Exploring Education Futures series
The MirandaNet Lounge
Recharge your batteries
We had everything you need at an exhibition: coffee and biscuits, seats, time for discussion and debate, and chargers for your mobile phones.
Powering Learning BETT13
January 30th – 2nd February
http://www.bettshow.com/
Excel Centre, Royal Docklands,
London, E16 1DR
Read David Obst’s BETT Blog.
Programme
Miranda’s ICT curriculum: today and tomorrow
1200 – 1300 MirandaNet unconference opens with an interview with Sir Bob Geldof
‘Questions and Answers’: ‘The World is Calling’
with Professor Christina Preston and Stuart Abrahams, GroupCall.
1330-1400 Linking CPD, learning and technology: David Weston, Chief Executive Teacher Development Trust
1430-1500 The MirandaNet approach to the new ICT curriculum: Ian Lynch, GEBOL, Theo Keuchel, MirandaNet; Allison Allen, Outstream and Naace
The accompanying MindMeister map can be accessed here:
Create your own mind maps at MindMeister
1530-1600 What does innovation in education look like? Dominic Savage and Caroline Wright, BESA, leading a panel of MirandaNet associates who are designing the tools to promote innovation in teaching and learning including: IRIS-Connect, Follett; Group Call; KO-SU; Tom Holland, My Knowledge Map; GEBOL; LightSpeed; My Knowledge Map; Texas Instruments; and TSM workshops.
1630 – 1730 MirandaMod: An ICT curriculum for the Knowledge Age; Douglas Butler (TSM Workshops); Iris Lanny (Oracle); Bill Mitchell (British Computer Society); Roger Turner, LightSpeed; Andrea Forbes (Texas Instruments); Dr Chris Yapp and Dr John Cuthell, MirandaNet.
Here’s the MindMeister map:
Thursday 31st January
Professional Development about ICT and underpinned by ICT.
1100-1130: Enhanced CPD through video technology: Andy Newell: IRIS Connect
1230-1300 Teaching Schools and Technology: Bob Harrison National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services
1430-1500 Twitter for enhanced CPD: Andy Mellor – NAHT
1530-1600 Digital Literacy; Digital Safety; getting the balance right: Allison Allen, Outstream and Professor Christina Preston, MirandaNet
1630 – 1730: MirandaMod: What makes a good ICT professional development programme? Led by Rachel Jones (Education Director, The Elliot Foundation) and Catherine Howard (Head of Training & Consultancy, Steljes), Dr John Cuthell, Director, MirandaNet and Dr Christina Preston, Founder of MirandaNet, and Professor of Educational Innovation, University of Bedfordshire.
If you can’t attend in person you can join us in FlashMeeting. Details are here.
Members and friends are welcome to congregate for drinks and supper together after the show at 1800 at La Barrique (www.labarrique.co.uk), a warm rustic wine café 5 mins walk to the right of Excel West Gate on the way to the entrance to Custom House DLR station.
Friday Ist February
An agenda for professional communities: building and sharing professional resources
1100-1130 Technology and the Listening Environment: Roger Turner, LightSpeed.
1230-1300 Twittering and other professional development tools: Dr Matt Pearson
1330-1400 Apps for Good: Debbie Forster
1430-1500 Building Professional Capital through Technology: Graham Newell, IRIS Connect.
1530-1600 Re-engineering education: a call for collective action. Professor Marilyn Leask, Dr Sarah Younie and Sarah Jones: Education Futures Collaboration.
1630 – 1730 MirandaMod; Where are all the resources for teachers? Dr Sarah Younie, ITTE, Professor Marilyn Leask, ITTE, and Professor Christina Preston, (Education Futures Collaboration).
If you can’t attend in person you can join us in FlashMeeting. Details are here.
Members and friends are welcome to congregate for drinks and supper together after the show at 1800 at La Barrique (www.labarrique.co.uk), a warm rustic wine café 5 mins walk to the right of Excel West Gate on the way to the entrance to Custom House DLR station.Or sign up for the TeachMeet
Saturday 2nd February
Teachers’ ICT Curriculum Exchange
in partnership with World Ecitizens
1030 -1100 Literacy from Scratch: Lawrence Williams, Brunel University and Dr Mirka Cernochova, Charles University, Prague.
1115-1145 A vision for the future of learning led by MirandaNet strategists: Jim Fanning Tidewell School, Dai Thomas, Warden Park, and Denis Landie and Michael Smith, Forest School.
1200 -1230 Can digital devices really have an impact on learning? About iPads led by Kevin Burden, Hull University; about IWBs, led by David Obst, Technische Universität, Dresden.
1300-1315 Using Web 2.0 tools for enhancing learning – school case studies: Dr Katya Toneva, St Mary’s University.
1415 – 1445 How can partnership with colleagues abroad help teaching and learning? led by Dan Bowen and Dave Smith
1500-1600 – A Think Tank: How ICT/digital technologies might be used to motivate and facilitate the inclusion of students from diverse backgrounds and disadvantage? Charlotte Davies, Dr Christina Preston, University of Bedfordshire.
Why are so many children not achieving and badly behaved? Cognitive Visual Integration Therapy is providing solutions. Providing the right kind of digital brain training could be the answer. In this session help us to work out which digital tools might help and how to spread knowledge about this more widely.
If you can’t attend in person you can join us in FlashMeeting. Details are here.
Members and friends are welcome to congregate for drinks and supper together after the show at 1630 at La Barrique (www.labarrique.co.uk), a warm rustic wine café 5 mins walk to the right of Excel West Gate on the way to the entrance to Custom House DLR station.
About MirandaMods
“One way of visualising the MirandaMod method of working together in Web 2 is to compare it to the growth a rhizome a plant stem that sends out roots and shoots that allow the plant to propagate itself through organic growth into the surrounding habitat. Don’t you believe us? Come and find out or join us online…
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