Keen to learn more about embedding Microsoft technologies in your teaching and learning? Check out our Professional Development sessions below.
Discover just how many tools Microsoft has to offer for creating the ultimate teaching and learning environment within your school. And then, learn how these tools can be used across the curriculum to engage your students.
We’ll help you a create safe and supportive learning environment where learning is inclusive, students are engaged, and real-time insights ensure every student is set up for success.
Microsoft's featured Keynote: The Emotion Contagion: The Compelling Case for EdTech and 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.
Leading Learning Acceleration: What Matters Most? - For K-12 Leadership
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.
IT Avengers Assemble - Build and Empower Your IT Universe – For K-12 IT Leaders
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 or Black Widow 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.
August 10th – Microsoft EduDay Teacher Professional Development
Microsoft specialists and experienced Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts will introduce you to new features within Microsoft 365 and share how you can make the most of the educational technologies you already know and love. Be equipped with a variety of tools that are inclusively designed to help accelerate learning and foster well-being in the classroom.
August 11th – Microsoft IT IQ Hub
Our expert-led sessions will cover a range of topics, so whether you’re looking for real time student insights, tools to keep your environment safe and secure, or want to take a deeper dive into what a connected school solution looks like, there’s plenty to explore. You’ll also hear from Australian IT pros and partners who use Microsoft solutions to transform schools.
Support hybrid and blended learning. Learn how Microsoft Teams provides innovative learning tools for both remote and physical environments.
Learn how Reflect, built-into Teams, helps learners navigate their emotions, broaden their emotional vocabulary, and deepen empathy for their peers.
See some of your favourite features reinvented and discover what's new in one of our all-time favourite tools for the classroom
Explore how free Microsoft 365 tools can create inclusivity and support special education needs in reading, writing, math, and communication.
Find interactive lessons, earn professional development hours, acquire certifications & find programs that help meet your goals with the new Microsoft Learn Educator Center.
Explore how Education Insights can empower educators with actionable data and analytics about student engagement, well-being, performance, and more.
Discover how Flipgrid's updates and new, easy-to-use features can amplify and empower every student's voice!
Learn how you can help readers build confidence and accelerate reading fluency using exciting features of Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams.
Climate change is reshaping our environment. Discover how Minecraft helps students engage in creative problem solving for today's toughest issues.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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