Meet this year's speakers | British Council

For the fifth year in a row, the conference and fair "New Technologies in Education 2018" brought together some of the best teachers in the field of using ICT in their classrooms, making this event better year after year.

Over the past years, we had the opportunity to meet over 200 speakers from the Western Balkans, UK and other countries who shared their experiences in the use of educational technologies through lectures, panel discussions and workshops. We firmly believe that this year's program will be the highest quality so far.

Below you can see short description of lectures and biographies of some of our lecturers who had their presentations on the conference.

SOME OF THIS YEAR'S SPEAKERS WERE:

Aleksandra Bukovica

BIOGRAPHY

She works as a teacher-oligophrenist since 2004. School director since 2014. She completed her training in the ZUOV-Leadership for Professional Development. The author of the application for children with communication difficulties - "Lako s Markom" and several papers on this topic. She participated in projects of the NGO BERC for children with developmental disabilities and MNRO Čukarica.

PRESENTATION

Application for children with communication difficulties

The application "Lako s Markom" is intended for children with communication problems such as autism, developmental dysphasia, aphasia and cerebral palsy. It can also be used for children of typical development, where it is necessary to stimulate the development of communication from the earliest age. The purpose of this application is to enable children to understand and navigate in everyday situations.

Andrijana Ćirić and Božena Levarska

BIOGRAPHY

She has a bachelor’s degree in pedagogy with nine years working experience in pre-school education and an author of the using digital toys seminar and a coordinator of the Erasmus+ project K1. She also has rich experience in presenting expert papers on conferences and expert gatherings on different subjects. She took part in numerous trainings in Slovakia and she is a licensed educator of auto corrective means in work with pre-school children “Logico primo”.

PRESENTATION

Exploring the world with digital technology

Pre-school institution “Včielka” has a lot of experience with using digital toys (Bee- bot, Tuf cam, Easi- scope, Easi speak interactive spelling book, Recordable pegs), interactive boards and educational software in working with children. This work demonstrates concrete activities and an educational project in using these modern means of work.

Beba Stanković

BIOGRAPHY

Librarian in the National Library of Serbia, 16 years director of the National Library in Pozarevac and organizer of cultural events in the library. Vice President of the Library Society of Serbia. 2013 - 2015, managing Special Interest IFLA Group "Women, Librarianship, Information", participant of 7 world IFLA congresses, two-year INELI Balkans project. Works presented at conferences.

PRESENTATION

INELI Balkans – networking in the professional development

INELI Balkans is a successful example of good practice of training and regional netbooking in librarianship. The trainings included work with librarians from 11 countries of the Balkans, focused primarily on the development and sustainability of new ideas, cooperation and exchange of experiences among the participants. Teaching took place through the Internet portal "International Network of Emerging Library Innovators / Balkan region"

Biljana Drobnjak

BIOGRAPHY

The author of this blog works as a pedagogue in Šabac high-school. Biljana Drobnjak completed her bachelor’s and post-graduate studies at the Philosophy faculty, University of Belgrade. She is most interested in didactic-methodological aspects of teaching, causes of failure in students and how can we help both the teacher and the student in overcoming failure.

PRESENTATION

Let's learn how to learn

During the presentation we will identify the most common reasons for student’s failure in classes and how we can overcome that with the usage of modern technology. The presentation will show some basic techniques which can help every individual to improve his/her studying by using online applications such as quizzes. Instructions will be given to teachers on how to improve student’s concentration by using computers or mobile phones.

Blaženka Trivunčić and Nevenka Joksović

BIOGRAPHY OF THE MAIN SPEAKER

Blaženka Trivunčić was born in 1976 in Pljevlja and was educated in Belgrade. She is professor of Serbian language and literature. From January 2001 to September 2015 she worked as a teacher of the Serbian language at the Primary School "Branislav Nušić" in Belgrade, and since September 2015 she has been working as a teaching assistant in the Serbian language in the Paris region.

PRESENTATION

Application for children with communication difficulties

The "Education Circle" is a project that connects students from regular schools in Republic of Serbia who are learning French as their second language and students from Serbian secondary schools in France who are learning the Serbian language. The aim of the project is to develop language competences through direct guided communication via electronic tools while presenting topics from history, culture, tradition and sports in various electronic media.

Borko Petrović

BIOGRAPHY

Information about the speaker can be found here: http://zivojinmisic.rs/najbolji-edukatori-srbije-2017 and http://borkopetrovic.weebly.com

PRESENTATION

The classroom of the future

Presentation of an English language class in a digital classroom – classroom of the future. Use of educational platforms and applications for the purpose of improving competencies in teachers and students. Self-regulation and other modern methods in everyday educational practice. Remote work and the benefits of such work in communicating with teachers and peers in the country and the world.

Boško Radovanović, Vladimir Đukić, Milan Njegomir and Danijela Ljujić

BIOGRAPHY

Boško Radovanović, Master of Technological sciences, pedagogical counselor, teacher of professional subjects, associate Institute for the Promotion of Education and Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development trainer in ICT trainings, certified ECDL examiner, Cisco IT Essentials trainer, co-author of scientific papers, co-author of 2 papers at the conference "New technologies in education 2017”.

PRESENTATION

Catch the G-Force at work!

How does acceleration affect travellers in a car? G-force ― force or acceleration? Application of ICT and Micro:Bit in: procedure of acceleration measurement; collecting and analyzing results; visualizing the force as a consequence of acceleration; cooperation of teachers from different centers; sharing experiences with others through YouTube streaming.

Brankica Ristić

BIOGRAPHY

Psychologist and psychotherapist specialised in cognitive behavioral therapy. Accredited for professional trainings, lecturer in the teaching centre Informatika in Belgrade. Member of a board that is checking savvy of the programmes for educators, psychologists and pedagogues license who work in student dorms.

PRESENTATION

Applying ICT in psychoeducation of students in a student dorm

Psychoeducation, supported by ICT, has an educational and a therapy character. Students who have some characteristic psychological difficulties receive internet sources where the nature of occurrence and maintenance of these psychological problems is described. Afterwards, they are told to learn from those sources and to write a short text about it. If they want, the text can be posted on a word press platform which is edited by a psychologist and by a group of boarding school educators.

Branko Lučić

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Branko Lučić (1965) is a mathematics teacher at a high school in Crvenka. From 1988 to 2011 he has worked in the ICT area (programmer, designer, system engineer). He is the author of the multimodal educational game Lugram, which is a base for the educational project of the same name. This project is realised during the four year period of elementary school duration.

PRESENTATION

Lugram on Graph Paper Programming way

For first grade students of the elementary school “20. Oktobar” from Sivac who were working with Graph Paper Programming was organised “Lugramiranje” (playing with Lugram algorithm) by the rules of Graph Paper Programming. This experimental class showed that students of that age can successfully create and read complex geometrical shapes who were shown in an algorithm way.

Daliborka Živković

BIOGRAPHY

Daliborka Živković is employed in preschool institution "Nata Veljković", she holds academic title of master educator and academic title of Master of Science. She is advisor associate for Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development and external associate to Institute for the Evaluation of the Quality of Education and Upbringing. The author and co-author of several expert papers.

PRESENTATION

Effective communication in the process of running the preschool institution

In the presentation of the team of authors from the preschool institution "Nata Veljković" from Kruševac, the process of managing and developing the preschool institution is shown through the realization of effective communication with the parents and the local community through a quality design of the interface of the web page.