Presentation Title:

Developing appropriate boundaries for social networks and social learning? - Andrew Douch

Presenter Organisation:

Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Teacher

Session Type:

Critical Session

Presentation Description:

With all the mis-adventures and poor examples of what social technologies enable being spread almost daily across the popular media, how can we best develop guidelines and policy to effectively use them within our schools? What are the possibilities and imaginings that we might be able to leverage to create a more dynamic, authentic and relevant learning environment in our classrooms and beyond through the use of social media? This session will explore some of the issues, challenges and opportunities that arise through such a development process.

Presentation Title:

Industry Trends and Directions that will Impact School Technology Strategies - Karen Li

Presenter Organisation:

Global Education Program Manager, Intel Corporation

Session Type:

Critical Session

Presentation Description:

Keeping abreast of the technology industry has always been a challenge for schools, particularly in this now rapidly emerging world of 1 to 1. In this session Karen will share insights around product developments that will impact school technology decisions in the near future, and is also looking for input from school technology leaders around their needs and requirements for their students.

Presentation Title:

Online or off-the-air? Realities of a young person’s virtual world - Janice Atkin

Presenter Organisation:

Inspire Foundation

Session Type:

Critical Session

Presentation Description:

We hear and see the stories of what young people do online, but what are the realities? How can we gain a better understanding of the time young people spend online, and how we might be able to best leverage that to create learning opportunities, and positive outcomes? This session will explore in more detail some of the research built around the work of the Inspire Foundation, and share ideas about what positive strategies schools can develop to ensure their students have safe online experiences.

Presentation Title:

What, All Our Students Have Laptops and Nothing Changes? - Travis Smith

Presenter Organisation:

Expanding Learning Horizons

Session Type:

Critical Session

Presentation Description:

As we move to an era of ubiquitous access, with the prediction that within 3 years, all students in Australian schools above 10 years old ( and some younger), will have their own personal portable computer, now is the time for us to seriously reassess our capacity to capitalize on what it can make possible. In this session Travis will give examples of some of the best professional development programs he is involved in, and will challenge some of the current accepted models for professional learning that are failing to keep abreast of the opportunities.