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Friday 8 March
Exhibition
FREE ENTRY
Opening times: 9.30 – 16.00
Central Debate Area - sponsored by RM Education
FREE ENTRY
10.00-10.20: Keynote Speaker: Professor Alice Roberts
11.00-11.45: New Landscapes – What is the future of ICT education?
Chair: Michael Shaw (Editor of TES Pro)
Speakers: Emma Mulqueeny (Young Rewired State) / Simon Humphreys (Computing at Schools) / Brian Lightman (Association of School and College Leaders) / Stuart Ball (Microsoft) / Nicki Harmen (RM Education)
12.15-13.00: Making social media work in schools
Chair: Pete Henshaw (Editor of Sec Ed)
Speakers: Jill Stokoe (ATL) / Jennifer Begg (Social Media Consultant) / Niel McLean (NFER) / Carole Lawrenson (Spinney Ave Primary School)
13.15-13.45: Keynote Speaker: Natalie Evans, New Schools Network featuring Sir Iain Hall (Kings Leadership Academy) / Sarah Counter (Canary Wharf College)
14.00-14.45: Going Further: What is the future of FE?
Chair: Nick Linford (Managing editor of FE Week)
Speakers: Martin Doel (Association of Colleges) / David Hughes (NIACE)/ Lynne Sedgmore (157 Group) / Toni Pearce (NUS) / David Way (National Apprenticeship Service) / Tom Wilson (Unionlearn)
15.15-15.35: Ministerial Address
Leaders’ Conference
The cost of attending the conference is £80 for Friday and Saturday or £60 for just Friday or Saturday. The cost includes a parking discount voucher and a lunch voucher for use in Manchester Central. You will receive an e-mail with further details in your delegate welcome pack.
10.30-11.30: Ofsted update for ICT
Speaker: David Brown (National adviser for ICT, Ofsted)
12.00-13.00: Academy conversion: Challenges and solutions
Speakers - Sue Edwards (Chair, Lancashire Association of School Business Managers) / Judy Bateman (SBM, Bowland High) / Jenny Goy (SBM, Bacup & Rawtenstall Grammar School)
14.00-15.00: Making the news: Managing the media in a digital world
Speakers - Janet Murray (Education Journalist for the Guardian and others) / Ed Dorrell (TES) / Pete Henshaw (Editor, SecEd)
Seminars and CPD Sessions
FREE ENTRY
Yellow Seminar Room
10.30-11.30 (CPD): Innovating learning in the classroom - Clive Beale (Raspberry Pi Foundation / OCR)
12.00-12.30: Developing support for dyslexic learners - Dr Kate Saunders (British Dyslexia Association)
13.00-13.30: Parents on your side: Evolving school communications - Simon Rowlands (Sale Grammar School)
14.00-14.30: Developing a social media strategy for your school – Jennifer Begg (Social media consultant, Live Free Range)
Green Seminar Room
10.30-11.15: The role of project-based learning in delivering 21st century education - TBC (Innovation Unit)
11.30-12.30 (CPD): Using technology to engage children and families with English as a second language – Scott Parkin (Early Essence)
13.00-13.30: Demystifying Digital Media: How it works, how to teach it, and how it can help you meet OFSTED requirements - Danny Bermant (Brainstorm Digital)
14.00-14.30: Trial, error and innovation in the secondary classroom - Gareth Ritter (Willows High School, Cardiff)
Blue Seminar Room
10.30-11.00: Case study on the JISC funded Scarlet project which has used groundbreaking technology with early printed books to bring learning to life - Jackie Carter & Guyda Armstrong (Manchester University)
11.30-12.00: The role of ICT in enhancing the student experience (HE) - Peter Tinson (UCISA)
12.30-13.30 (CPD): Using iOS interfaces to encourage and improve literacy in children with challenging behaviour - Mary Farmer
14.00-14.30: Practical solutions for sustainability in education - David Frise (National Skills Academy)
Purple Seminar Room – Sponsored by Qwizdom
10.30-11.00: Towards the paperless school - Louise Jaggs & Dr Tim Dunn (On Tap Digital Media)
11.30-12.30 (CPD): iPads in education workshop - David Baugh (Apple Distinguished Educator)
12.30-13.00: The role of peer to peer learning in computer programming – Emma Mulqueeny (Young Rewired State)
13.30-14.30 (CPD): Inclusive education: Assistive technology to support struggling readers and writers - Jamie Munro (Inclusive Technology)
Workshops
FREE ENTRY
Seminar Room 5
09.30-09.45: E-learning for School Governors: What, who, how, where and why - Elaine Walton (Learning Pool)
“Change is the only constant” is the oft-heard cry of school governors. Governors are the biggest volunteer workforce in the UK. At a time when local authority governor training budgets are under increasing pressure, e-learning is seen as a flexible, cost-effective way to help keep governors up to speed on their role and responsibilities. Modern Governor, from Learning Pool, operates a community sharing e-learning platform specifically designed for school governors that’s being used by half of England’s local authorities. But it’s not just about cost-efficiencies. A blended learning solution - combining the best of online and face to face time - can help people to learn faster and retain more. Topics covered will include:
- Challenges faced by local authorities and school governors
- How we share knowledge and expertise throughout the community
- Dispelling the myths about e-learning and online school governors
- Local authority collaboration
European Electronique - D8
10.30-11.00: Steps to building your own cloud service - James Penny
European Electronique - D8
14.30-15.00: Toshiba Tablets Demonstration - Dan Perkin
iThink Therefore iPad Conference
COBDEN ROOMS
Friday 8th March ONLY
The iThink Therefore iPad? conference will present, explore and discuss the existing and potential applications of Apple’s iPad and iPod Touch within an educational context, particularly focusing on the use of these devices across EYFS, primary, secondary, further and higher educational institutions. It will also focus on the viability and affordances of these devices in the current economic climate and the possibilities that they present for developing high quality, cost effective, teaching and learning.
As an ever increasing number of educational establishments embrace the benefits that iPads and iPod Touches can bring to learning, iThink Therefore iPad? will appeal to a wide range of educationalists and professionals related to education settings.
iThink Therefore iPad? is organised by the Faculty of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University. According to the Faculty, it is committed to offering high quality conference and staff development opportunities to support schools in getting the most out of their use of technologies to improve teaching and learning. The iThink Therefore iPad? conference and will include an array of speakers, activities and workshops from leading professionals in this area, providing the conditions to stimulate a wider and deeper understanding of this field.
Manchester Metropolitan University are proud to be co-locating with the Education Innovation exhibition and conference at Manchester Central. “iThink” delegates will receive free entry to the Education Innovation event and a 50% discount entry to the leaders conference sessions on the Saturday 9th March.
Fees: Delegate rate – £150 / Delegate Rate – including iPad, 16GB Wi-Fi – £450 (ex. VAT)
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Saturday 9 March
Exhibition
FREE ENTRY
Opening times: 9.30 – 16.00
Central Debate Area - sponsored by RM Education
FREE ENTRY
10.00-10.20: Keynote Speaker: Dr Tanya Byron
11.00-11.45: Skills for the future: Inspiring young people to pursue STEM careers
Chair: Helen Mulley (Editor, Teach Secondary)
Speakers: Yvonne Baker (National Science Learning Centre) / Maggie Philbin / Ruth Amos (Stairsteady) / Gemma Cameron (Manchester Girl Geeks) / Saul Nasse (BBC Learning)
12.15-13.00: Academies/Free Schools: The next chapter
Chair: Jonn Elledge (Editor, Education Investor)
Speakers: Alasdair Smith (Anti-Academies Alliance) / Francis Gilbert / Martin Latham (FASNA/ Robinswood Primary School) / James Penny (European Electronique)
13.30-13.50: Ministerial Address: Stephen Twigg MP (Shadow education secretary)
14.00-14.45: Jobs for the Girls: Encouraging girls to consider qualifications and careers in IT
Chair: Julia Dennison (editor, Education Executive)
Speakers: Tony Sheppard (Edugeek) / Sue Nieland (E-Skills) / Genevieve Smith-Nunes (Sussex Downs College) / Helen Wollaston (WISE/UKRC)
15.15-15.35: Keynote Speaker: Spencer Kelly
Leaders’ Conference
The cost of attending the conference is £80 for Friday and Saturday or £60 for just Friday or Saturday. The cost includes a parking discount voucher and lunch voucher for use in Manchester Central. You will receive an e-mail with further details in your delegate welcome pack.
10.30-11.30: Teacher training: developing the next generation of classroom practitioners
Speaker: Bob Harrison (Support for Education and Training, SET)
12.00-13.00: Changing education: Ensuring high-quality education outcomes in an increasingly localised and personalised system
Speaker: Louis Coiffait (Pearson)
14.00-15.00: What does the future hold for technology in teaching and learning?
