About the Keynote Speaker:

Dr Ken Price is a teacher and educator who has worked with ICT in education for several decades. He had taught in a range of educational environments including public and private schools, university, senior secondary and further education colleges in Australia and the UK.

He has experience working on systemic initiatives for ICT in education, including infrastructure and curriculum projects that have focussed on information literacy, ICT skills, vocational courses and external certification, and innovative teaching of computing.

Currently Ken is president of TASITE, a member of the board of the  Australian Council for Computers in Education and a member of the Australian Computer Society.

Ken works with the Department of Education in Tasmania where he is a Principal Education Officer managing online services to teachers and students. He has a particular interest in the challenges posed to education by widespread used of ICT in wider society.

Ken Price has been a Churchill Fellow and has various qualifications in science, education and public sector management. His PhD was in the role of humour in education.

Constructive Use of Disruptive Technologies – How is Web 2.0 Influencing School 2.0?

Web 2.0 applications provide both an opportunity and a challenge for students, teachers, schools and systems.

How can school ICT environments that have evolved largely to provide a particular model of educational ICT adapt to the changing world of Web 2.0?

What are the implications for school systems?
Will Web 2.0 go away if we ignore it?
How can we use its power to our advantage?
How will it influence new models of schools (School 2.0)?

This presentation will challenge some assumptions and encourage the thinking of those who look to the future of education.

Workshop:

Web 2.0 and Your Students - Beyond the Catchphrase and Into Practice.

Wondering what Web2.0 can do to help you?
Skeptical of the hype?

This workshop will give you practical ideas on how to use Web2.0 with your students with minimal effort and positive results.

You will look at educational use of about ten selected Web2.0 applications. Specific examples will be used, but the tools are generic and useful to almost all age ranges and curriculum areas.

You can use them without waiting for a school or system decision. Most importantly you can use these next Monday morning with your students. These applications are free (they might even save some current expenses), students can use them at school and at home on any computer and they support collaboration.

In the process of investigating these tools, you will increase familiarity with some important Web 2.0 concepts, and gain awareness of the benefits and risks involved.

This is a BYO Computer workshop. Please install Google Earth and Sketch Up on your notebook computer before coming to the Conference.

Download the FREE version of Sketch Up from http://sketchup.google.com/

Download Google Earth from http://www.google.com/earth/

Intended Audiece: All
BYO notebook computer