EduTECH Agenda
Melbourne, 10 - 11 August 2022
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Official Opening and Welcome by the Chair
Welcome to Country
Ministerial Address
Digital for good: Rethinking our relationship with technology in a post-Covid world
The Emotion Contagion: The Compelling Case for EdTech + Social Emotional Learning
We know that learning is a social activity and therefore emotions matter, but how do busy teachers in increasingly complex classrooms integrate the development of social-emotional learning into the ebb and flow of daily classroom life? How can technology be levered to support the development of capabilities like self-awareness and self-regulation, critical for academic, life and work success?In this entertaining keynote, Mark Sparvell, Education Director at Microsoft shares what we should all do Monday and not Someday to develop social and emotional skills in all young people. Mark is a 30+ year experienced education teacher and leader, people ambassador for the Emotional Intelligence Society of Australia, Founder of SELinEdu, Advisor for Goldie Hawns’ MindUp Foundation and anti-bullying advocacy group PowerOfZero.
EduGrowth Program - Official Welcome and Opening remarks from EduGrowth Innovation Precinct
Tech and Teachers - Delivering Professional Development Beyond Compliance
The connection between effective teaching and student achievement is vital in learning. Enhancing the skills and knowledge of the education workforce is key. This session explores how technology is helping to deliver professional development to teachers above and beyond.
Adaptive Learning with Google Forms & Slides
Adaptive Learning helps students to engage and develop their understanding through personalised feedback and support. Discover how Google Forms and Slides can be used to produce adaptive learning paths and create customised resources to support student learning.
Highlighting the core changes in the Digital Curriculum 2022? Cyber, Data and Privacy
Find out more about changes to Cyber, Data and Privacy in the Digital Technologies Curriculum from one of the curriculum authors, Dr. James Curran.
Panel: Why cyber security is vital, not just for students, but Australia at large
Hear from cyber security experts on the need for all Australians to be cyber secure at home, school, and work.
Keynote - Deep Tech & Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to transform the manner in which students learn, teachers assess and classrooms operate. Join us as we explore how deep tech and deep learning is impacting the experience of students and teachers, and the many possible applications in the classroom.
Using Google Classroom as a Resource Library
Discover how Google Classroom can be used as a central repository for teaching resources. Classroom can ensure that teaching materials are gathered effectively in one place and then shared into student-facing Classrooms, while being retained by the school.
Confident, Creative and Capable - Inspiring the Entrepreneurial Generation in School
New Ways of Teaching for Contemporary Classrooms
History in Geoland - with a little help from Google Tools
Take your students beyond the classroom with Google Geo tools. Discover how you can use engage with history in your classroom through the use of Google Earth, World Atlas, online databases, ancient globes, dinosaurs and more!
Increasing Student Engagement in Class with ContentKeeper
PRIMM: a pedagogy for programming (primary/secondary)
The curriculum requires the teaching of programming and other DT topics to students of all ages, but few teachers have been taught pedagogical approaches to teach the subject effectively. In this talk, we will present the PRIMM methodology, and explain why it is an effective approach to develop the skills and knowledge in the curriculum to your students.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (3-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering using Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking advice on effective pedagogical approaches for teaching programming at their school.
Pitch Competition - Heat 1
EdTech Founders are up against the clock with just 3 minutes to articulate their innovation, the impact on learners, and their ultimate business case. Each heat will feature 3 Startups and Q&A. Heat winners will progress to the Pitch Competition Final Finals.
Choosing a programming language in high school (secondary)
With so many programming languages in use today it can be hard to know which ones are best suited for the classroom. In this talk we will discuss some of the considerations you need to make to select an appropriate programming language for teaching students, and give you some of our recommendations.
Who Should Attend?
- Secondary teachers (7-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering the using Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders looking for advice to design, refine and/or implement a Digital Technologies program at their school.
Workshop - PRIMM: a pedagogy for programming (primary/secondary)
Fuel Your Passion for Learning with Apple Teacher Learning Centre
Build new skills. Inspire your Students, Unlock the power of iPad and Mac in yourclassroom with Apple Teacher, a free professional learning program designed tosupport and celebrate educators using Apple products for teaching and learning.Join us to explore the Apple Teacher Learning Centre, where you can earn badgesand track your learning journey.
Blended and hybrid learning with Microsoft
Support hybrid and blended learning. Learn how Microsoft Teams provides innovative learning tools for both remote and physical environments.
Fast. Reliable. Cheap: The IT holy grail achieved
Fast. Reliable. Cheap. It's often said that managing IT only allows you to pick any two. This session will show you how Chromebooks with the Chome Education Upgrade can offer all three by changing the rules of IT management, significantly reducing the per device support time required.
150 Years of Public Education and technology
STEM students from Melbourne Girls' College will open the department’s EduTECH program with an exploration of how education and technology have developed over 150 years, since the Education Act 1872.
Join us for a walk down memory lane before celebrating the wide range of learning opportunities available to students today and imagining the future of education and technology in this inspiring presentation.
The Next Generation of ClassroomCare ® for Healthy Learning
How Technology is Improving Student Wellbeing
Supporting the wellbeing of a learner takes more than just a classroom approach. Hear from several innovative EdTech entrepreneurs on the importance of student wellbeing in an education setting and the amazing resources available to support students to achieve success and satisfaction in their learning.
Overview of all the changes in Curriculum
Charting the road to literacy
STEM Education Across Victoria and Beyond
Dr Kieu, MP, will explore the importance of STEM education for the future of our economy and the role of government in promoting and supporting STEM education, including encouraging women and girls to take up STEM in school and as a career.
Repercussions and defences for cyberattacks
Modern design considerations in Educational Infrastructure
Workforce planning - future skills, future workforce
The Victorian EdTech Ecosystem: Creating Connections for Global Growth
- How Victoria is positioning itself as a world-leader in edtech and education innovation
- The strengths that Victoria brings to the table
- Support provided by Global Victoria, Victoria’s trade promotion agency, for Victorian edtech companies
- What’s next for edtech and education innovation in Victoria
Diverse Education Needs & Inclusion Forum
In conjuction with Australian Special Education Principals' Association (ASEPA) and Australian Association of Special Education (AASE) and Autism CRCand Education Services Australia - this is a 2-hour breakout forum designed for classroom teachers, Heads of Inclusion, SENCo’s and Learning Support teachers looking for new ideas and inspiration to better assist and include students with diverse learning needs and behavioural challenges.
Presentationswill include -
Transformative Leadership for Equity and Inclusion
- Education systems around the world are developing policy frameworks to support greater equity for all within a context of global uncertainty and challenge, increasing school autonomy, accountability, and competition.
- The UNESCO Education 2030 Framework for Action emphasises inclusion and equity as laying the foundations for quality education. It also stresses the need to address all forms of exclusion and marginalisation, disparities and inequalities in access, participation, and learning processes and outcomes.
- While much progress has been made, schools in many countries continue to perpetuate inequality despite policy attempts to shift education towards inclusion.
- This presentation will provide an overview of a transformative approach to leadership drawing on Carolyn Shield’s work (Transformative Leadership Theory).
- We will report on the results of a six week professional learning program that involved school leaders, teachers and teacher aides who worked together in a short course to develop knowledge and skills to lead transformative school development for greater equity & inclusion.
Professor Suzanne Carrington, Research Professor, Centre for Inclusive Education QUT & School Years Director, Autism CRC & Tracey Taylor, Director of Education Policy, Independent Schools Australia
Applying NCCD within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports.
The NCCD collects data about school students with disability who are receiving adjustments across Australia in a consistent, reliable and systematic way. It enables schools, education authorities and governments to better understand the needs of students with disability and how they can be best supported at school. To support schools to implement the NCCD model, it is helpful to consider the associated activities and processes using a Multi-Tiered System of Supports. MTSS is a three-tiered framework for planning and organising a system-wide continuum of resources, structures and practices
Leanne Woodley, Senior Education Consultant, AISNSW
Empowering students with an intellectual disability in highschool
- An overview of the program we offer to students with an intellectual disability in highschool
- Skill development and experiences we provide to increase independence in the area of work readiness
- How to support and guide students with an intellectual disability and their families through the transition from school to post school options
Bianca Jervis, Life Skills Coordinator, Danebank Anglican School for Girls
Baringa SPS inclusionED Community of Practice
- Briefly introduce Baringa State Primary School (SPS) and the online inclusionED platform.
- Describe how inclusionED has been incorporated in the whole-of-school approach to meet the Baringa SPSmoral purpose that Each and every member of our school community, believes that each and every student can and will achieve.
- Share the learnings from the Baringa SPS whole-of-school implementation of inclusionED.
- Present a series of take home messages for schools engaged in building teachers’ capacity to develop their own inclusive practice.
Dr Keely Harper-Hill, Research Associate, Autism CRC,School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education (SECIE), QUT
Kelly Gorham, Head of Inclusion, Baringa State Primary School
Supporting Autistic secondary students using inclusionED
- What you need to know about Autism and learning
- How an analogy about spoons can help us understand emotional regulation
- Where to find teaching practices to create inclusive learning environments that support all students.
Trudy Barlett, Secondary teacher (Marsden State High School) and Research Project Officer (Queensland University of Technology)
About The Lab: a national network of locally run, not-for-profittechnology clubs for autistic young people
- The Lab is premised on connecting autistic young people with each other through mutual interests in technology. Because many autistic young people are profoundly socially isolated, the changes in their and their families' lives as a result of participation have often been dramatic
- The Lab deploys a locally based and run model. It has now grown to 35 locations around Australia since 2011, as well as an online Lab
- COVID-19 has been a strong and ongoing challenge, with Labs at local government venues introducing restrictions around vaccination levels, and other Labs halting activities. We're fortunate to have had the online Lab already in place and ready to respond, as well as a philanthropic grant to see us through.
Dr Stefan Schutt, Snr Lect. Learning Design/ICT/Digital Education and co-founder of The Lab (www.thelab.org.au), La Trobe, School of Education
Maths Forum
This 2 hour breakout forum has been designed in partnership with the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) and the Australian Maths Trust (AMT) specially for maths teachers who are looking for ways to improve student learning.
Chairperson - Janine Sprakel, National Partnerships and Engagement Manager, Australian Maths Trust
The Forum will kick off with -
The new Australian Curriculum: Mathematics version 9.0 – “What has changed and why?”
Rachael Whitney-Smith, Mathematics Curriculum Specialist, ACARA
- Embedding the mathematical proficiency strands into the curriculum content and achievement standards in an explicit and integrated way, raising the expectations for all students to become proficient in mathematics they are learning
- Connecting content within and across the strands of mathematics and making more explicit the key connections to general capabilities, cross curriculum priorities and to related content from other learning areas
- Describing the functionality of digital tools and emphasising where there is a need to use digital tools in the teaching, learning and assessing of mathematics
- What is new to the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics
Computational thinking looks new – but you’ve already been teaching it
Janine Sprakel, National Partnerships and Engagement Manager, Australian Maths Trust
In the latest version of the curriculum computational and algorithmic thinking features more strongly than ever before, but is it new content. Most teachers have been teaching computational thinking and problem solving for many years. In this session we will walk through the curriculum and make links that will strengthen the teaching and learning of problem solving and computational and algorithmic thinking in classrooms. We will discuss strategies that work, and the importance of taking the time to think and BE a problem solver for teachers as well as for students.
Knowing and Doing Mathematics
Dr Kristen Tripet, Program Manager, reSolve: Mathematics by Inquiry, Australian Academy of Science
- Students need to deeply know mathematics so the they can do mathematics fluently
- To build ‘knowers’ and ‘doers of mathematics’ we need to teach students in a way that builds their understanding of important mathematical concepts
- The types of tasks we use and the culture of learning in the classroom are key components of teaching for conceptual understanding in mathematics.
(Really) engaging maths learners F-8
Penny Addison, Director, Curriculum and Assessment Branch, DET Victoria
- Transforming mathematics pedagogies – where are we now and where do we need to be to make it robust, rich and relevant for kids [this will cover the Department’s latest guidance on how to teach mathematics at different stages of learning and development]
- Student centred learning design – showcasing the Department’s new mathematics resources (and why design matters) [this will cover (high level) the Department’s newest (and best yet!) resources that support this transformation]
The Self-paced, asynchronous Maths Class
Joel Speranza, Head of Mathematics, St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School
This presentation show how the lessons learnt from COVID and online learning can be applied in a face to face classroom.
Includes:
- How my students access the learning in a self-paced way
- Managing the power and responsibility that students have in an asynchronous maths class
- Teaching accountability, autonomy and self-regulation
- The role of a teacher in this new classroom
Q&A Session
Moderated by Allan Dougan, CEO, The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers
Scaffolding Scratch: keeping kids engaged (primary)
One of the strengths of Scratch is that it provides students with a creative outlet to demonstrate their programming knowledge and skills. This also creates a significant challenge – how do you ensure that the projects students build have the complexity necessary to develop and stretch their capability in Digital Technologies? In this talk, we’ll discuss how we use a concept-driven approach to scaffold learning, and design tasks with sufficient complexity to challenge and extend students.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Lower Secondary teachers (3-7) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering using Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking advice on effective pedagogical approaches for teaching programming at their school.
Using human centred design thinking and innovative technology to engage First Nations students
Discover how a collaborative Human Centred Design Thinking program engaged students, schools and the community and allowed First Nations students to connect to their culture through innovative technology.
