choose from 3 optional post-conference workshops

DAY THREE - FRIDAY 1ST JUNE 2012 9:00 - 4:00 Registration opens: 8:00 Workshop fee is inclusive of morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea ** Workshops run concurrently. You can only register for one workshop.

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?

This workshop will...

• 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

Led by:

Alan November
International Leader in Educational Technology; Senior Partner and Founder
November Learning Group

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

Led by:

Stephen Heppell
Europe’s Leading Online Education Expert

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

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