Speaker: Vanessa Pittard (Department for Education)
Seminars and CPD Sessions
FREE ENTRY
Yellow Seminar Room
10.30-11.30 (CPD): Sprogs with blogs: Improving writing through “blogging” – David Mitchell (Heathfield Primary School)
12.00-12.30: Introduction to Java programming using Greenfoot for GCSE/A-level – Genevieve Smith-Nunes (Sussex Downs College)
13.00-13.30: Delivering excellent triple science provision: Overcoming the obstacles integrating triple science into the curriculum at your school - Rosalyn Sands (Science Learning Centres and National STEM Centre) / Dr Joanne Smiles (Manchester Academy) / Dawn Jones (Science Learning Centre North West)
14.00-14.30: Making the best use of ICT for dyslexic learning, a personal view - Arran Smith (British Dyslexia Association)
Green Seminar Room
10.30-11.00: Inspring a life full of learning - Saul Nasse (BBC Learning)
11.30-12.30 (CPD): Using ICT to inspire: Raising levels of creativity in children of all ages and abilities - Tim Rylands & Sarah Neild
13.00-13.30: Using blogging to promote literacy in schools - Khawer Ishtiaq (Teaching Leaders)
14.00-14.30: Fashion, fads and real learning: Five pieces of research about technology that every teacher should know - Niel McLean (Futurelab)
Blue Seminar Room
10.30-11.00: Teach Scratch - Alan O’Donohoe (Our Lady’s Catholic High School, Preston)
11.30-12.00: Best practice incorporating technology into education - Rachel Jones (British Council for School Environments)
12.30-13.30 (CPD): Technology for students - Iris Lanny (Oracle)
14.00-14.30: Collaboration, not competition in primary schools: working together to improve outcomes for children and young people - Pat Jefferson (National Education Trust)
Purple Seminar Room – sponsored by Qwizdom
10.30-11.00: S2R Medals: Using the web to motivate and recognise achievement and connect students to jobs in the creative industries - Tim Riches & Lucy Neale (DigitalMe)
11.30-12.15: The role of enterprise education in raising motivation and achievement - Jane Delfino (Manchester Academy in association with Whole Education)
12.30-13.00: Using the Nintendo DS to improve numeracy in the primary classroom - Jodie Collins (Getting into Literacy)
14.00-15.00 (CPD): Consultation on ICT curriculum - Jan Webb (NAACE) with Doug Gowen (ALT)
Workshops
FREE ENTRY
European Electronique - D8
10.30-11.00: Steps to building your own cloud service - James Penny
11.15-12.00: Tablets in the early years - Marc Faulder
MirandaMod
Central 8 Seminar Room
Saturday 9th March ONLY
11.30-12.30: MirandaMod Workshop
Collaborative Learning Online
Professional development that embraces digital innovations in learning
A MirandaMod workshop led by the MirandaNet Fellowship
#MNcollaboration
In this workshop we work with teachers to explore the value of three different ways of digital learning: helping to understand what is possible in the world that most pupils already inhabit.
These three approaches have been developed over three decades by teachers and researchers who are members of the MirandaNet Fellowship, a professional organisation that focuses on the value of innovative technologies in teaching and learning.
- Informal collaborative learning online: Dr Christina Preston, Professor of Educational Innovation, MirandaNet Fellowship and University of
Bedfordshire;
- Twitter as creative social activity in professional learning: Dr Matthew Pearson, MirandaNet Fellowship;
- The Creative and Innovative use of the Visual in Learning: Theo Kuechel, Senior Fellow, MirandaNet Fellowship.
During the session we will work with participants to begin building an online collaborative concept map, capturing information on these topics on which professionals can build.
Raspberry Jamboree
Saturday 9th March ONLY
Raspberry Jam is the rapidly growing global network of users that meet every month to support anyone with an interest in the Raspberry Pi computer. We have had 1000s of people of all ages from Manchester to Melbourne and Silicon Valley to Singapore regularly attending Raspberry Jams to find out what they can do with this £25 computer. You don’t need to own a Raspberry Pi computer to attend, you only need to possess a desire to discover the potential of this device to boost interest and engagement in computing education.
We are delighted that the first Raspberry Jamboree is to take place in Manchester which has a rich history of computing innovation.
There are two principal aims of this Raspberry Jamboree, with particular emphasis on the first aim:
1. One year on since the general release of the Raspberry Pi computer, we plan to identify sucessful examples of how it is being used to change computing education for the better. We particularly want to encourage those with a stake in education to attend, to learn what the device is capable of, and judge the impact it is having on education.
2. In addition to this, we also hope to share successful Jam-making practice. As Raspberry Jams continue to spread far around the World, we plan to share what constitutes a successful Raspberry Jam, the most successful recipes and how to locate the best ingredients so you can have a successful Jam in your school, college, or community space.
We have a broad range of speakers, activities and workshops from stars in this field, with a rich supply of ideas for you to take away and practice.
The Raspberry Jamboree is co-locating with the Education Innovation exhibition and conference at Manchester Central. Ticket holders will receive free entry to the Education Innovation event.
Early bird registration is £5 (plus booking fee). Standard rate registration is £10 (plus booking fee).
