Registration will need to be completely separately to your EduTech booking, and can be done through the Technology in K-12 Congress website. Click here to register for workshops.
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