Expanded+Learning+Horizons

2009: **Introductory Keynote session: Andrew Douch, Shepparton.** · Democratising of education: we need to work on being relevant to our students. · Machines can now replace the thinking skills in the way that the industrial revolution replaces human muscle. · Gen Y kids have need to be connected all the time. · School forces disconnection. · Connection is not all about computers. · Information is free and ubiquitous. (Economically then it is perceived as having little value). · Use web 2.0 to reduce the amount of things you need to explain during a lesson. The teacher does not have to be physically with them for them to be learning about the topic. Can be doing something else while a video or audio covers repetitive or basic aspects of teaching. This gives time to the teacher. · Teachers’ work will become more about emotional support and relationship development. · Block or educate? __ Andrew’s selection tool for new web 2.0 applications: __  1. Save time? Mine, others, curriculum, students; time neutral.  2. Different? Better? Or just different. Evolution or revolution?  3. Better results? Better learning outcomes?  4. Desire paths? E.g finding a use for mobile phones. Need to put “fences” in to delineate what is or is not reasonable in a web 2.0 environment. **__Keynote session Travis Smith:__** 21 of the 26 things that can be controlled relate to what a teacher can do with their students. ** [] use with staff to see what technology can do for our students. Teacher training needs to change focus: students now have access to most of the knowledge. TT needs to focus on how to best deliver methods of accessing knowledge in order to assist students to master it. Teaching and learning needs to be a two way exchange of ideas. We all need to be learning with technology.
 * Schools need to invest in teachers and technology: