Over 120 speakers from Serbia, the region and the UK shared their experience and ideas with the audience at the 'New Technologies in Education 2016' conference. Find out who were the speakers and what were the topics they covered in their presentations.
Have a look at the list of the speakers that spoke at the event last year.
The Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications of the Republic of Serbia is the ministry in the Government of Serbia which is in charge of trade, tourism and telecommunications, economic relations with the foreign countries and the area of informing the society.
Based on international evidence, Natalia has provided a comprehensive and easily accessible summary of the key benefits and limitations of using touchscreens with children aged two to eight years. Attention was paid to key novel affordances of tablets and smartphones for early education and effective pedagogies necessary for innovative practice.
Natalia Kucirkova is a lecturer at University College of London, UK. Her research concerns innovative ways of supporting digital literacy and children’s use of digital technologies. She is the founding convenor of the Children’s Digital Books and Literacy Apps Special Interest Group of the United Kingdom Literacy Association.
Discussion of successful rollout of a wide range of digital technologies to support student education at Leeds, from a strategic and operational perspective, focussing on the impact on learning and learners; examples has included deployment of Europe’s largest automated lecture capture system, delivery of MOOCs to over 500,000 participants, use of mobile apps for live classroom polling etc.
Neil is Chair of Educational Technology, Innovation and Change in the School of Education and the Director of Digital Learning at the University of Leeds. He is a UK National Teaching Fellow, and has won a number of national awards for teaching excellence. He has a research background in neuroscience and current research interests in educational technology, online learning and blended learning. Neil is co-lead educator for the Blended Learning Essentials MOOC, which has attracted over 25,000 participants.
Scratch is successfully being used in primary schools worldwide to introduce children to programming. However, pupils can be become disengaged if the same programming environment is repeatedly used. During this session, we discussed a range of hardware and software to enhance pupils’ programs within in Scratch, in addition to alternatives to Scratch.
Neil is a Senior Lecturer in Computing Education at the University of Hertfordshire. He is also the Computing tutor on the Primary PGCE courses for both Brunel University and the University of Leeds. He has successfully prepared hundreds of trainee teachers for life in schools and delivered a diverse range of sessions.
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Discover why thinking skills are at the heart of coding and why exposing students to failure, ambiguity and complexity are some of the best things you can do for them. Phil took you on a journey to examine the anatomy of a programming project, the hurdles pupils overcome, lessons learnt and thinking skills gained.
Phil shared 20 exciting computing science lessons which use computational thinking and doing. This wild breakneck ride certainly left you wondering why you haven’t started teaching computing science before.
Phil works for Hampshire County Council as a Computing Inspector/Advisor and Master teacher teaching for two days a week. He shares his learning journey on code-it.co.uk. He was involved in the drafting stages with writing the Computing National Curriculum in England.
Balancing a request from students for lecture capture with an institutional redesign agenda that values active, blended and personalised learning for our students on a new campus with no lecture theatres.
At the University of Northampton, we are moving to a position where ‘active blended learning’ is the new normal. This keynote has considered the challenges and opportunities for us as we seek to develop Active Blended Learners and Educators.
Rachel is Head of Learning and Teaching Development in the Institute of Learning and Teaching at the University of Northampton, in the UK. Her role includes leading institutional projects to develop policy and practice that drive the University towards its strategic goals.
Richard is one of the most celebrated speakers in the world. His insights into change, leadership and education are unique thanks to his own extraordinary journey, which has seen him go from struggling actor, copywriter and estate agent, to becoming an award winning teacher and school principal, whose ground breaking work in education was celebrated by the British National Teaching awards and UNESCO amongst others.
As we look to develop an education system that prepares our students for the complexity of their future, Richard will explore what advances in technology and the workplace will mean for our schools, our pupils and ourselves as teachers. He will share some of his unique insights into teaching, learning and the challenges that change will bring us all.
This presentation will draw on learning design and student experience of assessment research to present a model for thinking about revision and discussion of key issues.
Simon is a lecturer at the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University UK. His work is focused on several areas including assessment and badges, learning design, issues associated with adaptive and visualised learning, and open online learning. He is currently involved in several projects related to the OU's institutional Assessment Programme.
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