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Spotlight Summary
Overview & Objectives
Participants should emerge with a better view of global developments in learning and the learning technology... and something of a sense of optimism.
Outline
Unmissable!! In a lively and entertainming, but challenging, session Stephen will be exploring some of the ways that learning in the 21st century differs to the 20th. Looking at eye opening examples drawn from around the world, and from Stephen's own rich quarter century experience of large scale cutting edge learning projects, attendees will see for themselves how mobile phones are impacting on learning, how excluded children in virtual schools are outperforming the schools they were excluded from, how children's voices are shaping everything from school design to the curriculum, and much more. This session is not a dreary trot through an endless heap of Powerpoint slides; it's not linear, it's agile and it's provocative. Even straight after lunch you are guaranteed to stay WIDE awake.
Supporting Research
Ultralab, founded by the presenter, has a track record of over 25 years of research making learning more delightful through the use of technology. Currently the largest (and best!) learning technology lab in Europe with over 50 projects currently active its work can be explored from http://www.ultralab.net Professor Heppell has now founded, and moved to, Learn3K at the NCI in Dublin Ireland. Learn3K is very much fucussed on developing learning for the 3rd millennium and is part of a global network of largely government funded learning action research centres.
Student Voices
Involving students in the design of their learning environments, from the design of the building to the use of phones in assessment, is an essential component in building the agile and challenging learning needed in this millennium. That involvement always seems to result in heightened performances too, perhaps unsurprisingly. Amongst other good things, this Spotlight Session includes a number of examples of such involvement from around the world.
Presenter Background & Qualifications
With over a quarter century of experience innovatng in learning through new technologies, Prof Heppell speaks at, opens and closes conferences all over the world, always to packed sessions. He is much in demand as a speaker. Prof Heppell has been the fiorce behing a substantial number of large scale, effective, innovative learning projects around the world. He also advises a broad range of governments and is the heart of much innovative development in learning, from the architecture of learning spaces through assessment futures to communities of learning practice. Some recent media coverage: Europe's leading online education guru
The Guardian newspaper When I finally spotted him, Stephen Heppell didn?t look at all like I imagined. This geek of geeks, this net-head of all times, this revolutionary who is yanking the British education system out of its Victorian slumber and shaping it for the digital information age, surely it couldn?t be this genial fellow before me with his whitening Father Christmas beard and Hush Puppy fashion sense.
Design Magazine
Prerequisites
Participants should really care about learning!
Referenced Web Links (URLs)
www.learn3k.org
www.notschool.net
www.ultralab.net
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