CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

SCHOOL VISITS & LEARNING JOURNEYS: TUESDAY, 27 MARCH 2012
Time Activity
0730 hrs Registration for School Visits
0900 hrs School Visits
1230 hrs Registration for Learning Journey
1400 hrs Learning Journeys


PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: WEDNESDAY, 28 MARCH 2012
Time Activity
1300 hrs Registration
1400 hrs Workshops


MAIN CONFERENCE - DAY 1: THURSDAY, 29 MARCH 2012
Time Activity
0800 hrs Registration
0900 hrs Welcome Address
0930 hrs Keynote Address 1
1030 hrs Tea Break / Exhibition
1100 hrs Concurrent Session 1
1200 hrs Lunch
1330 hrs Keynote Address 2
1430 hrs Concurrent Session 2
1530 hrs Tea Break / Exhibition
1600 hrs Concurrent Session 3
1700 hrs End of Day 1


MAIN CONFERENCE - DAY 2: FRIDAY, 30 MARCH 2012
Time Activity
0830 hrs Concurrent Session 4
0930 hrs Concurrent Session 5
1030 hrs Tea Break / Exhibition
1100 hrs Concurrent Session 6
1200 hrs Lunch / Exhibition
1430 hrs Keynote Address 3
1530 hrs Panel Discussion
(15min executive summary
with Q&A session by all keynote speakers)
1630 hrs Closing Address
1730 hrs End of Conference




The theme for the conference is
Do IT! Transform Learning, Shape the Future.

The strands are:

Envision: ICT leadership in creating visions and providing conditions in leading change; and professional development initiatives in using ICT to bring about pedagogical changes. This strand includes:
  • Professional Development
    This examines how teacher capacity building comprising aspects of teaching strategies, pedagogy mastery and professional competency development are undertaken to meet evolving learner needs.
  • School Improvement
    This sub-strand focuses on the identification of learning and developmental needs, and the formulation of changes by school leadership in the process of redefining 21st Century student learning outcomes.
  • Change Management
    This sub-strand focuses on how ICT leaders envision, lead and address change management issues in the process of integrating ICT within the school curriculum.
  • Technology Planning and Integration
    This sub-strand examines how schools forecast future trends and strategise the translation of learner outcomes through innovative ICT integrative programmes.

Engage: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age focuses on designing, implementing and evaluating ICT-enriched learning student experiences that incorporate aspects of:
  • ICT pedagogy/pedagogical practices
    This sub-strand focuses on ICT classroom strategies that effectively integrate with teachers' pedagogical practices to derive engaging, effective and meaningful student-centric learning.
  • Collaborative Learning
    This sub-strand focuses on the challenges, issues and solutions in undertaking collaborative learning through assisted technology.
  • Self-directed Learning
    This sub-strand focuses on the strategies, processes and programmes that encourage students to manage, monitor, extend their learning, and self-regulate their personal development in cognitive and affective domains.

Explore: Innovative and Emerging technology learning environments that brings about enriching learning experiences on use of emerging technologies. This strand includes:
  • Social networking avenues
    This sub-strand focuses on how online social network services like blog, forum, instant messaging, Twitter and Facebook provide new opportunities for learners to come together to communicate, share, collectively learn and form their own communities of interests.
  • Learning Management System
    This sub-strand focuses on how learning management systems can be effectively used to manage learning activities, aid administration, manage resources, and document learner performance.
  • Emerging learner-enabled platforms
    This sub-strand focuses on affordances of emerging platforms such as mobile technology, immersive game play and virtual worlds, and their impact on enhancing teachers' pedagogical approach to student learning.
  • Student Assessment
    This sub-strand focuses on assessing pedagogy effectiveness, measuring outcomes of learning activities and provision of guidance to learners (assessment for learning) through assisted technology.








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