The presentation will outline the development process, the power of working collaboratively and building on existing departmental activities and projects. Finally, we will showcase the outcomes of this project including the development of peer networks, increased student engagement in school and the blending of indigenous stories and culture with technology to create community focused projects.
From The Workshop to The Disruptor: Flipping the script during the pandemic
Chrome OS Flex: A new lease on life for aging devices
Chrome Flex transforms older PCs and Macbooks into powerful Chrome OS devices that are fast, secure and reliable. Reduce digital waste, extend the life of older computers and increase student access at no cost. This presentation will be illustrated by the wonderful work of Litehaus International.
The future of lasers in education is the software
Panel: National curriculum and national assessment driving improvement and supporting teachers to enhance student outcomes
Fireside Chat: How tech is shaping creativity, creative writing and literature - Up close and personal with Andy Griffith
Hands-on learning inspiring students into STEM
- STEM Industry School Partnerships program case study
- Australian and NSW Virtual STEM Academy enrichment programs
- Problem, project and inquiry based learning curriculum approaches in NSW
- Integrated STEM (iSTEM) Department Approved Elective
- Examples of hands on programs in Space, Cyber Security, & MedTech
Why school is never out on cyber security
- Duty of care
- Economic cost of bullying in Australian Schools
- Cybersecurity threats in K-12
- Hybrid homeschooling & the future school
- Cybersecurity to be taught in schools
MLC Nicholas Learning Centre – Innovation Teaching & Learning in Design & Practice
Evidence Informed design practice through Design Patterns.
Decentralisation has many benefits. It also means many players in the learning, capability and training sphere with varying levels of experience and expertise.
At Westpac Group we have been experimenting with various ways to share evidence-based practice, with resources, tools and templates to create learning that helps our people perform and develop their skills toward future roles.
Designing engaging Digital Technologies projects (primary/secondary)
In this talk, some of our Champion Teachers will share the projects they use and their pedagogical tips and tricks to deliver engaging Digital Technologies learning in their classrooms.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (3-12) and pre-service teachers looking for inspiration and ideas for enhancing their Digital Technologies classes.
Workshop - Scaffolding Scratch: keeping kids engaged (primary)
Identify and build social and emotional skills with Reflect
Learn how Reflect, built-into Teams, helps learners navigate their emotions, broaden their emotional vocabulary, and deepen empathy for their peers.
A paperless classroom: implementing Microsoft technologies in secondary education
Paperless “anything” has been talked about for years, though it is often seen but never really observed in real life. It can be extra challenging as a teacher to achieve this.
Hear from Digital Technology teacher Janene Watt about how she implemented Microsoft technologies in a secondary environment to create a paperless classroom.
Janene will delve into how she uses Microsoft Classroom Apps including Edge, Teams, Word, Sway and PowerPoint, Excel, Forms, One Note and Office.com.
Attendees will walk away with:
- an understanding of how teachers can enhance their digital teaching practices and pedagogies
- insight into Janene’s digital set-ups, practices and go-tos
- opportunities to explore how you could utilise different Microsoft tools in your own classroom and teaching communities.
Has Technology Delivered a Formative Assessment Utopia?
Technology promised to make the delivery of formative assessment a utopian dream, a place where student learning data can be accessed and interpreted with ease. This session will discuss how technology has redefined the delivery of assessment, review if it has delivered all that was promised and highlight opportunities for innovation.
Fireside Chat - The future of student experience in a post-pandemic world
The tertiary education sector continues to reimagine the student experience amid sustained demand for seamless, hybrid and tailored learning experiences. Developing new digital capabilities to satisfy changing expectations is imperative to student engagement and retention, enhancing learning and employment outcomes, and more effectively competing on the global stage.
This fireside discussion will focus on what’s driving the transformation of learning environments, how universities can respond and the significant implications for education providers, students, and the broader economy.
Distance is Nothing: Reshaping the learning environment
The pandemic taught us to be ready at any given moment, in case we were thrust into one of the many different variations of lockdown.
How have we measured the impact, managed the change and embraced transformation?
With technology that wouldn’t have even been possible 5-10 years ago at our fingertips, please join Lenovo to not
only see how the institution that is the school and the inner sanctum that is the classroom is now and forever changed
but how we need to be aware, prepare, welcome and enable the student digital natives. This is not just transformation
of learning but also changing culture.It’s about factoring everything in properly to begin the pathway to offering students
the opportunities regardless of location and to really showcase that with the enablement of collaboration platforms and
extending realities with emerging technology, distance is quite literally nothing.
Quick and easy creation of interactive classroom content that is accessible to all
Teachers should be empowered to be able to concentrate on what is most important – teaching their students in a safe and inclusive environment.
Resources designed for all pupils need to be accessible and adaptable. In this session, ex teacher turned Clevertouch Training Specialist, Ryan Stapleton gives an overview classroom software LYNX Whiteboard – designed to be used on interactive displays but also available for tablets, laptops and Chromebooks. Discover how to create resources for ease of access and how to implement resources you’ve already created.
Beyond the presentation, we will also be joined by Margaret Tope, Principal of The Victorian College for the Deaf, the only bilingual college of its kind in Australia, who will showcase how they partnered with ASI Solutions to integrate Clevertouch in their classrooms. The college is a specialist school that teaches the Victorian curriculum to deaf students and like all schools, places student safety as a top priority and was looking for a way to get important information rapidly to classrooms, while also creating an immersive learning environment.
Panel: Citizen Science to engage students in STEM
Responsibilities of ICT practitioners to protect data in the education sector
- Information Security obligations in Victorian schools
- It’s not just cyber risk: Information security includes personnel security and physical security
- How do we foster an ecosystem of safety?
- OVIC’s 2020 examination of the use of apps and web-based learning in Victoria: What did we find?
We need to know…! World industries and educators setting our future research agenda.
Over 270 experts across education, industries and academia have, for one year, being formulating our next generation of learning spaces research. Representing 21 countries, this group has been using the Innovative Learning Environments and Student Experience (Scoping Study) or ILE+SE, to identify what gaps exist in current research, and the priorities we must set for the next decade of research. This presentation will present the 20 gaps that were identified, the ‘top five’ (and bottom five) priorities, and plans for an unprecedented international project to address those needs.
The work has changed, and we are all dealing with more change and uncertainty. Learning work while working has become the new normal
- What does it mean to be learning while working
- The linkage between learning while working and learning ecosystems, learning with technologies and design thinking
- The new roles of employees, managers and learner professionals as:
self directed learners
learning leaders
learning ecosystem designers
Parsons problems - reading and understanding code (primary/secondary)
By challenging students to fix code, rather than write it, Parsons problems can be a very effective tool to teach how to read and interpret code.In this talk we will outline how to implement Parsons problems in the classroom when teaching Digital Technologies.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (3-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering the using Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking resources to support the implementation of the curriculum.
Reaching All Learners
More students are coming to school with a varying array of abilities, and educatorsare exploring new ways to not only support these learners, but to also personaliseevery student’s learning experience.Join us to learn about tools and resources from Apple that allow all students tocreate, communicate, personalise and explore in new and powerful ways.
Work Less, Teach More: Save time with Google for Education
Stop reinventing the wheel, and wasting time doing things the slow way! This session will help you discover how Google tools and features can save you time and help you focus on the high value activities of teaching and learning.
Designing innovative spaces
Inform your improvement initiatives by understanding how the design of places and spaces for innovation allows you to empower a learning community to take creative control of the future of learning.
This showcase is an opportunity to understand how the thoughtful transformation of spaces across secondary and tertiary STEM environments creates an innovative platform for design thinking, STEM research, and entrepreneurship results in profound impacts on students’ futures.
This presentation will touch on Brand Architects’ projects for Monash Tech School, Monash Maker Space, The Generator, and the upcoming Smart Manufacturing Hub.
Panel: Latest challenges and opportunities for Australian universities
What's now What's next with OneNote
See some of your favourite features reinvented and discover what's new in one of our all-time favourite tools for the classroom
Pitch Competition - Heat 2 - The Innovation Precinct Pitch Competition second heat! Hear from innovative EdTech companies at the cutting edge of innovation.
EdTech Founders are up against the clock with just 3 minutes to articulate their innovation, the impact on learners, and their ultimate business case. Each heat will feature 3 Startups and Q&A. Heat winners will progress to the Pitch Competition Finals.
Panel: What are the essential skills requirements for business and industry? Why are we teaching digital skills?
Industry leaders from Telstra and Accenture discuss what essential skills are required to ensure the future economic success of Australia.
Panel: Is there a place for technology in literacy? An enhancement or a hindrance?
Unpacking the digital curriculum, STEM and robotics - structuring and mapping curriculum K-12. Experiences of school coordinators and Heads of Technology
Creative thinking and collaboration in the hybrid, inclusive classroom
Panel: Learning Environments
Your next Coach is a chatbot' - Ridiculous or Reasonable?
What role do chatbots have to pay in transforming workplace learning? Can you imagine your next coaching session being with a chatbot?
In this session Emma will sharing real client examples, challenging both conventional wisdom and most likely, your thinking about what's possible with chatbots.
Session highlights will include:
- Discovering the areas outside of workplace learning are inspiring new ideas we can apply in our field
- Understanding the opportunities that chatbot data can present
- Future predictions for learning transfer
Designing a scope and sequence for Digital Technologies (primary/secondary)
The Digital Technologies subject is designed on the fundamental principle that core concepts are introduced and developed progressively as students move through the curriculum. In this talk, we’ll explain how this principle of design lends itself well to a multi-year scope and sequence, and how this can be used to inform decisions about your teaching programs in schools.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (F-10) looking to design learning programs that span multiple year levels in their schools.
- School Leaders, Curriculum Coordinators and ICT Integrators seeking to understand the breadth and depth of the Digital Technologies subject.
Workshop - Parsons problems - reading and understanding code (primary/secondary)
The future of flexible / hybrid learning
What have we gained from the pandemic? An accelerated path to the future of learning!
Future-thinking education leaders around the world are leveraging the learnings and opportunities of the pandemic to create their vision and build new flexible learning ecosystems at their institutions.Meanwhile, others are wondering why not just go back to "the way it was"?
From the chaotic pivot to emergency remote teaching toward an intentional strategy for the future of learning, we will explore the key opportunities and challenges for administrators, educators and students.
Geocoding using Google Sheets
Help students visualise spatial information more easily to really understand the meaning behind the data. Learn how to create an interactive map of real-world data using Google Forms, Google Sheets and geo tools.
Why is WiFi Important in Education – Why Cambium Networks
Building for tomorrow’s success by collaborating in today’s classroom.
Collaborative learning has had a space in the educational landscape for quite some time. While the benefits of collaboration are recognized, the transferable skills needed for ever-changing learning environments and beyond are lacking. Join this session to learn more about the strategies and resources that can be used to enhance student collaboration in today’s classroom for the success of students tomorrow.
School transformation: a framework for developing digital capability (primary/secondary)
The WA Department of Education has embarked on a project to help schools in WA increase their digital capability – for teaching, learning and administrative functions of their schools. In this talk, we’ll present the research behind the development of their Digital Capability Framework (DCF), and run through the ways the DCF tool helps schools evaluate their digital capability, and set strategic goals for developing it further.
Who Should Attend?
- School leaders seeking to understand their school’s existing digital capability, and looking to develop this further as part of their strategic agenda.
- Departmental administrators and leaders looking for tools to help their schools transform their practice to embrace digital tools to improve their effectiveness and productivity.
Foster inclusive classrooms with Microsoft 365
Explore how free Microsoft 365 tools can create inclusivity and support special education needs in reading, writing, math, and communication.
Female Leaders Changing Education and EdTech Outcomes
Educator ranks across the globe are dominated by women. Now the EdTech sector is benefiting from the leadership of great female executives and entrepreneurs. Hear how these amazing female leaders are changing education with technology driven change.
Understanding the Digital Technologies curriculum (primary/secondary)
The Digital Technologies subject is more than just programming and networks – it is constructed on the foundation of a series of core concepts that not only define the progression of knowledge and skills students develop from Foundation to Year 10, but by their very nature help students become digitally capable citizens. In this talk, we’ll deep-dive into the principles behind the design of the subject, and the decisions made to ensure it remains relevant as technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace.
For more information about the AC:DT please visit our Understand the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies site.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (F-12) and pre-service teachers interested in developing a greater understanding of the fundamental principles and core concepts of the Digital Technologies subject.
- Curriculum coordinators and school leaders seeking a greater understanding of the place of Digital Technologies in the broader school curriculum.
Workshop - School transformation: a framework for developing digital capability (primary/secondary)
Bring Learning to Life with Augmented Reality
First hand experience is one of the most powerful ways to learn. Augmented realityapps on iPad let students bring digital objects into the real world to spark curiosity nbsp;and enhance understanding. Join us to explore how you can use the Keynote App and AR Makr App to create interactive augmented reality experiences with iPad.
Supporting EALD Learners using Google for Education tools
Chrome offers an incredible library of powerful extensions available through the Chrome Webstore. In this session you will learn how to harness Chrome extensions and other tools within Google Workspace for Education to support EALD learners in your classroom.
Using the right Technology in the right way to enhance Teaching and Learning outcomes
Architecture for Digital Transformation
EdTech provides the tools to innovate the learning experience for educators and their students. The innovation can be something as basic as an online worksheet to complex Augmented Reality. This session will explore how far we can push the boundaries of what is possible in the classroom through technology.
