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.
AGE is a company specialising in an interactive, educational and assistive multimedia technology. AGE is present as a system integrator in the field of standard and inclusive education, as well as in the field of specific inclusive treatments. AGE is the creator of authentic essential conceptual solutions and individual devices in 1said fields. Multimedia, interactivity and flexible integration of the traditional concept with the latest technologies embodies the AGE specificity.
AGE is a company specialising in an interactive, educational and assistive multimedia technology. AGE is present as a system integrator in the field of standard and inclusive education, as well as in the field of specific inclusive treatments. AGE is the creator of authentic essential conceptual solutions and individual devices in 1said fields. Multimedia, interactivity and flexible integration of the traditional concept with the latest technologies embodies the AGE specificity.
The presentation is about taking the fear away from technology and understanding that it is behaviour that creates risk. It is about giving ideas on how educators can teach children in ways that they will understand and be empowered rather than standing in front of children and teaching them rules.
Alan is an independent, specialist adviser in the United Kingdom working mainly in education specifically around internet safety. He is a strong believer that simply blocking technology does little to mitigate risk to children, but empowering and educating children and young people allows them to recognise, respond to and manage risk whilst enjoying the wonders that technology gives us.
The University of Northampton is undergoing dramatic change. A deliberate focus on social impact, coupled with a culture shift towards innovative forms of technology-enhanced learning, are some of the major contributors to their critical success factors. This presentation will explore the university's new strategic plan and highlight key opportunities and challenges.
Alejandro's key responsibility is to drive change for quality enhancement in learning and teaching across the University where he leads the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. It was created to enhance the quality of learning and teaching by promoting, supporting, researching and building capacity in pedagogic change.
This presentation shows how students can use data sources, present information in a visually appealing way and create teaching materials using ICT. By using 'Minddomo' web tool for creating mind maps and the popular social network Facebook for communication and cooperation with other students and the teacher, they are able to create teaching materials that make learning easier and more interesting.
Aleksa is a geography and civic education teacher. He got his bachelor and master’s degree at the Faculty of Geography in Belgrade. He has been working as a teacher for eight years in two primary schools. He always tries to innovate his teaching and he is the author of several scientific articles. He was a participant of the 'Digital class' programme.
Aleksandar is a teacher of Serbian language and literature. He started his presentation by talking about learning Serbian grammar through images. Then he presented 'Led learning' followed by a short demonstration with one of his students.
10. FEBRUARY AT 14.45 | HALL 'ALT'
Technology is quickly changing the world around us and many fear it will replace human intelligence. Some are afraid there will be no more need for training in the near future and that technology could take over lots of tasks and capacities. The thing is: Education will never disappear and nor will the trainers! Yes, you are right it will take different forms. How will the future of education be shaped in the next 20 years?
He is working as a teacher of electro-energetic courses. He is an author of the advanced training for teachers: “A board without chalk, PowerPoint in class”, “Digital photography”, “Renewable sources of energy”, “Electro-energetics”. Also, there are class programmes for courses: “Renewable sources of energy”, “Software tools in electro-energetics”, “Advanced electro-energetic webs” and “Management systems”.
The usage of smart phones is shown in Electro medical devices class, which is studied in the fourth grade of electro engineering schools. Thanks to enormous development of electronics and sensors, smart phones today are used for measuring blood pressure, body temperature, ECG, as an ultrasound or as a thermovision camera. Some of the shown uses are approved by the FDA.
9. FEBRUARY AT 16.15 | HALL 'SPACE'
Students of Electro-technical school “Rade Končar“ design energy efficient lighting, install LED bulbs and finally perform testing and measurements. In their work students use mobile phones as tools and measuring devices. Up to date, these students have installed over 80 LED bulbs in 5 classrooms and 3 offices in the school. The plan of this club is to replace the entire lighting by LED lighting. Aleksandar is working at the ETS “Rade Končar“ as a teacher of electro-energy group subjects. He is author of the curriculum for the subject Renewable Energy Sources, and of accredited seminars. Dragan Knežević works as a computer science teacher at ETŠ “Rade Končar“. He authored the “Rade Končar“ school intranet and database project with the first Moodle server in secondary schools. Author and co-author of several professional papers.
10. FEBRUARY AT 10.00 | HALL 'SPACE'
This presentation discussed how Cisco Collaboration technology can be applied in education sector. We presented Cisco solutions for web-conferencing, video conferencing, interactive boards, same as the free of charge Cisco Spark cloud solution which can be applied in almost any educational institution. Aleksandar graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade in 1997, Telecommunications Department, and after that while with companies Informatika and Saga, he participated in the design and implementation of different Cisco technology based computer and communication networks. As a system engineer he has been working with Cisco Serbia since 2005. He is a specialist in Cisco Collaboration technologies and is currently responsible for the Southeast Europe region within the Cisco company.