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EMPOWERING LEARNING THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
The Digital Education Show UK brings together over 500 leading educators and over 40 exhibitors to share and collaborate ideas around using technology in education
If you feel that education technology has been a huge disappointment, has been the source of frustration and staff have abandoned it; that it hasn’t delivered on its promise then the Digital Education Show UK is for you. If you feel a desire to come to grips with implementing digital technology to connect with modern digital students and try to make learning in your school the better for it, then you really should be in Olympia Level 2, London on the 30 June and 1 July 2015. The event has an extraordinary speaker faculty including Sir Ken Robinson, Sugata Mitra, Richard Gerver, Tim Rylands, Sarah Neild, Daisy Christodoulou, Ewan McIntosh, Andy Hutt and many more. KEY HIGHLIGHTS One of the main speaker highlights is the keynote address by Sir Ken Robinson who will talk about leading a culture of innovation. Keeping up and staying ahead of the game depends entirely on continuous and sustained innovation. We all know that’s true, but what do company leaders have to do to make it happen? Sir Ken Robinson has worked with some of the world’s leading creative organisations – in the corporate, educational and cultural fields. In his presentation, he will identify three myths about innovation that hold many organisations back, and the basic practices that drive the most innovative organisations ahead of the pack. If you want to encourage innovation in your
school, then you need to hear presentation by Ewan McIntosh, Founder & CEO, NoTosh Limited. He will shed some light on how to come up with great ideas and actually make them happen. Coming up with ideas, with or without technology, is easy. Knowing what an innovative, ‘great’ idea looks like is quite another matter. Making them actually happen and grow in a school is often the missing link. As a Commissioner at Channel 4 Television, Ewan McIntosh was responsible for saying ‘no’ to nearly 3,000 ideas. What are the ingredients of success from the one per cent of teams who relentlessly came up with the winning ideas that flourished? And what lessons are there to borrow for successful schools and classroom innovators? You will find out the answers to these questions from his presentation. To discover all you need to know about online education you will have opportunity to learn from Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology, Newcastle University. Sugata is recognised for building a ‘School in the Cloud’, a creative online space where children from all over the world can gather to answer ‘big questions’, share knowledge and benefit from help and guidance from online educators. Hear about Sugata’s controversial ‘minimally invasive education’ philosophy and why we should all plant the seeds of his global education experiment that lets children learn on their own, and from each other, by tapping into online resources and their inner sense of
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wonder. Be inspired to do something different and go with it. INNOVATION AT THE SHOW For practical ideas and tips on how to use technology to inspire creativity in the classroom you need to hear from Tim Rylands, innovator and award-winning educator. Tim has been described as “an extremely gifted and inspirational teacher, with a love of the creative potential of technology and an excellent rapport with his pupils”. With over 25 years of classroom experience, in the UK, and beyond, including 4 years in West Africa Tim believes “Children need to be inspired if they are going to pick ideas up and start to juggle with them.” After listening to Tim, you’ll have plenty of practical pointers and ideas of how to use technology to enhance learning that you can implement in your class tomorrow. In addition to well-known keynotes, the conference and exhibition will bring together inspiring headteachers such as Ann Haydon, principal at Surbiton High School; Neil Jones, head teacher at St Joseph’s in the Park School; Simon Barber, principal at Carshalton Boys Sports College; Dan Roberts, head teacher at Devonport High School for Boys; Dawn Hallybone, deputy head teacher at Oakdale Junior School. Other head teacher’s include Giles Storch, head teacher at Euxton CE Primary School; Tony Ryan, head teacher at Chiswick School; Ross Morrison McGill, deputy head teacher at Quintin Kynaston; Rachel Jones, teacher and e-learning coordinator at King Edward VI School; and Ian Yorston, director of digital strategy, at Radley College. Some of the topics will include using augmented reality to enhance learning, enhancing learning through online quizzing, gamifying learning, using social media for learning, transforming teaching and learning, implementing a digital learning vision into the classroom, bridging the digital skills gap, preparing pupils for a super-intelligent future, tweeting teachers and much more. At the Digital Education Show UK 2015 leading educators will share and collaborate ideas around using technology in education. The event is designed to help you learn and be inspired, and also for those moments of serendipity, when you meet someone you hadn’t expected to and find shared interests and experiences and gain insights that make attending an event worthwhile. L FURTHER INFORMATION www.terrapinn.com
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