Web development and its place in the curriculum (secondary)
Web development has been used to teach Digital Technologies for years, but how well does it meet the requirements of the Australian Curriculum? Modern web development tools and techniques provide plenty of opportunities to meet the goals of the curriculum, and in this talk we’ll explain the different ways modern web technologies can be used in the classroom.
Who Should Attend?
- Secondary teachers (7-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering the using the Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking resources to support the implementation of the curriculum.
Data, data, data – why are we actually bothering to collect all this data and is it distracting teachers from their ‘real’ job?
Scaffolding tasks and supporting students with Google Docs
Google Docs is an effective tool for helping you and your students stay organised, focused and on track. This session explores a range of new functionality within Google Docs, and will demonstrate how it can be used in your classroom.
What does A-grade digital transformation look like in schools?
Panel: Using digital tools to enhance 21st century skills
Achieving Hybrid Learning Equity with Professional Video Solutions".
Redesigning play space in Australian schools
Getting fit for hybrid learning
There will be more demand for hybrid learning but are we ready, and is it effective?
This talk explores the possibilities, drivers and challenges to overcome for successful hybrid learning models in the workplace. You will walk away with how you can structure hybrid learning in your programs and top tips for the planning, technology, resources, and facilitation skills for both shoestring budgets to high-end productions to better the learning experiences.
Promoting a ‘Fair Go’: Making equitable access to a university education a national imperative
One of our nation’s most widely accepted and deeply ingrained cultural beliefs is that all Australians deserve a “fair go”. However, an analysis of who attends our universities shows that not all segments of Australian society are getting a fair go when it comes to advancing their knowledge, skills and career opportunities through higher education.
This session will explore: (1) how and why particular segments of Australian society are still under-represented in our universities; (2) what we can do to remove the barriers to a university education; and (3) why it’s in Australia’s national interest to give all would-be scholars a fair go.
Digital Literacy vs. Digital Technologies: understanding the differences (primary/secondary)
Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum has brought with it updates to both the Digital Technologies subject and the Digital Literacy capability (previously ICT). In this talk, we’ll go through the things that make each of these parts of the curriculum unique, and how this can inform the design of learning programs across all Learning Areas.
Who Should Attend?
- All Primary and Secondary teachers (F-10) – find out how student learning in Digital Technologies can enable rich opportunities in other learning areas
- School Leaders, Curriculum Coordinators and ICT Integrators seeking to understand the role digital literacy plays in the delivery of effective digital integration across Learning Areas.
Workshop - Web development and its place in the curriculum (secondary)
Pitch Competition - Heat 3 - The Innovation Precinct Pitch Competition third heat! Hear from innovative EdTech companies at the cutting edge of innovation.
EdTech Founders are up against the clock with just 3 minutes to articulate their innovation, the impact on learners, and their ultimate business case. Each heat will feature 3 Startups and Q&A. Heat winners will progress to the Pitch Competition Finals.
Microsoft Learn, Your New CPD Platform
Find interactive lessons, earn professional development hours, acquire certifications & find programs that help meet your goals with the new Microsoft Learn Educator Center.
Bringing the Joy Back to Learning – Undoing the Disruption
It’s more important now than ever to engage students in learning, get them interested in STEM/STEAM subjects, cultivate a growth mindset and instill a love for lifelong learning and to do that, we have to rethink our education systems. Learning through play cultivates the physical, intellectual, emotional and creative abilities of students by developing 21st century skills such as collaboration, curiosity and creativity. Hear from LEGO® Education about the LEGO Learning System and how it can re-engage our students by bringing hands-on learning and purposeful play into the classroom while undoing the recent disruption which has caused a large number of students to disengage from school – now is the time to reignite their joy.
Panel: The new role of technology in the post pandemic maths classroom
Two years of hard yards – what have we learned?
AI in Action / AI-Driven Networking - Juniper Networks
Hear real life use cases of our customers on how AI has transformed IT operations and user experiences across their campuses, providing better outcomes for students, faculty and IT teams.
Reinventing play in the schoolyard
Gamification for training
Games are a powerful tool for the training of skills and behaviours across a range of contexts. Games adapt, are versatile and can target specific aims and needs. Understanding the fundamentals of game design can help you to train staff, build knowledge, gain skills, and foster a sense of teamwork and motivation all while having a good time.
- Learn to harness the power of game design in staff training and professional development.
- Foster a sense of teamwork and motivation while having fun and building skills.
- Gain a deeper insight into how games are currently being used for specific training purposes around the world.
The Academic Perspective: How to bring academics along for the digital transformation journey
Teaching object-oriented programming (secondary)
The Australian Curriculum sets out an expectation that students learn the fundamental principles of object-oriented programming (OOP) in Years 9 and 10. In this talk, we’ll lay out the OOP principles students should be learning, and provide strategies and examples of how to teach these principles in the classroom.
Who should attend?
- Secondary Teachers (9-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and senior secondary programming subjects.
Workshop - Digital Literacy vs. Digital Technologies: understanding the differences (primary/secondary)
30 Time-saving Tips for Teachers
In this hands-on session, we will share a collection of simple activities that make iteasy to stay on task and organised when teaching with iPad. Learn new ways touse the built-in apps and features of iPad, and share your favourite time-savingtips with other teachers.
Teacher Productivity: Give yourself more time!
Through the demonstration of simple tools, workflows and habits, you will learn effective organisational and productivity strategies for busy teachers looking to improve their work-life balance and make the most of each day.
Minecraft - The STEM and sustainable practices of the First Nations people
Soula, Mahaelia and David will demonstrate how a gaming platform such as Minecraft can be used to explore sustainable thinking and understand the sustainable practices and knowledge of our First Nations People of Victoria.
Kai's Clan, all-in-one STEAM Toolbox
Panel: Analytics for school leaders
The Ethical Consideration in Education Technology Design
As EdTech capability evolves, so will the ethical implications of its use. This session will explore how the sector can support the development of technology while retaining social responsibility, and highlight the emerging responsibilities of people in the design and deployment of technology in schools.
Powerful insights made simple with Education Insights for Microsoft Teams
Explore how Education Insights can empower educators with actionable data and analytics about student engagement, well-being, performance, and more.
Panel: How do we integrate numeracy progression into a digital classroom
Robotics for Humans
Fireside Chat with a Dept of Education School, Alamanda College - Juniper Networks
Join Juniper Networks for a Fireside Chat with Alamanda College to find out how they transformed their campus experience with an AI Driven network.
Planning for growth – how the Victorian government plans schools for new communities
Panel - Productivity - Home vs Office. The Great Debate!
Work integrated learning at scale and its tripartite impact
The benefits of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) are well established, but so are its challenges. In this session, we address one of the most critical challenges of WIL - scalability. Scalability is the cornerstone of bringing industry experience to each and every student completing a university degree, but most existing WIL initiatives only offer boutique-style learning opportunities for small cohorts of students. This session will introduce the Sandbox experiential learning pedagogy pioneered by the UNSW Sandbox Program (unsw.to/sandbox) and discuss how the pedagogy has transformed 13 courses across 4 disciplines into real-world “Sandboxes” that have brought 55 contemporary industry challenges from 22 industry partners to over 4,300 students in less than 3 years.
Future Forward School Libraries Forum
This information-packed 2 hour breakout forum has been produced in conjunction with the Australian School Library Association (ASLA) covering all the latest trends and developments in the world of library management. We explore how libraries are evolving, and how the job of the Librarian is becoming more of an ‘information facilitator’.
Forum Introduction and Welcome
Natalie Otten, President, ASLA
How to Do Advocacy in These Stormy Times
- Identify where your school library sits within the current national landscape of school library staffing
- Select from a range of practical actions you can use to advocate for school library services in the current ‘stormy’ times in education
Holly Godfree, Teacher Librarian, Lake Tuggeranong College
Creating & Future Proofing an Inquiry Hub
- Libraries as drivers of pedagogical change.
- Gathering momentum and harnessing the power of your staff.
- Penrhos College success story.
Shannon Armitage, Dean of Academic Achievement and Innovation, Penrhos College
Will Horwood, Head of Library and Digital Literacy, Penrhos College
Fighting Fake News: equipping students to become discerning consumers of information
- Approaches to embedding information literacy across disciplines, including an overview of existing resources.
- Promoting skills in navigating the information landscape, targeted searching, and awareness of algorithms.
- Equipping students to identify misinformation and disinformation.Practical ways to teach fact checking and verification using authoritative sources.
Bridget Forster, Teacher-Librarian, Strathcona Baptist Girls’ Grammar School
Information Fluency Framework: a NSW journey
- Information Fluency is the ability to critically think while engaging with, creating, and utilising information and technology regardless of the platform or medium used.
- Information Fluency is core to enabling lifelong learners and incorporates the General Capabilities from the Australian Curriculum.
- Embedding Information Fluency in our work as teachers and teacher librarians is a pathway for teacher librarians to ensure that we enable world ready students who are fluent, effective and ethical learners.
June Wall, Professional Development Coordinator, NSW Dept of Education
Accessing Information
- Auditing and assessing information literacy skills in the Year 7 cohort
- Collaborating with subject teachers to teach information skills in Year 7
- Explicit teaching of notetaking to Junior school students
Anne Girolami,Information Services Leader, Mercy College andASLA Australian Teacher Librarian of the Year 2021
Open Discussion
This will be a great opportunity for you to ask any questions you have on school libraries and the role of the teacher librarian.
Led by Natalie Otten, President, ASLA
Who should attend?
- Librarians
- School Librarians
- Heads of eLearning
- Heads of Library
- Teacher Librarians
- Library staff and managers
- Information Services Managers
- Digital Curriculum Coordinators
Making with micro:bit: programming the real world (primary/secondary)
Are you looking for a cheap, accessible and flexible hardware solution to support the delivery of your Digital Technologies program? In this talk, we’ll demonstrate the power of the BBC micro:bit, show you how this one resource can be used to build a multi-year digital technology program in your school, and showcase some examples of simple projects suitable for all year levels.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (3-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering the using the Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking resources to support the implementation of the curriculum.
Workshop - Teaching object-oriented programming (secondary)
Using Google to encourage independent learners in the STEM classroom
Maria will share ideas and examples of what has worked in the STEM classroom with a particular focus on Year 3 to 6 students, using Google for Education Workspace tools to encourage independent learning.
Perfecting wireless presentation for the classroom
The role of evidence learning, the power of feedback and the technology to support this
Teachers using accessibility software to support students
Applying an ‘Universal Design for Learning’ approach to teaching and learning should allow all students to participate in classroom activities. There is also some great potential within these tools to improve and increase teacher productivity, especially around minimising administrivia. Video, audio and media approaches to inclusion will be outlined with real-world experiences to support their successful use.
Immersive Learning
The Most Significant Change in 33 Years: Unleashing the Next Generations of Wi-Fi for Learning
Fireside Chat: Outdoor learning spaces
Employee engagement & performance - Unleashing discretionary effort
What roles do AI and Data Analytics play in enabling smart campuses to go further in the Digital 4.0 journey? What are some key learnings from successful institutions in achieving such ambitions?
Azendian Solutions has partnered leading institutions to apply AI for a quantum leap in progressing every learner to their fullest attainable potential while stretching the education dollars, looking into the future rather than managing via the rear view mirror.
Prerequisites for an effective Digital Technologies programme (primary/secondary)
Delegates are invited to join the Digital Technologies Curriculum authors to hear a range of strategies for rolling out the Digital Technologies subject effectively in your school. Take this opportunity to find out about some of the resources that have been developed specifically to help your staff and support your students as they meet the challenges of the future.
Who Should Attend?
- School leaders seeking to better understand how they can support the effective delivery of Digital Technologies in their school.
- Primary and Secondary teachers (F-10) looking to make a case to their school leadership teams to increase the profile of Digital Technologies in their school.
Workshop - Making with micro:bit: programming the real world (primary/secondary)
Learning through game design: An introduction to Unreal Engine
Discover how Ballarat Tech School engages students with Unreal Engine, an innovative and high-tech learning program in game design. Students utilise critical and creative thinking, personal and social reasoning and design thinking to create their very own game.
The program has a major focus on STEM’s Technology and Mathematic disciplines, with students leveraging ever advancing technology to create amazing environments quickly and easily, while advanced users wanting to create interesting physics displays, custom game object behaviours and unique logic will flex their mathematics muscles to produce their desired outcomes.
Technology Deployment in a Cyber-Vigilant Society
Privacy and data security is as relevant as ever with the development of technology expanding into unregulated territory. Visibility on the security implications of an EdTech solution is essential for building trust within education. This session will discuss the role of efficacy in meeting the requirements of the cyber-vigilant consumer.
Introducing the all-new Flip!
Discover how Flipgrid's updates and new, easy-to-use features can amplify and empower every student's voice!
Utilising mobile technology beyond the boundaries of school
As we move into a world where mobile is king, students need to work beyond the boundaries of school
- School of the past was bound where learning happened in one place, and information came from another. Now, we can bridge that gap
- The use of 5G and mobile extends the classroom so students can explore, consider, collaborate and be creative in new ways, using mobile technology
- The skills learnt go far beyond the specific apps they use – these associated learnings are forming their adaptivity to a complex, evolutionary world
- Using mobile technologies builds a gateway between school and industry; the learning is in situ – just in time, on time and on site.
- Products like IoT and data can be collected anywhere, analysed anywhere, and applied in context
- We are breaking down the walls of education, to build a learning culture that transcends school, home, work and social.
