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Changing how we use technology in education, to enhance learning for children and students throughout their learning journey, is connected to trends in technology and society across the globe. As teachers, managers or principals, keeping up with innovation can be hard. That is why the Association for Learning Technology and our members bring together those who teach, learn and lead for our annual conference each year – to share what works and what doesn’t. This year, the conference focuses on five
ways to bring together evidence, theory, success stories and critical thinking from across education around five key themes: Predicting giants: what are our now and
forthcoming big questions, big challenges, and big changes? Learning to ride: we do not learn on
giants but are looking for examples from schools, colleges, universities and other education providers where collaboration and knowledge exchange are successfully used to innovate and educate. In some cases the learning may involve falling off and geting wet. Evidence on board: how do we move
on from being a (virtually) lone rider? Collaborating and collecting evidence at scale (within or between institutions), analysing it and critically assessing the analysis, is needed in order to fill the largely missing middle between (research) experiments and full scale deployment. Staying up, mobile and personal: learning
and learner technology have the potential to engage, enable and disrupt. How is digital technology changing the journey and what coping strategies do we have? All agog: results that show that we
can ride large waves and possibly giants: emerging technology and teaching practice in significant action. The conference takes place from 1–3
September 2014 at the University of Warwick, and there will be a different focus for each day of the conference, which will be reflected in special sessions, the keynote speech of the day and social and networking activities. The first day will be the Leadership
and CPD day: this is a new focus for the conference but reflects ALT's strategic aim of creating and supporting leadership and professional development in learning technology. For the second day of the conference,
the focus will move to Further Education, Adult Learning and Skills, and will include a special policy session similar to the lively Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG) meeting held during ALT’s 2013 Annual Conference.
The last day of the conference will focus
on research with a special networking event for early career researchers.
Learning technologist of the year award This year’s Learning Technologist of the Year Awards will be presented during the conference. The awards celebrate and reward excellent practice and outstanding achievement in the learning technology field for both individuals and teams and a special award for learners. The awards are sponsored by the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) and supported by Nesta. At last year’s conference, a team from the
Michael Faraday School received a runners- up award for a Talk Aloud project that used an online audio platform to help pupils develop their speaking and listening skills. A recent team runner-up prize helped a
team based at the University of Manchester communicate an augmented reality app project to the world. “Until we got the award from ALT, we hadn’t (if you like) been taken seriously and that award enabled us to really springboard onto other opportunities and take the work further,” noted Dr. Jackie Carter, Senior Manager, University of Manchester. ALT also gives Special Awards for Learners.
For example, a team of students based at New College Notingham were recognised for their work in developing a mobile phone application, in partnership with Notinghamshire Police, which addressed the problem of the general public misusing 999 (the police emergency number) and 101 (the non-emergency number).
Conference co-chairs Sarah Cornelius, Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Aberdeen Linda Creanor, Head of Blended Learning, Glasgow Caledonian University Joe Wilson, Head of New Ventures at the Scotish Qualifications Authority (SQA)
Keynote Speakers And Invited Speakers Catherine Cronin, a lecturer and
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academic coordinator of online IT programmes at the National University of Ireland, Galway. As an educator and researcher in higher education, and an advocate in schools and the community, Catherine’s work focuses on networked learning, open education, and digital identity. Jeff Haywood is Vice-Principal Knowledge Management, CIO and Librarian at the University of Edinburgh. He leads the University’s integrated Information Service, offering a wide range of services in Library, IT, Technology-Enhanced Learning and Classroom Technology. He leads major University-wide initiatives, including the substantial expansion of taught online distance Master's degrees, and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Professor Christina Hughes is Pro-Vice- Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at the University of Warwick. Her institutional roles combine with those of her research where she is engaged in the fields of gender and education and gender and work. She was founding co-Chair of the Gender and Education Association and is also co-Editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology and Associate Editor of Gender, Work and Organisation. Audrey Waters is a journalist specialising in education technology news and analysis. She is the editor of Educating Modern Learners and is working on a book called Teaching Machines. She writes regularly on her own site, Hack Education. Jim Fanning is the Head of Emerging Technologies with Education Scotland. He sits on the Scotish Stakeholder Group on Child Internet Safety. The team he leads is responsible for supporting teaching and learning with Glow and other technologies. Andrew Law is Director of the Open Media Unit at the Open University and SAE (Senior Accountable Executive) for journeys from informal to formal learning. Andrew is interested in how rich and interactive open media can help people start their journey into learning. ET
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