Program

An exciting line up of well-respected speakers shall be presenting at the EDU-IT 2013 Conference.
As well as the regular program, Tom Barrett from NoTosh will be hosting 2 workshops during the program.

Places are limited, so please register early and let us know you would like to attend a workshop.
Please click here to view the flyer on the NoTosh workshops.

 

EDU-IT Program

Tom Barrett

Senior Consultant, Australia
NoTosh

Tom Barrett leads education and creative projects for our Australian branch, based in Melbourne and working globally.

Tom Barrett was one of the UK’s best known primary classroom teachers before starting with NoTosh in 2011, and is now known for his highly innovative approaches with schools around the world. He curates and shares thousands of practical ideas from teachers across the globe on his blog edte.ch, and puts into practice the very best thinking on educational technology to inspire and engage children in their learning.

Tom works on leadership, technology adoption and improving teacher capacity with NoTosh in schools across Australia, and provides regular input on other projects globally. He inspires teacher audiences with fresh ideas for engaging young people in learning at conferences and workshops.

His reputation for seeing worthwhile trends in educational technology is well founded: he was the first teacher in the world to work with multitouch tables in the classroom, pre-dating iPads by some three years in a partnership with Philips. He currently sits on the steering group for Durham University’s SynergyNet project that is researching the future path of multi-touch pedagogy.

He was also a key figure in spreading the popularity of “for teachers, by teachers” unconference TeachMeet throughout England, devising the commercial partnership model of TeachMeet Takeovers at the world’s biggest education show, BETT.

He also worked with Google to bring their teacher academy event to Google HQ London. It was the first time Google held the teacher training event outside of the US.

 

Travis Smith

National Education Specialist,
Microsoft

Travis Smith has over 11 years’ experience in the classroom teaching Psychology, Geography, History and English, and managed the very successful notebook program at Frankston High School in Victoria. During his time at the school he held positions of Leading Teacher in charge of Technology as well as being the Assistant Principal. He lectured at Monash University for many years in the Education Faculty and his strength is the link between highly effective teaching and learning and the role technology can play to enhance it.

Travis has presented at conferences worldwide on the effective use of technology in the classroom as well as co-facilitated events such as the Worldwide Microsoft Partners in Learning Forum in Washington DC and Prague for teachers and leaders from over 70 countries. He also held the role of National Manager of Expanding Learning Horizons, as an educational technology consultant. In this role Travis facilitated conferences around Australia and internationally, presented many workshops and keynote presentations as well as consulted to over 60 schools across Australia in the use of technology in teaching and learning, strategic planning and implementing 1-to-1 technology programs.
Travis has now joined the Microsoft team to work with educators around Australia and beyond in the use of technology for powerful learning.

 

Ben Beaton

Director of Information Learning Technologies
Methodist Ladies College

Ben is the Director of Information Learning Technologies at MLC, a role which sees him work with students, parents and teachers to expand the opportunities for implementing learning technologies in education.  Ben’s focus is for developing systems that streamline access to information and resources for all members of the community empowering engaging conversations about student outcomes.

Ben is an Apple Distinguished Educator and regularly presents to teachers and the wider community on implementing contemporary learning technology into the classroom experience.

 

Darryl Watson

Manager of ICT Operations, All Saints College

I‘ve worked with technology for nearly 40 years and the last 12 have been in the education sector.
Having presented at conferences around Australia I look forward to the opportunity to discuss future trends with everyone at the EDU-IT Conference.

At last the constant evolution of technology is having a significant impact in the classroom and we all need to embrace the possibilities these changes present. I see a great challenge within schools with keeping up with the student’s use of technology and making sure teachers understand the potential of the devices already in use. This potential is not only for improving outcomes but also disrupting everything in the classroom.

The students are adapting to technology so quickly that we need to work hard to keep our eyes on the horizon to see what the next tidal wave looks like.