Best Practice for Vertical School Architecture
- Vertical School Architecture is a case study analysis of the spatial planning for secondary co-educational multi-storey school models in inner-urban areas across the globe.
- Land economics, tight site restrictions and large accommodation briefs require a school design more aligned with high-rise construction than its suburban predecessors, posing new opportunities and challenges for the facilitation of education, student wellbeing and city-making.
- The spatial organisation patterns that emerge in vertical school design precedents are documented and considered as a resource to assist the thinking of architects, school administrations and government officials when delivering school architecture of a similar type.
This presentation will summarise the main findings:
Opportunities -
- Building upward can create a much richer and more connected school community.
- Public shared ground floor facilities to enhance civic infrastructure.
Challenges -
- Significant demand on vertical circulation and how to improve upon it.
- Lack of quality and quantity of outdoor spaces and how to maximise outdoor opportunities.
Where students go wrong: debugging programming pitfalls (secondary)
We’ve seen hundreds of thousands of attempts from students solving all kinds of programming problems over many years running the NCSS Challenge and our DT Challenges. Analysis of those submissions has allowed us to understand the most common mistakes students make when attempting to write their own programs, and in this talk we’ll share our insights with you!
Who Should Attend?
- Secondary teachers (7-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and develop their knowledge of debugging and remediation strategies for common programming pitfalls.
Design Your First App in Keynote
In this session we will explore the cross-curricular potential of App design andprototyping.Haven’t yet started giving training on code? This is your perfect first step! Startyour coding journey in Keynote with the Why. Through project based learning,students get a voice, they can solve problems they care about and understandthat with coding they can achieve the impact they dream of having!You will walk away from this session with all the resources for teaching & learningyou need to lead conversations with schools to start their coding journey bytapping into the passion of students through inclusive app design.
Using Google Workspace for Education for Reading Strategies
This session will demonstrate how to use Google for Education tools like Jamboard, Slides and Docs to build effective and collaborative close reading lessons across any subject area.
Impact of Intelligent Learning Platform on Australian Education
Improve reading fluency: Reading Progress and Reading Coach in Microsoft Teams
Learn how you can help readers build confidence and accelerate reading fluency using exciting features of Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams.
How to embed VR in learning - Presented by Education Queensland's VR Learning and Design Hub
- Supporting young people reach their potential in a global technological world
- Virtual Reality: Serving the Australian Curriculum
- The Pillars of Success for effective embedding of VR in learning
- Immersive Pedagogy – Curriculum Alignment and Design
- Live demonstration of the VR Learning & Design Hub modules
Video games or homework - why not both
Using drones to teach the Digital Technologies Curriculum in an innovative and engaging way
Panel: Influence through partnership, not power: Winning over your executive team
Cyber security in the Australian Curriculum (primary/secondary)
Helping students understand the risks of personal information security and data sharing is vitally important in the digital age.In this workshop, we will look at changes to the Digital Technologies subject and Digital Literacy capability (formerly, the ICT Capability) in the Australian Curriculum.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (5-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering the using the Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking resources to support the implementation of the curriculum.
Workshop - Where students go wrong: debugging programming pitfalls (secondary)
Software for connected learners panel
We know that technology has the ability to transform teaching, but are you utilising the digital tools available to you to deliver exceptional learning experiences?
Hear from this panel of experts about the range of software available to Victorian Government schools and deep dive into the functionality and usability of programs including Education Perfect, Adobe, ClickView and Boardmaker.
We know that technology has the ability to transform teaching, but are you utilising the digital tools available to you to deliver exceptional learning experiences?
Hear from this panel of experts about the range of software available to Victorian Government schools and deep dive into the functionality and usability of programs including Education Perfect, Adobe, ClickView and Boardmaker.
We know that technology has the ability to transform teaching, but are you utilising the digital tools available to you to deliver exceptional learning experiences?
Hear from this panel of experts about the range of software available to Victorian Government schools and deep dive into the functionality and usability of programs including Education Perfect, Adobe, ClickView and Boardmaker.
Dumb phone, smart phone - the future of universities
Data Driven Learning Intelligence with Google Workspace Plus
In this session we will demonstrate some powerful and practical ways in which data from Google Workspace Plus and Chromebooks can be analysed through Google Cloud and triangulated with additional data sources to gain powerful insights into learner growth.
All your digital learning resources in one secure place
Building a more personal future for Education
AI-powered adaptive learning technology provides students with in-the-moment feedback, enhances the education experience and saves time for all. Hear how Google’s latest AI-driven technology encourages students to pursue their personal potential by being active navigators in their own learning process and how adaptive learning technology can help transform the future of education.
Digital technologies across the curriculum - "Every teacher is a digitech teacher"
The LEGO Learning System: Problem-Solving through Play
How do you prepare a student for a world where the Digital Technology landscape is still being invented? How do you ensure that transferable skills (such as computational thinking, problem-solving, logical deduction and even lateral thinking and creativity) can be nurtured and extended with both the head and the hands? Using the interconnected and scalable LEGO Learning System – like LEGO Education Spike Essential (for GrK-5) and Spike Prime (for Yr6-8) – this presentation will see a practical demonstration of how to engage students in a ‘hands on’ reverse engineering lesson. By harnessing the students’ past experience with the familiar LEGO brick, pairing it with the intuitive Spike coding and automation, and packaged into a learning activity by two teachers with 40 years’ experience between them, this session will have you redesigning the way you approach problem-solving through play.
Hidden Secrets in Derived Data
This presentation from a panel of legal practitioners, IT director and cyber risk expert will decipher the myriad of applicable IT security policies and technologies options to prepare for the foreshadowed changes to the Privacy Act in the backdrop of the Online Privacy Bill Exposure Draft[5].
OAIC has warned of the privacy risks with de-identified data[1]. Information is considered to be de-identified where there is no reasonable likelihood of re-identification occurring. De-identified data is not considered personal information and is therefore not subject to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act).
The current review of the Privacy Act by the Attorney-General’s Department[2] explored the impact of technical or derived information in the definition of personal information (in chapter 2 /page 21 in the Discussion Paper[3]). The 2017 OAIC and CSIRO-Data61 ‘De-Identification Decision-Making Framework’[4] is a practitioner guide intended to eliminate the need to ‘call in the experts’.
[1] https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/guidance-and-advice/de-identification-and-the-privacy-act
[2] https://www.ag.gov.au/integrity/consultations/review-privacy-act-1988
[3] https://consultations.ag.gov.au/rights-and-protections/privacy-act-review-discussion-paper/
[4] https://www.data61.csiro.au/en/Our-Research/Our-Work/Safety-and-Security/Privacy-Preservation/De-identification-Decision-Making-Framework
[5] https://consultations.ag.gov.au/rights-and-protections/online-privacy-bill-exposure-draft/
Assessing Digital Technologies effectively (primary/secondary)
Assessing a student’s understanding and skills in Digital Technologies should be done using a range of tools and strategies, but what works best? And how do you design a task that is achievable for all, but provides opportunities for your high achievers to extend themselves? In this talk we’ll address both of these questions, and present some examples of assessment instruments that meet these goals.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (3-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and design effective assessment instruments.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking resources to support the implementation of the curriculum.
Workshop - Cyber security in the Australian Curriculum (primary/secondary)
Solving the world's toughest problems with Minecraft
Climate change is reshaping our environment. Discover how Minecraft helps students engage in creative problem solving for today's toughest issues.
Building successful industry partnerships for teaching and learning - Lessons learned from the Bean and Dawkins Review"
- What we learned from Industry as part of our review of industry collaboration in teaching and learning.
- What were our recommendations and why we believe they matter?
- What is the opportunity for universities to work with industry to support lifelong learning?
Panel: How can digital literacy and critical thinking co-exist
Delivering the future focused skills using the digital curriculum across all subject areas.
Panel: The current and potential role of drones in education
STEM: integration strategies for success (primary/secondary)
Many schools choose to deliver Digital Technologies through a combined STEM program, which brings with it real opportunities for rich contextualisation of learning across subjects. It also brings with it significant challenges – how do you ensure every learning area is treated as a first-class citizen in your learning program? We’ll discuss this issue, and present strategies you can use to ensure your STEM program stays on track to deliver on its promise to students.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (3-10) and pre-service teachers looking to understand how to teach digital technologies in an integrated STEM programme.
Workshop - Assessing Digital Technologies effectively (primary/secondary)
Manaiakalani: Digital Equity and Inclusion
Manaiakalani is a network of over 120 low socio-economic and remote schools in NZ that ensure students and families are at the forefront of learning in the digital age. Learn how they have removed barriers by harnessing Chromebooks and Workspace to enable participation and collaboration.
Interactive touchscreens in education
How universities can re-build and attract international students post-Covid
Panel - AI in education
St Mary's Reinvent the Classroom with Chromebooks
This presentation will explore how Reinvent the Classroom, a program run in partnership with HP and Google, has combined school-wide strategic professional learning, Google Educator certifications for teachers, and an architectural redesign of existing classrooms to maximise contemporary learning.
Engage the neurodiverse and apply literacy skills - Filmmaking in the classroom.
In this session, Lindsay will focus on the importance of using film and media to engage, develop and apply literacy skills in students whilst enhancing their media competencies. He will explore how filmmaking lends itself to greater literacy comprehension in students by offering a dynamic alternative method of information presentation and processing that is favoured by the "Digital Native Generation", proving particularly advantageous for neurodiverse and visual learners. He then will conclude by explaining how StarTime can support building a strategic and sustainable film and media literacy culture at your school; thereby increasing the accesibility of the curriculum to a diverse array of students.
Inspiring Innovators of Tomorrow
Join Intel to explore how technology is enabling innovators all way from the classroom to building AI driven models.
The Google for Education Demo Slam
There's always something new and interesting to discover with Google for Education. Stick around for this fun Demo Slam, where presenters will get just three minutes to showcase something cool, useful or interesting (and of course educational) you can do with Google tools!
Panel: How to teach students to recognise “fake news”
Create your personal agenda –check the favourite icon
Inspirational teachers catalyse STEM achievement
- STEM is critical to Australia’s future
- Lessons from Gene Technology Access Centre (GTAC) and other STEM centres
- Women and girls in science
The changing face of pedegogy
- Reflect on how students learn in today's technology-enabled world
- Explore the connection between innovative pedagogies and available technologies
- Investigate examples of innovative pedagogies and technologies
What’s new in the Australian Curriculum
- Understanding the shift from an ICT capability to Digital Literacy
- Exploring the structural changes to the capability and connections to other general capabilities
- Understanding the changes to the Digital Technologies curriculum
Panel: Benefits of a strategic focus on ransomware and cyber security for schools
Softer, lower walls: why learning is escaping out of doors
- Before the pandemic learning was beginning to escape from the boxes we had placed it in: curriculum specifics, levels, assessment criteria, classrooms, campuses, age phases, duration and more.
- During, and since that pandemic the escape has begun to look like a stampede as learning elsewhere, stage not age, lifelong learning, learning families and more are producing a new learning landscape with technology as a core enabler;
- in particular the fresh locations of learning - once expensively contained in bespoke education buildings - have opened up a new life of nomadic campuses and wholly outdoor learning.
- The impact of this on everything from the capital cost of education to the sheer joy of learning is proving to be dramatic.
What works in addressing the wicked problem of cheating?
What does a CIO need to know to be ready to support their institution in a COVID recovering world? - a Vice Chancellor perspective
- What are the major shifts impacting Higher Education in Australia and globally?
- What are the enabling digital capabilities that a university needs to meet the challenges or unlock the opportunities?
- How can a CIO open the minds of their executive and council to invest for success?
Panel: Collaboration with industry and TAFE
Early Childhood Educators Forum
In conjunction with the Early Learning Association Australia (ELAA) and by special request, we have produced a break-out forum designed to upskill and inspire pre-school and kindy teachers and administrators.
Some topics covered include -
Implications of Australian policy and funding reforms in early childhood education and care
David Worland, CEO, ELAA
Understand the latest early childhood education and care policy and funding reforms across both State and Federal Government in Australia
Understand the opportunities and challenges presented by these reforms on:
- Children
- Families
- Service providers
- Teachers and educators.
The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers in the Early Childhood context
Linda Blakis, Professional Practice Manager, Victorian Institute of Teaching
- Early Childhood guiding documents and the standards
- Exemplar of practice using the standards
- Resources for Early Childhood Teachers from VIT
Play in a digital society
Jo Bird, Senior Lecturer - Early Childhood Education, University of New England
- Children see technologies everywhere and want them in their place spaces.
- Consider what children do with technologies not just time spent (creators versus consumers).
- Encourage digital literacy and discuss digital ethics and set up rules and boundaries
- Scaffold their learning around technologies and don’t be afraid to learn together.
Making the most of partnerships with families
Joanne Tarasuik, Research Manager, Playgroup Victoria
- Fostering parents’ engagement in their children’s learning journey
- Promoting the early home learning environment
- Creating continuity of learning across environments
- Empowering parents to stimulate their child
Panel: Using apps safely in the classroom
Joanne Tarasuik, Research Manager, Playgroup Victoria
Jordy Kaufman, Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
Trent Ray, Co-Founder & Cyber Safety Educator
And much more....keep an eye on this Forum for more details..
Reducing Risk in Your IT Infrastructure
Learn about how Microsoft can help your institution to reduce risk of vulnerabilities due to ageing IT infrastructure, explore migration options and open up your educational organisation to innovation and modernisation.
