Get to know our partners and co-organizers on journey of introducing ICT solutions to education in Western Balkans region. In parallel with our two-day conference, we also organised a fair where over 30 ICT companies and educational institutions presented the latest technological solutions in education that they developed or introduced to the market. The participants were able to visit their stands, try out interactive classroom solutions, find out how to use the internet for high quality teaching and see a micro:bit devices for coding. 

Fair exhibitors:

Miles Berry

Miles Berry

BIOGRAPHY

Miles is principal lecturer in Computing Education at the University of Roehampton. Prior to joining Roehampton, he spent 18 years in four schools, much of the time as an ICT coordinator and most recently as a head teacher. He is a board member of Computing At School, the BCS Academy of Computing and the CSTA. He is a fellow of the BCS, RSA and HEA, and a member of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. 

PRESENTATION

AI, machine learning and schools

Miles discusses some of the implications of AI and machine learning for education, considering how short term changes are likely to support teachers in their roles. He shows how pupils can learn some machine learning tools to build simple classifiers, and considers how the moral and ethical aspects of AI might be addressed in schools. He considers long term implications of AI for schooling.

 

Miles Berry

This is for everyone: programming in English schools

27 FEBRUARY AT 9.30 | HALL 'SPACE'

This presentation will give a quick summary of how England went from teaching ICT skills to programming know-how. It will present rationales for introducing programming to the curriculum, how to teach it in schools.

Using Scratch in Maths classes 

27 FEBRUARY AT 15.00 | HALL 'ENTER'

Miles will give a quick introduction to the Scratch interface, turtle graphics, creating a maths quiz programme in Scratch and exploring the Scratch community.

Principal Lecturer in Computing Education at the University of Roehampton in London. He spent 18 years in four schools, much time of the time as an ICT coordinator and most recently as a head teacher. His research interests include the pedagogies of computer science education and informal learning. 

Milica Marković

How to use Google maps in classes

11. FEBRUARY AT 15.30 | HALL 'INSERT'

The purpose of this lecture was to provide useful advice and practical instructions on how to use Google maps in teaching literature (she teaches Serbian language and literature), and other school subjects like History, Geography, Maths and Art. Serbian language and literature teacher at the Third Grammar School in Belgrade since 2012. Author of a collection of Klett preparatory tasks for Serbian language and literature for first and third year, and associate on the handbook Literature III of the same publisher. She also worked as a mentor at the Center for Talents Belgrade II for research papers in the area of language and literature. Participated in the last year's “New Technologies in Education” conference as a lecturer. 

Milica Marković

Technology and formative evaluation 

27 FEBRUARY AT 11.45 | HALL 'ENTER'

This lecture will present different technologies that can be used for formative evaluation of students and the continual tracking of their progress and accomplishments. There will also be a best practice example in the area of Serbian language and literature.

Milica finished her studies at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. Since 2012 she has been working in the Third Belgrade High School. From 2012 to 2014 she worked together with Klett publishing as an author for the resources aimed at first and third year students. In 2015 she was an associate for the third year manual. 

Milica Đurić-Jovičić

Application for working with autistic children

27 FEBRUARY AT 10.15 | HALL 'INSERT'

In cooperation with doctors, therapists and parents of children with autism, a project was lunched to develop an interactive and multimedia app (in Serbian) that stimulate the motoric, cognitive and social aspects of their development. The results of this project are software apps that act like systems for interactive therapy.

Milica graduated, and later got her doctors degree, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, department for signals and systems. She worked there as a project researcher before transferring to the Innovation Centre within the faculty where she currently has the position of acting director.

Milorad Karanović

Playing games on your phone? Be a jack and create your own!

11. FEBRUARY AT 11.00 | HALL 'INSERT'

Pupils own smart phones, play games, but the jack is the one who creates their own application and brags about it to their friends and thus activates others. Free online tool Appinventor enables us to, with minimum resources, introduce gamification in computer science classes, developing in that way independence and creativity in students. Milorad Karanović is a computer science teacher at the Primary School “Sveti Sava” in Kikinda. He participated in many national IT competitions where he ranked first and third, same as in international “Neumman” competition in Hungary where he won first place on the topic of computer games. He is a member of the Serbian Digital Classroom team. Author: Competition- prevention of violence “Safe Cyber Classroom 2016”.

Miloš Bajčetić

Digital curation - new skills for the new digital age

27 FEBRUARY AT 14.30 | HALL 'INSERT'

The aim of this lecture is to present web 2.0 service 'digital curation' to the audience. It will explain how that service can help with navigation through the nuisances of information and how to use it for learning. 

For 16 years Miloš has been working on research and application of educational technology. He is the author of a number of projects, seminars and workshops in the field of medical education and educational technology.

MILOŠ BAJČETIĆ

Digital age - the age of distraction

working group | new technologies in higher education

Miloš is a lecturer at the School of Medicine in Belgrade and the chairman of the board of directors of the Moodle Network in Serbia. The aim of his presentation was to point out some ‘mistakes’ and stereotypes when it comes to the implementation of new educational technologies. These mistakes and stereotypes originate from insufficient understanding of new media characteristics, unrealistic expectations and lack of knowledge of the contemporary research in the field of neuroscience, cognitive psychology and pedagogy.