Synopsis
For decades, education has been an easy institution to define. It consisted of a set of acknowledged literacy skills, a definable body of knowledge, and the pedagogies for teaching those skills to willing students within information-scarce learning environments. Today, for the first time in decades, we are questioning our notions about teaching and learning, adapting to a world that is changing faster than our ability to react. We are struggling to rethink what it is to be educated, to reinvent where it happens, and redefine our roles, as the boarder between teacher and student starts to blur.

This presentation, by David Warlick who is an educator for over 30 years, author, and technologist, will explore some of these changes and challenges and arrange them as a set of converging conditions that might actually hold the clues for redefining and retooling 21st Century education.

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Synopsis
School leaders have the potential to develop schools as places where teachers continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured; where collective aspiration is set free; and where people are continually learning to learn together. This is the real and future work of school leaders whose ability to assure organisational learning, and broaden as well as deepen the leadership capacity of the school, will be the hallmark of sustained school success.

The responsibility of school leaders lies not only in improving student and school outcomes, rather they must have the ability to make informed decision based on knowledge of individual students, cohorts of students and targeted areas for whole school improvement.

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Synopsis
This presentation will look at the origins of the Web 2.0 meme and how it is impacting the future use of technology. Beyond Social Networks and Media, what impact will the rapid pace of technology advancement have on the way we acquire, use and learn from information? This presentation will explore the digitisation of everything, ranging from books and music that we enjoy today to futuristic technologies such as Augmented Reality and Ubiquitous Computing.

We will look beyond Web 2.0 into Web 3.0 - the future of Information Technology and how it will influence the direction of the Internet. We have seen massive shifts in thinking and business models due to the emergence of the social web with its rich application content, but the next Web will be more adaptable and provide context, meaning and ubiquity on a scale that few people can imagine. The presentation will delve into this coming mega trend and the impact it will have on the way we learn, work and live.

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