Show what you know with Google Educator Certifications
Google for Education provides an impressive set of tools and technologies for schools. However, beyond the tools is a collection of training and certification pathways for educators to grow their understanding of technology use, and recognise and validate their skills.
Bendigo Tech School girls in STEAM electric car project
Building powerful industry partnerships to engage women and girls in STEAM pathways.
The Bendigo Tech School Girls in STEAM Electric Car Project is an aspirational community enterprise initiative designed to encourage young women to explore engineering and trades pathways. Over 24 months, the students are restoring and converting a Range Rover Classic into a Tesla powered 4WD with guidance from a range of industry partners including Jaunt Motors. This mini master class will unpack the ‘secret sauce’ of creating impactful industry/education partnerships.
Thriving by design
It’s time to reclaim your energy, clarity, and confidence, because your staff and students are watching, and they’re about to learn the most important lesson of all: we all deserve to feel good and function well.
In this session, we will explore:
- The ripple effect our everyday choices have on the way we feel, function and relate to others.
- How to move beyond our excuses and take more deliberate action.
- The five patterns of behaviour that are keeping you wired and tired.
Enhance creativity in any curriculum area with Adobe
“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” Sir Ken Robinson, 2006.When Sir Ken Robinson made this statement during his 2006 TED Talk (still the most watch TED Talk) it was considered controversial. Today, the importance of creativity in society and the business world is accepted as normal thinking but it is still a fight to give creativity a strong status in education.This presentation by Dr Tim Kitchen from Adobe, will outline the importance of enhancing creativity in all curriculum areas. It will also provide practical support around how and why Adobe tools can make such a positive difference to digital literacy, communication engagement and (most importantly) creativity within any curriculum area.
Raising Heretics: Teaching STEM and Critical Thinking Skills using Real Problems
Case Study: Xavier College Digital Transformation Strategy
Inclusive learning spaces
Panel: Academic Integrity
AI in Action/AI-Driven Networking - Juniper Networks
Hear real life use cases of our customers on how AI has transformed IT operations and user experiences across their campuses, providing better outcomes for students, faculty and IT teams.
Compliance & Regulation
Official Welcome - Opening remarks from EduGrowth Innovation Precinct partners.
Leveraging big data for student inquiry
This presentation will help enable educators to unlock the potential of publicly available scientific databases and online tools for student-centred investigations.
Since the publication of the human genome, the digital store of biological data has grown explosively. These databases are the foundation of the contemporary field of bioinformatics. With some basic training, these publicly accessible databases are a rich resource for school students to conduct their own life-sciences research. Bring your device along!
We’ll explore the interaction between coronavirus spike protein and its human receptor protein, presenting examples of data mining and online analysis that can be used by students on their devices at home or in the classroom.
Enhance Digital Security and Compliance
For educators, security is one of the greatest concerns they face today. Explore how Microsoft Solutions can keep your students, teachers, and school safe with built-in capabilities, cloud-powered intelligence and the highest standards of security, privacy and compliance. Let’s explore how to use Microsoft Threat Protection to transform digital security for education organizations while also securing and protecting the data.
Entrepreneurship Interview - Developing an Original Idea
In this entrepreneur interview, hear from a leading founders as they share their journey from developing an original idea, overcoming challenges and creating impact. This session is a must-see for aspiring entrepreneurs in the sector.
Gamify your Google Professional Learning
Are your staff ready to level up? Do you need invigorated staff development? This session will share how a Google Reference School has brought to life the goal of having EVERY staff member obtain their Google Educator Level 1 certification, and the effect this has had on staff growth.
Solutions for whole-school wellbeing
Wellbeing is always a key concern in schools. The wellness of leaders, staff and students are inextricably linked and constantly interacting, so when pressure hits one area, it affects all of them. It’s no surprise, then, that the events of the past two years – which have placed schools under greater pressure than in living memory – have taken a toll. Our Wellbeing Report, substantiates this. Although Australian teachers continue to be confident, motivated and retain strong relationships with their students, they are struggling with spiralling workloads, and feeling that their voices are not heard. In our session/fireside chat (?) we will discuss the findings of our wellbeing report and share practical examples of what schools are doing to improve wellbeing. We'll also share innovative ways technology can support your teachers – by reducing their workloads, enabling flexible working, and empowering staff.
Panel: Recontextualising Pedagogy
Panel: Cyber in the classroom - Understanding how ‘privacy and security’ fits into the new Digital Curriculum and how to teach students about privacy and security
Focusing on changes to ‘privacy and security’ in the Digital Technologies Curriculum, our panel of experts will discuss how this area fits into the curriculum and their methods and tools for of teaching students about these essential skills.
Case Study: Alphington Grammar School System and data migration project
Creating learning neighbourhoods to support the needs of individual students
Can film and television contribute to positive student engagement?
- Teaching and learning has gone through a dramatic shift over the past 18 months as students disperse around the world
- Creating an environment of active student engagement can be enhanced with the use of film and television but the question remains; can it create or solve equity issues for domestic vs international students?
- Understanding how film and television shapes social views (gender bias, ethics, culture) and expose cultural differences can help students build critical thinking skills
- Explore the future of media in teaching and learning and the impact it can have on student outcomes
Zero touch deployment: as easy as ABC
Caught in the act: The value of video capture in assessing complex skills
Making with micro:bit: programming the real world (primary/secondary)
Are you looking for a cheap, accessible and flexible hardware solution to support the delivery of your Digital Technologies program? In this talk, we’ll demonstrate the power of the BBC micro:bit, show you how this one resource can be used to build a multi-year digital technology program in your school, and showcase some examples of simple projects suitable for all year levels.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (3-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering the using the Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking resources to support the implementation of the curriculum.
Using Education Insights and Tracking Student Activity in Teams
Join Allan Sheffield from Brisbane Catholic Education to learn how Brisbane Catholic Education adopted Microsoft's Education Insights Premium solution to gain access to student activity data in Teams - right across the organisation's 146 schools. BCE and school leaders are now able to access big picture views on student workload and digital engagement and measure the impact of change management on a school's digital transformation goals.
Panel: Strategies to support whole-school wellbeing
Prerequisites for an effective Digital Technologies programme (primary/secondary)
Delegates are invited to join the Digital Technologies Curriculum authors to hear a range of strategies for rolling out the Digital Technologies subject effectively in your school. Take this opportunity to find out about some of the resources that have been developed specifically to help your staff and support your students as they meet the challenges of the future.
Who Should Attend?
- School leaders seeking to better understand how they can support the effective delivery of Digital Technologies in their school.
- Primary and Secondary teachers (F-10) looking to make a case to their school leadership teams to increase the profile of Digital Technologies in their school.
Workshop - Making with micro:bit: programming the real world (primary/secondary)
Educator to Entrepreneur: Seizing an Opportunity
Educators and practitioners have a unique perspective on the world of learning. They have lived, and understand the challenges, they see the opportunities and the potential for a better experience. In this entrepreneur panel highly accomplished educators share their experiences transitioning from leading the classroom to leading an EdTech business.
Is upgrading to A5 worth it?
Is upgrading to A5 worth it?We believe that it is no longer acceptable to deliver anything less than comprehensive security against digital threats. A5 licensing delivers capabilities that can replace many of the costly solutions in your environment. Through consolidation, you can reduce costs and simplify management, making you more secure. With our integrated approach to security, organizations can replace up to 40 products. Join Microsoft Security Specialist Kanika Chauhan for this session to help you decide on whether it's worth upgrading to A5 for your M365 licensing.
Chrome OS Flex: A new lease on life for aging devices
Chrome Flex transforms older PCs and Macbooks into powerful Chrome OS devices that are fast, secure and reliable. Reduce digital waste, extend the life of older computers and increase student access at no cost. This presentation will be illustrated by the wonderful work of Litehaus International.
A Microsoft Architecture for Education on a Single Page
Schools, school systems and universities can be large and complex organisations, and the role that Microsoft technology can play in supporting schools can become quite complicated. If you'd like to have a clear picture of how the Microsoft cloud can empower schools to transform using technology, you should attend this session. We'll take a step back to share a high-level overview of Microsoft's architecture for Education, providing a single page view that brings together identity, security, compliance, collaboration, data platforms and advanced analytics. By understanding the relationship between these technology building blocks, you will understand the possibilities of the Microsoft cloud and how you can support the key stakeholders in your school, university or education institution. Explore what's possible so you can decide what comes next!
PRIMM: a pedagogy for programming (primary/secondary)
The curriculum requires the teaching of programming and other DT topics to students of all ages, but few teachers have been taught pedagogical approaches to teach the subject effectively. In this talk, we will present the PRIMM methodology, and explain why it is an effective approach to develop the skills and knowledge in the curriculum to your students.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (3-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering using Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking advice on effective pedagogical approaches for teaching programming at their school.
Pitch Competition - Heat 4 - The Innovation Precinct Pitch Competition heat four! Hear from innovative EdTech companies at the cutting edge of innovation.
EdTech Founders are up against the clock with just 3 minutes to articulate their innovation, the impact on learners, and their ultimate business case. Each heat will feature 3 Startups and Q&A. Heat winners will progress to the Pitch Competition Finals.
Hybrid learning and developing learner agency with Google Workspace for Education
Learn how Albany Senior High School has levelled up their use of Google for Education tools to effectively deliver hybrid learning and respond to the changing needs of their learners throughout the pandemic whilst developing learner agency by supporting self-directed learning.
All your digital learning resources in one secure place
Computational thinking - Enabling capable K-12 problem solvers
Computational thinking has become increasingly important in all industries as a means of deconstructing problems and co-creating potential solutions. Join us as we unpack what it looks like to tackle this in our K-12 co-educational context, whilst focusing on transferable skill development as we seek to empower today’s critical thinkers to be the collaborative problem solvers of tomorrow.
Adobe Breakout Session - Get creative in any curriculum area with Adobe
Last December, Adobe gifted all K-12 schools globally a package of amazing applications and resources called Adobe Express for Education. Formerly known as Adobe Spark, but with lots more features, this new & free browser based resource is the ideal platform for creating graphics, infographics, video stories, webpages and more. Designed to be low-lift but have high impact, these tools can be used in any curriculum area. Even school principals can use them! This workshop, led by Dr Tim Kitchen from Adobe as well as a dedicated group of Adobe Education Leaders from a range of Victorian schools, will go through how to access the tools, get started and manage projects.Practical examples will also be shared on how these tools are making such a positive difference to K-12 classrooms all over the globe.
Commscope Breakout Session - The 5 Phases of transition to digital learning
Disruption often leads to innovation. When COVID-19 forced campuses to shut down across the globe, it also created opportunities for educational institutions to understand what both students and teachers need. How is connectivity enhancing education delivery? and what are the five phases of transitioning to digital learning.
- What are the IT challenges in making a successful transition whilst providing a safe and reliable classroom experience?
- Why a fast and reliable network is no longer optional?
- Why a reliable network infrastructure is vital for supporting a wide variety of digital curriculum projects?
- How future-ready technologies help overcome digital roadblocks
- How do you protect student’s safety as well as protecting their privacy?
If anything, the pandemic has proved that a fully remote learning model cannot last forever. The virus may vanish one day, but education’s pre-pandemic problems will not. To resolve budget shortfalls and declining student enrolment and retention, all education areas from K-12 to campus will need to reinvent the student and teacher experiences, especially once all return to onsite learning. In many ways, connectivity and access to the internet have transformed education at all levels. The ability for students to access learning materials on-line as well as for instructors to share lessons and collaborate has revolutionised teaching and learning. Where education used to be concentrated in buildings, it can now be accessed by millions of people (almost) anywhere.
Converged IoT platforms provide technology that can scale your operations, and this can be more cost-effective. Who doesn’t want to monitor and optimize their electricity, lighting, water usage? IoT systems are perfect for accomplishing this. Educational institutions aren’t hospitality groups. They can’t afford to build shiny new buildings all the time. However, they can leverage smart technology to foster social interaction, attract students and keep campuses healthy and safe.
Lego Breakout Session - Building confidence with LEGO Education Spike Prime - Modelled example of classroom practice
During this workshop teachers will explore an introduction to LEGO® Education SPIKE Prime. We will take a brief look at hands-on learning and explore activities using the kits.
Teachers will be guided through a 5E lesson featured on the LEGO® Education website and will unpack ideas around classroom management and curriculum alignment. We will also explore the new professional development platform to enable educators to access professional learning anywhere at any time.
NOTE - Teachers will be supplied with all LEGO® Education products needed for the day.
Microsoft Breakout Session - Leading Learning Acceleration: What Matters Most?
In this engaging, practical, evidence-based session Mark Sparvell, award-winning Education Director at Microsoft and former Australian Principal will open a conversation on accelerating learning. Mark will highlight free, easy-to-use EdTech tools that will help you to create more inclusive learning environments, accelerate foundational skills and support learner well-being.
Nice Breakout Session - How omnichannel contact centre solutions can help tertiary institutions deliver comprehensive student support
After two years of fluctuating learning conditions, students have returned to university campuses in droves, many of whom had never attended the campus in person. For LaTrobe University, this created a new and challenging environment with two separate yet similar new student populations: those entirely new to university; and those returning students who were entirely new to the university campus and face-to-face learning.
Join Anthony Brown, Director of Solution Consulting, NICE, Kirsty Hunter, Customer Experience Practice Leader, Optus, and Joanna Shaw, Deputy Director, LaTrobe University, to learn how LaTrobe University used contact centre solutions to navigate this challenge. They will discuss how tertiary institutions can leverage smart contact centre solutions to deliver frictionless experiences for students regardless of location.
In this session, we’ll discuss:
- how omnichannel solutions can help deliver more comprehensive support to higher education students with lower resilience
- how personalising digital experiences can lead to more streamlined student experiences
- why tertiary institutions need to deliver omnichannel solutions in their contact centres for more streamlined, frictionless student experiences across campuses.
Open LMS Breakout Session - The Secret to Learner Engagement in eLearning is Revealed
How can we replicate high levels of learner engagement achieved in a face-to-face classroom to an eLearning virtual environment? Join me in an interactive presentation where I will take you through digital learning strategies and techniques that encourage engagement and everlasting impact in student curriculum. You will get to learn quick tips in applying activities that incorporate gamification, immersive technology, social and collaborative learning, reward systems, and project management. My goal is to show you different approaches in eLearning content within your Learning Management System (LMS) to create an enjoyable experience for your students.
Zoom Breakout Session - A New Chapter: Charting the New Path for Education in 2022 and Beyond
2022 marked the start of a new chapter in education as we open doors and welcome students and teachers back into schools. With everything we've learned in the past two years, now is the time to apply these learnings and take educational institutions to another level of excellence. Join this session to learn:
- How to continue to drive operational efficiency with technologies you've already invested in;
- How to build a balanced hybrid learning model to provide equal access to education for students in need;
- How to effectively engage your school and local communities to build a collaborative ecosystem
Scaffolding Scratch: keeping kids engaged (primary)
One of the strengths of Scratch is that it provides students with a creative outlet to demonstrate their programming knowledge and skills. This also creates a significant challenge – how do you ensure that the projects students build have the complexity necessary to develop and stretch their capability in Digital Technologies? In this talk, we’ll discuss how we use a concept-driven approach to scaffold learning, and design tasks with sufficient complexity to challenge and extend students.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Lower Secondary teachers (3-7) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering using Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking advice on effective pedagogical approaches for teaching programming at their school.
Workshop - PRIMM: a pedagogy for programming (primary/secondary)
Deliver Finance and Operations Agility
Learn how Microsoft Intelligent Financial solutions can unify your schools in one platform, provide real-time visibility across all financial processes/projects with embedded analytics, and AI insights.
Taking Learning Beyond The School Gate
TIDES aims to utilise all these elements in the challenge-based structures we create. Long-term project work that provides opportunities for reflection, review, revision, refinement, repurposing, reinvention and representation of student work.
Key Takeaways:
- Use challenge-based strategies to amplify student agency;
- Engage with real-world stakeholders to position learners as active global citizens;
- Employ human-centred design processes as drivers for learning and engagement
Practical data science (secondary)
Data is important in every industry, and increasingly so as our computing systems increase in power and speed. Data is now generated and collected faster than it can be analysed, and being able to make sense of the data in our world is a key part of being able to succeed in our modern world. This talk will show you how to make data exciting and engaging for your students.
Who Should Attend?
- Secondary teachers (7-12) and pre-service teachers wanting to incorporate data science into their learning programs – not just in Digital Technologies, but in other learning areas as well.
Workshop - Scaffolding Scratch: keeping kids engaged (primary)
Fuel Your Passion for Learning with Apple Teacher Learning Centre
Build new skills. Inspire your Students, Unlock the power of iPad and Mac in your classroom with Apple Teacher, a free professional learning program designed to support and celebrate educators using Apple products for teaching and learning. Join us to explore the Apple Teacher Learning Centre, where you can earn badges and track your learning journey.
Keynote: Using EdTech with Impact in K12 Learning
K12 Schools utilise technology to help with onboarding, training, communication, and support, but are we unlocking its true potential for learners? This session will explore the possibilities and the impacts that EdTech can have on K12 learners.
Safe and secure learning with Google for Education
Google Workspace and Chromebooks provide a safe, secure and easily managable platform for schools. This session will provide a guide to the powerful tools and policies available to make learning secure for all your students, staff and administrators.
Smart waste management with technology
Dr Kulari and Leanne will present an overview of KIOSC’s TrashBot program, highlighting the importance of inspiring, empowering and equipping students with skills to become future Change Makers with the capability to contribute to future solutions for Global Sustainability.
The opportunity to design and create an innovative, automated, sustainable waste management solution provided students with access to technology and skill development that they would not have ordinarily had as part of their regular curriculum.
The design process enabled students to develop technical skills required in emerging employment markets in STEM, such as 3D printing, programming, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. They also learnt about potential opportunities and tertiary studies that they may aspire to in the future.
Throughout the program, KIOSC staff guided and supported local and regional schools to implement the TrashBot program, using blended, collaborative and personalised learning pedagogies in synchronous sessions, and provided schools with resources via Canvas.
This initiative aligns closely with Swinburne’s Horizon 2025 Strategic Plan by addressing the institutional goal of becoming a leader in blended learning and the vision to bring people and technology together to build a better world.
The Next Generation of ClassroomCare ® for Healthy Learning
Commscope Breakout Session - School Networking 101
School Networking from cables types to wireless, copper to fibre optics, Telecommunications roomsto Classrooms, what is the latest Standards and cabling required to lead your school into the future.
We will coverthe evolution of structured cabling, all services can now run on one cabling platform, 1Gb-400Gb where is the industry taking us.
Addressing Endpoint Challenges for Hybrid Learning
Are you responsible for managing the managed device fleet or BYOD devices in your school? Come along to this session with Microsoft Endpoint Specialist Siddarth Dabrai where you will learn why and how to leverage cloud based technologies within the Microsoft stack to address endpoint management challenges in a hybrid learning environment.
Panel: Teacher professional learning and development
Understanding the Digital Technologies curriculum (primary/secondary)
The Digital Technologies subject is more than just programming and networks – it is constructed on the foundation of a series of core concepts that not only define the progression of knowledge and skills students develop from Foundation to Year 10, but by their very nature help students become digitally capable citizens. In this talk, we’ll deep-dive into the principles behind the design of the subject, and the decisions made to ensure it remains relevant as technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace.
For more information about the AC:DT please visit our Understand the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies site.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (F-12) and pre-service teachers interested in developing a greater understanding of the fundamental principles and core concepts of the Digital Technologies subject.
- Curriculum coordinators and school leaders seeking a greater understanding of the place of Digital Technologies in the broader school curriculum.
Workshop - Practical data science (secondary)
Using Video Games to Level Up Collaboration for Students
Gaming is a powerful tool for social learning, but educators and allied health professionals want to know how they can create the optimal conditions for learning. This presentation introduces a program that combines video modelling and video review with the supported play of cooperative video games to help our students develop essential collaborative skills. Sharing insights from their research and professional practice, Dr Matthew Harrison and Jess Rowlings detail practical structures and strategies to run engaging and effective sessions for all students. Importantly, this program is neurodiverse-positive and celebrates the differences of autism, ADHD and other neurological conditions.
Data Driven Learning Intelligence with Google Workspace Plus
This session will demonstrate some powerful and practical ways in which data from Google Workspace Plus and Chromebooks can be analysed through Google Cloud and triangulated with additional sources to gain powerful insights into learner growth.
Why is WiFi Important in Education – Why Cambium Networks
What's New in Endpoint Management
Catch up on all that's new in the world of Microsoft and endpoint management. From Intune to manage your Windows and/or Apple fleet, to the latest and greatest security measures, and maybe a little bit of what's coming soon, this session will arm you with all you need to know about endpoint management.
STEM: integration strategies for success (primary/secondary)
Many schools choose to deliver Digital Technologies through a combined STEM program, which brings with it real opportunities for rich contextualisation of learning across subjects. It also brings with it significant challenges – how do you ensure every learning area is treated as a first-class citizen in your learning program? We’ll discuss this issue, and present strategies you can use to ensure your STEM program stays on track to deliver on its promise to students.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (3-10) and pre-service teachers looking to understand how to teach digital technologies in an integrated STEM programme.
Leading a digital school
Sharon and Carolyn will share how Mount Waverley Heights Primary School (MWHPS) prepared teachers and students to thrive in a digital age. Their journey explores what meaningful digital literacy design can look like from a primary school perspective.
MWHPS has been at the forefront of cutting-edge practices. As the first Datacom Beacon School and a Google Reference school, Level 1 Google Educator Certification is the minimum level held by teaching staff with many staff members achieving higher levels of training (including Educator Level 2, Certified Innovator, Certified Trainer or Coach).
Sharon and Carolyn continuously envision the school’s work as progressive and are committed to equipping students to live and work successfully in the 21st Century, through a future focused learning approach.
Investing in Education
Many understand and view education as the most powerful investment in one’s future, it has the ability to lead learners on a path towards health, empowerment, and employment. In this session, industry experts discuss the impact of education and how that ultimately impacts the investment.
Unlocking Innovation with a Modern Data Platform
Students, teachers and school leaders are interacting with multiple systems and applications each day which contain critical data about all aspects of a school’s environment and student learning. Significant opportunities present themselves when teachers and school leaders have access to this data in a connected way. Come to this session to learn about how your educational organisation can overcome common challenges of siloed data through a modern data platform, which will enable you to deliver insight into student, cohort and institutional performance.
Panel: Lessons in lesson planning
AWS & Intel Breakout Session - AI and Machine Learning for Education
Over the last 2 years, education has undertaken a transformative adoption of digital technology as the world responded to the global pandemic. As we rapidly move through the 4th industrial revolution, we find ourselves concurrently heading into the 5th industrial revolution. With the evolution of artificial intelligence, big data, machine learning, Internet of Things and digital platforms being adopted at scale, this provides us with a range of opportunities to explore, including how digital cloud technology can enable a reduction of the administrative burden for school teachers and administrators to support learning outcomes and create a positive impact for student wellbeing and safety. This session will look at the 'art of the possible' and look at the work undertaken by AWS with some of our customers and how we have helped lift student experiences, optimise administrative efficiencies and improve impact with accessible and personalised learning.
Axis Communications Breakout Session - More than public address – the benefits of network audio in education
- a school administrator, you rely daily on public address systems to communicate efficiently with students, staff, and visitors. From signaling class changes and making general announcements, to more serious risk-based communication such as an impending threat or weather emergency.
- The increasingly valuable role of network audio in education. Why network audio?
- How network audio provides ultimate flexibility in public address
- How network audio contributes to a safer learning environment as part of the security system
At Axis, we contribute to a safer learning environment by providing you and your staff with high quality network audio solutions that easily integrate with your video surveillance system. Solutions that not only support your daily broadcast audio needs, but can also be used for audible deterrence before, during or after school.
In this keynote you'll learn
JAMF Breakout Session - Transforming the Classroom with Apple and Jamf
Apple empowers educators and students by design. Whether using Macs, iPads, or Apple TV, Apple devices encourage creativity and can simplify teaching with apps to make the classroom more flexible, collaborative and personalized for each student.
To unleash the full potential of the technology and create the best learning environment, you need to understand the tools and resources available, and develop an education-focused, comprehensive plan, from equipment purchase to deployment, management and use in the classroom and beyond. In our session Transforming Your Classroom with Apple and Jamf, we’ll explain how to make the best use of Apple devices in your classroom, and the tools and resources you need for success.
You'll learn:
-Apple technologies for the classroom, from devices to setup and workflows
-The importance of helping students learn 21st-century skills
-Tips, tricks and cost-saving measures to transform your learning environment
-How to facilitate student-led education
Learning Vault Breakout Session - Life-long learning through verifiable credentials
In this session, 'Life-long learning through verifiable credentials', we explore the global megatrends in education - Micro-credentials and Digital Badging. The session looks at how the rise in Blockchain-enabled applications are now able to enhance learning and career opportunities through verifiable credentials.
Toby will introduce the concept of 'the complete learner', and how education institutes can now empower students to receive recognition of skills and achievements, not only for formal education but also meaningful non-accredited and extra-curricular activities, all of which are of great benefit to students, institutes and future employers alike.
Toby will share the discoveries gained in this field over the last few years and how this new wave of thinking is creating truly meaningful outcomes.
Microsoft Breakout Session - IT Avengers Assemble - Build and Empower Your IT Universe
Come along to this seminar to learn what's new from Microsoft Education through the lens of a technical leader or specialist! You can be the Tony Stark of your IT team after attending this session where Dan Bowen and Megan Townes will share the latest megatrends in education and how you can support your team to make the most of them. They will also explore the hot topics of cyberthreats against the education sector, managing an ever-growing device fleet, supporting staff well-being, and the big data opportunities in schools, universities and other education institutions. You will walk away from this session with resources and ideas to build the capacity of your IT team to grow, learn and transform.
Okta Breakout Session - Fireside Chat - Securing Identity at Scale with Monash University
Back in 2019, Monash University was faced with what seemed like an impossible task of rolling out Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) to over 100,000 users at Australia’s largest university across students, faculty and alumni—all in just 100 days. Join us for a fireside chat with Cameron Duck, Senior Engineering Lead at Monash University, to get a real world insight into the journey from then to now.
Included in this session, Okta’s, Jim Katsos, Senior Solution Engineering Manager, will also give an overview of how an Identity-first strategy can become the pathway to building Digital Trust in the Higher Education space.
PeopleBench Breakout Session - How EdTech is addressing the school workforce crisis
Join us at the PeopleBench seminar as we unpack how schools can address the immediate challenge of poor teacher wellbeing and the need for effective workforce strategy and positive workforce culture to address the entrenched issues that prevent schools from becoming great places to work. PeopleBench will be joined on stage by education leaders to discuss proven strategies that are transforming schools, and systems of schools, across Australia. Hear how innovative schools and systems are taking measurable, evidence-informed steps into the future of work. See how EdTech can help you make your school a great place to work as well as a great place to learn.
VEX Breakout Session - The Robotics Journey. Creative and innovative approaches to scaling STEM? robotics in F-12 curriculum, cocurricular competition and community
Hear from a panel of educators speak about their experience creating and implementing new robotics curriculum, commencing, and scaling cocurricular robotics, and engaging their network of schools or broader community to become involved in this exciting and rapidly growing area. Understand the ‘pain points’, resourcing needed and managing expectations for growth within your school. You will also learn about the free training, support, and resources available, and how you can join a vibrant professional learning community of enthusiastic STEM robotics educators! Bring the excitement of robotics to students in your school!
Assessing Digital Technologies effectively (primary/secondary)
Assessing a student’s understanding and skills in Digital Technologies should be done using a range of tools and strategies, but what works best? And how do you design a task that is achievable for all, but provides opportunities for your high achievers to extend themselves? In this talk we’ll address both of these questions, and present some examples of assessment instruments that meet these goals.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (3-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and design effective assessment instruments.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking resources to support the implementation of the curriculum.
Reaching All Learners
More students are coming to school with a varying array of abilities, and educators are exploring new ways to not only support these learners, but to also personalise every student's learning experience.Join us to learn about tools and resources from Apple that allow all students to create, communicate, personalise and explore in new and powerful ways.
Work smarter, not harder with Google Drive & Google Docs
Google Drive and Docs are jam-packed with productivity boosting features that most people never discover! Learn how to search smarter, keep key files within easy reach, do more with hyperlinks, use time-saving building blocks and a heap more!
Confident, Creative and Capable | Inspiring the Entrepreneurial Generation in School
Update Your Meeting and Learning Spaces with Teams Rooms
Many schools and universities are upgrading their meeting spaces and learning spaces to accommodate hybrid meetings and lessons! See how Microsoft Teams Rooms can change the way you work and learn in your school.
Gaming and Education
In this fast-paced session you will play a game that can be adapted to any curriculum; Explore how games can be a tool for assessment; Learn how games can be support SEL; And consider how designing games supports student agency and voice.
Pitch Competition - Heat 5 - The Innovation Precinct Pitch Competition heat five! Hear from innovative EdTech companies at the cutting edge of innovation.
EdTech Founders are up against the clock with just 3 minutes to articulate their innovation, the impact on learners, and their ultimate business case. Each heat will feature 3 Startups and Q&A. Heat winners will progress to the Pitch Competition Finals.
Cyber security in the Australian Curriculum (primary/secondary)
Helping students understand the risks of personal information security and data sharing is vitally important in the digital age.In this workshop, we will look at changes to the Digital Technologies subject and Digital Literacy capability (formerly, the ICT Capability) in the Australian Curriculum.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (5-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering the using the Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking resources to support the implementation of the curriculum.
Workshop - Assessing Digital Technologies effectively (primary/secondary)
Reimagine the Employee Experience
Microsoft Viva is designed for staff to connect, learn, and bring their best every day. With Viva, teaching and non-teaching staff alike can hone their skills and discover new ones. Come along to this session to see how Viva can support productivity and wellbeing, promote a vibrant and inclusive workplace culture by keeping employees informed and engaged with the latest news, content and resources wherever they are, and connect employees to the right knowledge, resources and learning experiences that they need from day one, whether they are onboarding or taking on a new role or project.
AWS & Intel Breakout Session -Intel in partnership with AWS & NSW Department of Education Panel: Empowering student learning outcomes through hybrid and remote learning models across NSW
Sally Webster, Head of K-12 Schools Industry, ANZO from AWS will lead a panel discussion with the highly regarded team from NSW DoE led by Michelle Michael, Director, Educational Support, Rural Initiatives and COVID 19 NSW Taskforce, Learning from Home Regional & Rural Distance Education ,and Digital Learning {please insert latest Director title] along with Alex Laurence [Insert title] and Darren Avery [Insert title] to learn more about how the team have overcome some of the hurdles and have supported students to reach their full learning potential.
Powering Up Google Slides for students and teachers
Google Slides is a wonderful presentation tool, but how can wemake it even more interactive, accessible, and assessable?Additional free tools create more robust Google Slide decks which are differentiated and accessible, and inspire whole newuses in our ever-evolving classrooms.
Welcome to Mini Melbourne
Introducing 600,000m2 of Melbourne’s CBD rendered in Minecraft! Discover this amazing collaboration between the Victorian Department of Education and Training and the Metro Tunnel Project and how you can use it to introduce your students to the challenges of a major city shaping infrastructure project.
Increasing Student Engagement in Class with ContentKeeper
Choosing a programming language in high school (secondary)
With so many programming languages in use today it can be hard to know which ones are best suited for the classroom. In this talk we will discuss some of the considerations you need to make to select an appropriate programming language for teaching students, and give you some of our recommendations.
Who Should Attend?
- Secondary teachers (7-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering the using Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders looking for advice to design, refine and/or implement a Digital Technologies program at their school.
Workshop - Cyber security in the Australian Curriculum (primary/secondary)
Investment-Ready EdTech
Ready to approach an investor? This session will feature some of Australia’s leading EdTech Investors to review recent trends in EdTech investment, the outlook for the coming year and understand how they personally evaluate an EdTech investment opportunity.
Where students go wrong: debugging programming pitfalls (secondary)
We’ve seen hundreds of thousands of attempts from students solving all kinds of programming problems over many years running the NCSS Challenge and our DT Challenges. Analysis of those submissions has allowed us to understand the most common mistakes students make when attempting to write their own programs, and in this talk we’ll share our insights with you!
Who Should Attend?
- Secondary teachers (7-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and develop their knowledge of debugging and remediation strategies for common programming pitfalls.
Build Apps with Swift Playgrounds 4
Join us to learn about the new features of Swift Playgrounds 4 - the best andeasiest way to learn to code and develop apps. This session exploresimplementing coding programs with the Everyone Can Code curriculum in theupper primary and secondary using iPad. It will deep dive into the new features ofSwift Playgrounds 4 and walk through the steps educators and students will takewhen building their own apps to support problem-solving and deeper learning inthe curriculum on iPad.
Adaptive Learning with Google Forms
Adaptive Learning helps students to engage and develop their understanding through personalised feedback and support. Discover how Google Forms can be used to create adaptive assessments and learning experiences.
Using the right Technology in the right way to enhance Teaching and Learning outcomes.
Panel: Use of social media for further teacher professional development & learning
Pitch Competition Final
The top companies from the Pitch Competition will pitch to a live panel of judges. These investor experts will then select a winner.
Teaching object-oriented programming (secondary)
The Australian Curriculum sets out an expectation that students learn the fundamental principles of object-oriented programming (OOP) in Years 9 and 10. In this talk, we’ll lay out the OOP principles students should be learning, and provide strategies and examples of how to teach these principles in the classroom.
Who should attend?
- Secondary Teachers (9-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and senior secondary programming subjects.
Workshop - Where students go wrong: debugging programming pitfalls (secondary)
Enable Flexible Learning and Work with Surface for Education
Discover Microsoft’s Surface portfolio of devices designed for flexible learning and work, built for Teams, while improving security, simplifying device deployment & management, increasing staff and student productivity, and aligning to your sustainability goals.
Home Schooling Forum
In conjunction with the Home Education Association (HEA) -
Welcoming Address by HEA President Karen Chegwidden
The last couple of years have brought education into sharp focus, and especially home education as parents have become necessarily more involved in their children’s education. Home education now is the fastest growing sector in education. Join the Home Education Forum to find the answers to all your home education questions.
Home Schooling: Will the Real Home Education Please Stand Up?
Dr Terry Harding - 45 min presentation, 15 min Q&A
Home schooling, AKA home education has experienced vibrant growth across Australia and the Western World over the last few years. Given the many variants of school-based, mandated learning-at-home and remote and distance learning, understanding what is true home education can be confusing.
This session defines and clarifies true home education and the many home-based learning variants. It looks at why parents have chosen home education pre and post-COVID conditions. The author's recent research provides school leaders with vital information about what matters to parents who are considering exiting from the school system and entering home education. Similarly, it clarifies what is most important to home educators.
You must be very patient and other myths about home education.
Karen Chegwidden
Although becoming a more mainstream choice, home education continues to be perceived through a lens of assumptions not based in reality. When telling people that you home educate, common responses include -"You must be very patient", "I could never do that", "but what about socialisation?" and "can they go to university?"Karen Chegwidden, President of the Home Education Association, will share the lived experience of home education and unpack some of the myths surrounding home education.
Grad video
Young people share their experiences of transitioning from home education to tertiary education.
Panel Discussion - Home Education
Have you been considering home educating but not sure where to start? Perhaps you have educational FOMO? Our Expert panel has over three decades of combined home education experience answer your questions and put your minds at ease. Join us as we discuss:
● Where to start when you begin home education
● how home educators can access the same sorts of resources as schools
● Educational opportunities that are almost impossible to replicate in a classroom environment
● The advantages of young people being able to explore their own interests
● Things we wish teachers knew about home education
This is an interactive panel, so bring all your home ed questions and join in the conversation.
Panellists
● Karen Chegwidden
● Tere Latimer
● Janelle Barnes
Panel Discussion - Teaching STEM at home
This panel brings together experts in the field of STEM education to discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching STEM at home. Join our panel for inspiration and resources on how you can successfully teach these specialist subjects without access to a school lab or a science degree yourself. Bring your questions to this interactive session and leave inspired and equipped for your home education journey.
Panellists
● Education Perfect - Kelly Hollis kelly.hollis@educationperfect.com
● Grok (awaiting confirmation)
● Brainary - Sam Kinsley sam@thebrainary.com
● Shape Robotics - Robert Widger rob@shaperobotics.com
Closing Address by HEA President Karen Chegwidden
Home Education is legal, achievable and it works. You can successfully home educate your children. The HEA is there to assist and support you every step of the way. Find out how to connect with the HEA and get support to take the next step.
Hybrid Learning Design Principles with Google for Education
Explore the underlying design principles for hybrid learning anddiscover what makes Google Workspace and Chromebookssuch a compelling platform for enabling authentic, agentic,hybrid learning.
Impact of Intelligent Learning Platform on Australian Education
Web development and its place in the curriculum (secondary)
Web development has been used to teach Digital Technologies for years, but how well does it meet the requirements of the Australian Curriculum? Modern web development tools and techniques provide plenty of opportunities to meet the goals of the curriculum, and in this talk we’ll explain the different ways modern web technologies can be used in the classroom.
Who Should Attend?
- Secondary teachers (7-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering the using the Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking resources to support the implementation of the curriculum.
Workshop - Teaching object-oriented programming (secondary)
How to transform education with the Connected School Solution
Join this session to see how the Connected School Solution is harnessing the power of data analytics to give educators meaningful insight into the factors that affect their students' learning outcomes. PwC Australia and Microsoft have jointly built an end-to-end school management solution built on Microsoft’s cloud platform, including Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure, M365 and the Power Platform.
Entrepreneurship Interview - Building an EdTech Unicorn
Hear from the founder of leadsquared as they detail their journey building a unicorn! Gain insight from a leader in the sector on how to build a impactful business and scale en masse. This session is not to be missed for any aspiring entrepreneurs.
What's the 'truth' with Wikipedia? Why students SHOULD use Wikipedia and what are some insights and tips teachers can show students to make it a reliable tool
Metaverse and its implications in education and for wellbeing
How gamification supports computational thinking in schools
Fireside chat: Legal Issues for ICT managers (Parental rights to information)
Back to school: Considering Covid-19 in educational architecture and design
Put the learner at the heart of the learning experience
Music Teachers Forum
Join this forum and enjoy presentations -
Impactful music teaching
Prof Gary McPherson, Ormond Chair of Music, University of Melbourne
Helping others understand the value of music learning
Dr Anita Collins, Neuromusical Educator, Bigger Better Brains
Harmony In Strings - curiosity, connection and meaning-making within a primary school compulsory instrumental music program
Zoe Barry, Co-Director, Harmony In Strings, Sacred Heart Primary, Fitzroy
5 ways you can use tech to boost your music program visibility
Katie Wardrobe,Director, Midnight Music
Fireside chat - Technology-based approach to Music Education
With Alahana Somerville, Music Teacher, Mentone Girls' Grammar Schooland Katie Wardrobe,Director, Midnight Music
Digital Literacy vs. Digital Technologies: understanding the differences (primary/secondary)
Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum has brought with it updates to both the Digital Technologies subject and the Digital Literacy capability (previously ICT). In this talk, we’ll go through the things that make each of these parts of the curriculum unique, and how this can inform the design of learning programs across all Learning Areas.
Who Should Attend?
- All Primary and Secondary teachers (F-10) – find out how student learning in Digital Technologies can enable rich opportunities in other learning areas
- School Leaders, Curriculum Coordinators and ICT Integrators seeking to understand the role digital literacy plays in the delivery of effective digital integration across Learning Areas.
Workshop - Web development and its place in the curriculum (secondary)
30 Creative Activities for Kids
In this workshop we will explore fun, constructive and creative activities using the built-in features of iPad. Designed for children in the lower grades, these activitiescan easily be tailored for any year level. From personifying an object to creating a comic strip, discover how student voice and ideas come to life on iPad.
Get Compliant and Protect Your Data with Microsoft Purview
In this session you will discover how the Microsoft Compliance Suite known as Purview, helps institutions to protect the privacy of students & faculty, safeguard data, and meet compliance with relevant regulations.
Hybrid Learning Resources with Google for Education
Discover a range of Google for Education resources thatteachers can access for creating effective and successfulHybrid Learning experiences that meet the needs of allstudents.
Indigenous led learning programs - Science Gallery Melbourne’s approach to developing Indigenous STEM programs
The Indigenous STEM schools program is a unique opportunity for students from secondary schools in Melbourne’s West to visit Science Gallery Melbourne at the University of Melbourne and experience a full-day excursion investigating Indigenous STEM knowledge and perspectives, led and developed by Indigenous Facilitators.
In this workshop teachers will get hands on with materials and get insights into how this peer-to-peer learning program was developed with Elders, Indigenous Curators and Indigenous Facilitators to facilitate learning about Aboriginal knowledge, science, perspectives and technological innovations.
KaiBot in Kainundrum, screen-free to Hybrid coding
Panel: Gamification
EduGrowth Pitch - Announcement
Join us as we announce the winner of the Innovation Precinct 2022 pitch competition
Panel: Student engagement using technology
Panel: Security is more than a firewall: how to raise awareness in your staff and students
Smart Campus - the 6 elements
MyBCom: a gamified student-led platform for holistic assessment
- Introduce ‘myBCom’ as a framework and gamified online platform for the holistic development and assessment of professional skills from curricular and co-curricular opportunities in a Bachelor of Commerce.
- Solve the widespread problem of poor ‘soft’ skills in business graduates.
- Demonstrate how a visual dashboard and intuitive ‘point’ system allows students to track their progress in achieving program learning outcomes; choose how to address lesser strengths; and showcase achievements in digital portfolios.
Case Study: Monash University’s Assessment Platforms
Technology Enhanced Learning
The learning environment has changed. The impacts of the COVID pandemic on how quality education could be delivered propelled training organisations to change. The use of technology to attract, engage and retain learners escalated from ‘important for business’ to ‘critical for survival’.
At TAFE SA we have changed, not only because of the pandemic, but because we recognise that students must be ready and skilled for a world of work where impacts of technology are rapidly changing the pace of work. Technical skills need to sit alongside digital skills. Learners need to be fluent and competent in both the real and the digitally enabled worlds.
Technology enhanced learning is the new reality. TAFE SA’s vision is to ensure graduates undertake technology enhanced learning experiences to establish foundations of success for both working and learning.
To make this vision a success TAFE SA has boldly developed and implemented student-centric digital technologies to digitally enhance learning. Challenging this is the generational diversity represented in student cohorts and the need to provide a wide spectrum of technology enhanced learning options from virtual/ augmented reality to online presentations. The TAFE SA Digital Toolkit enables educators to design, develop and deliver technology enhanced learning aligned to the needs of their student cohorts.
These approaches are ensuring TAFE SA is providing real world outcomes for its graduates in a rapidly changing digital world.
Parsons problems - reading and understanding code (primary/secondary)
By challenging students to fix code, rather than write it, Parsons problems can be a very effective tool to teach how to read and interpret code.In this talk we will outline how to implement Parsons problems in the classroom when teaching Digital Technologies.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (3-12) and pre-service teachers looking to teach digital technologies and considering the using Grok Academy’s resources.
- Teachers and technology leaders seeking resources to support the implementation of the curriculum.
Workshop - Digital Literacy vs. Digital Technologies: understanding the differences (primary/secondary)
Data & Analytics in Education
In this session we'll discuss how Data Analytics is helping schools embrace their new normal with deeper insights into the student across areas like learning and well-being.
Using tech to encourage creativity in secondary education
Creativity is a challenging area of the curriculum to cover; how do you teach students to think creatively when it is such a hard skill to learn?
While Janene may not have all the answers, as a Digital Tech teacher she has run a few design thinking projects and other creative challenges, and wants to inspire teachers to try out some of their own ideas.
Janene will delve into how she uses various tools including Adobe Express to inspire creativity in the classroom.
Attendees will walk away with an:
- understanding of how to help students learn how to be more creative using various programs, teaching practices and pedagogies
- insight into Janene’s digital set-ups, practices and go-tos.
User Experience and Design Thinking – why this is covered in the new Digital Curriculum and why these are essential skills for students in the future
Greg Hodgson, Head of Design (Enterprise) at Atlassian will discuss the principals of User Experience and Design Thinking, his experience in industry and the vital skills students will need in all jobs in the future. Greg will be joined by curriculum author Dr. James Curran.
Digital Citizenship for Yr 3-6
Session Description: It's never been more important to inform and empower our students with digital citizenship skills to help navigate and thrive online. Join us as we explore Be Internet Awesome, a free multimodal series of digital citizenship learning experiences for students in years 3-6.
Getting Started in Your Journey to Achieve Carbon Neutral
Introducing sustainability concepts and common challenges to developing a sustainability strategy. Learning how to measure and adjust your strategy is to key to achieving your sustainability goals – if you can’t measure it, you can’t control it. Explore the use of available tools to drive impact across your sustainability goals and strategy.
Legal obligations for Principals
- Legal responsibilities of school Principals
- Duty of Care
- Common myths concerning education law
Case Study - The use of VR across various curriculum: How to use AR/VR to make non-IT subjects more engaging and interesting
Implementation and evolution of our remote learning program
Toward Net Zero: Driving sustainable energy management through machine learning and artificial intelligence
HyFlex Environments: Learning, teaching and innovation in the interconnected world
In this presentation we will explore how HyFlex activities will likely become a part of the global information exchange strategies which will allow students, staff and industry members across the globe to engage not just via online activities, video and audio but also via the virtual, mixed and immersive scenarios, so they can collaboratively learn, innovate, design and develop for the better tomorrow.
As a part of this session we will explore:
- What defines successful HyFlex environment?
- What skills are needed in the HyFlex environment?
- What the future of HyFlex may bring?
Fireside Chat: Network security - how to avoid a cyber attack
Panel - Future direction and potential issues for the public and private sectors - student attraction and retention
Designing a scope and sequence for Digital Technologies (primary/secondary)
The Digital Technologies subject is designed on the fundamental principle that core concepts are introduced and developed progressively as students move through the curriculum. In this talk, we’ll explain how this principle of design lends itself well to a multi-year scope and sequence, and how this can be used to inform decisions about your teaching programs in schools.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (F-10) looking to design learning programs that span multiple year levels in their schools.
- School Leaders, Curriculum Coordinators and ICT Integrators seeking to understand the breadth and depth of the Digital Technologies subject.
Workshop - Parsons problems - reading and understanding code (primary/secondary)
Panel: Design thinking & project management - Teaching the students
Panel: The systems needed for remote learning
Tech Intensity and Innovation for your IT Department
You've spent two days being inspired by all that is on offer at EduTech and are ready to go back and share with your school but how can you maintain the tech intensity and innovation in your IT department in a world that moves so quickly? Join this session from the always energetic Dan Bowen as he talks about the importance of innovating and upskilling, and shares with you the wealth or resources you and your staff can tap into to remain innovative and always be upskilling.
Panel: Why Principals need to care about cyber security
Practical ways to meaningfully engage students using AI
AI tools now allow more accessible ways for students and teachers to experiment with machine learning, and use this powerful technology in their own projects.
In this session, hear about a set of lessons and professional learning available to inspire teachers and inform their classrooms. Martin Richards and Nathan Alison were part of a development team to bring together this resource, freely available on the Digital Technologies Hub.
From image recognition to ethical questions, AI is an authentic and relatable context for delivering Digital Technologies in Australian schools.
Sustainable infrastructure for Australian Schools
Empowering students through equity-driven Human-Data Interaction
When students engage in online learning, they leave behind digital footprints, artifacts that trace their activities such as contributions, page views and communications.
These data are one aspect of the wider field of learning analytics (LAs). LAs encompass the broad data mining, collection, analysis, and sharing/reporting/disseminating of students’ digital footprints.
The collection, analysis and communication of students’ data should account for addressing structural inequalities such as the ways in which data has been used to predict students’ potential, to perpetuate exclusion and the ways in which data have been used commercially rather than for learning.
Attendees are called on to reimagine and discuss how LAs can be used to reconstruct students from passive “data subjects” into active participants in the processing of their personal data for their academic decision-making and success.
We will discuss the pitfalls of data-driven pedagogy as well as how LAs can serve to empower students in the pursuit of equitable human-data interaction through legibility, agency and negotiability.
Reasonable Security - lessons learnt from ASIC prosecution
As the Australian Tertiary education sector reboots in 2022, it should take note of the lessons learnt from the recent landmark judgement against RI Advice (a wholly owned subsidiary of ANZ) . While the judgement did not impose a penalty and any prescriptive cybersecurity standard , it clarified the meaning of ‘efficiently, honestly and fairly’under s 912A of the Corporations Act, in particular in the context of risk management of cybersecurity. Tertiary education IT policymakers are faced with the double whammy of constrained budget due to the prolonged subdue enrolment during the COVID lockdown while retooling to support a hybrid learning delivery model as students gradually return to campus-based engagement. The current review of the Australian Privacy Act (1998) by the Attorney Generalwith a specific focus on derived data further amplifies the data privacy management challenge in a hybrid educational delivery model where complex derived data are captured as a natural by-product with little guidance on security protection measures. This presentation brings together these diverse, interconnected and fast-moving elements to help the delegates better prepare to navigate these immediate challenges to deliver “reasonable security”.
School transformation: a framework for developing digital capability (primary/secondary)
The WA Department of Education has embarked on a project to help schools in WA increase their digital capability – for teaching, learning and administrative functions of their schools. In this talk, we’ll present the research behind the development of their Digital Capability Framework (DCF), and run through the ways the DCF tool helps schools evaluate their digital capability, and set strategic goals for developing it further.
Who Should Attend?
- School leaders seeking to understand their school’s existing digital capability, and looking to develop this further as part of their strategic agenda.
- Departmental administrators and leaders looking for tools to help their schools transform their practice to embrace digital tools to improve their effectiveness and productivity.
Go Further with Swift Playgrounds 4
This session builds on Build Apps with Playgrounds 4 and explores implementingcoding programs with the Everyone Can Code curriculum in secondary usingiPad. It will deep dive into the new features of Swift Playgrounds 4 and walkthrough how educators can support students using SwiftUI to create an app froma new, blank app project.
How to add esports into your curriculum
Lead a data informed school through data storytelling
Remote is not a dirty word
This presentation looks beyond the impact of COVID and examines the role of online learning platforms in a face-to-face teaching context, and how schools can use these platforms to achieve substantial school-wide outcomes for their teachers, students, and community.
Your school has access to world-class technology from Microsoft and Google at a minimal cost - or even for free! Chances are you already have the programs you need to affect positive change.
- Platforms like Teams and Google’s workplace suite are industry standard, and used as foundational platforms in professional organisations. Businesses know the power of these platforms, and centre their workforce around them. Schools can, too.
- Investing in any type of remote learning technology creates transferable skills in the real world - everything from platform knowledge, to improved digital literacy, to intelligent workflow design, to practical work skills (typing, file sharing, spreadsheet / data reading). This applies to both staff and students.
- Using the features offered by Teams and Google can transform the day to day - whether you need to collaborate on a policy, design a file sharing system, or communicate with students and staff, chances are there is a contemporary solution to your old, analogue problems. These platforms can give you the opportunity you need to make systemic changes to long-held existing practices.
- Best of all - your school gets with the times! Applying the features offered by remote learning platforms can transform your face-to-face teaching approach, and will become the norm. The remote delivery of education now has a viable precedent; the schools that get this, and get this early, will reap the rewards in the very near future. INVEST NOW.
Business and IT partnering to solve complex operational challenges?.
- Insights into ways that IT and Student Administration have collaborated to deliver tech solutions to ease the manual workload burden
- Details of a successful working model of collaboration to achieve ambitious goals
- Deep dive into Swinburne’s Quick Wins Project to deliver rapid results, easing the burden on staff, and streamlining the student experience.
Designing engaging Digital Technologies projects (primary/secondary)
In this talk, some of our Champion Teachers will share the projects they use and their pedagogical tips and tricks to deliver engaging Digital Technologies learning in their classrooms.
Who Should Attend?
- Primary and Secondary teachers (3-12) and pre-service teachers looking for inspiration and ideas for enhancing their Digital Technologies classes.
Workshop - School transformation: a framework for developing digital capability (primary/secondary)
Panel: Esports practice thinking in the education landscape
Q & A with Google for Education
You have questions? We have answers! Join this forum of Googlers, along with members of the Google Certified Innovator and Trainer communities, to ask your burning questions about what Google for Education offers to schools.
Breaking out - using escape rooms to assess 21st century skills
Discover how escape rooms can be used in the classroom to assess 21st century skills (collaboration, communication, and critical thinking). The presentation will also include tips and tricks for creating real-world and virtual escape rooms.
The Thriving School Library: A Sea Anchor for Stormy Times
- How the modern school library can (and should) be
- How school library staff can help support your strategic goals
Delivering the Connected Campus of the Future? - Juniper Networks
What are the strategies of senior leaders to deliver high performing and secure campus environments; and the role artificial intelligence could play in delivering the ideal experience.
