Conference 2015: Beyond the Horizon – Technology in Education

Vendor Exhibition, Registration, Refreshments

Fáilte & Conference Opening

Opening Keynote

Out Of This world – Tech To Inspire

Google Classroom in the… Classroom!

Design Thinking and Technology in the Classroom

The changing nature of digital images and how they can be used for recording and assessment

[10:15 – 10:45]

A 21st century’s digital School’s story on the BeeBot Application: Teaching programming, emotional social language development in a Primary school

[10:15 – 10:45]

Flipping the Classroom – Why and How

[10:15 – 10:45]

Technology to Empower Student-Led Learning

[10.45 – 11.15]

Technology and Languages in the Early Years

[10:45 – 11:15]

Introduction to Socrative and its use in the classroom

[10:45 – 11:15]

Khan Academy & MATHletes Challenge: innovative tools for blended learning

Break & Refreshments

Android Tablets in the Classroom

Beyond the Classroom Horizon – using online tools to shift the classroom horizon to the home

Edcite in the Classroom

Computational Thinking Unplugged – An overview of tools and approaches towards developing a definition of Computational Thinking

[11:45 – 12:15]

21st Century Storytelling in the Primary Classroom

[11:45 – 12:15]

Ready, Steady, Code!

[12:15 – 12:45]

Eyrecourt Examiner to the World!!

[12.15 – 12:45]

Managing a 1:1 environment & managing in a 1:1 environment

Plenary Panel Discussion

Are we there yet? Approaching the Horizon

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/sites/default/files/2014-nmc-horizon-report-eu-en_online.pdf

Lunch

Python from Scratch

Plan beyond the Horizon – a MaKey MaKey workshop

Robots Rule – or do they? Programme your own Sesca robot

Note: 2 x 45 mins (strict limit 24 pre-booked per each workshop, be sure to sign up at registration)

[14:15 – 14:45]

Making the abstract concrete: Contextualizing Humanities and Technology Skills in Heritage Sites

[14:15 – 14:45]

BYOD – Bring your own ‘Device’ or ‘Disaster’

[14:15 – 14:45]

Wikipedia for Education

[14:45 – 15:15]

Mathematics Classroom Contexts and Game-Based Learning:a Solution to Improving Students’ Attitudes Towards Mathematics

[14:45 – 15:15]

EUFolio – Project Update

[14:45 – 15:15]

MOOCs for Secondary School Students

[15:15 – 15:45]

Can a blended learning platform enable Irish to become a living language for L2 learners?

[15:15 – 15:45]

The Online Level 2 e-Planning Toolkit

[15:15 – 15:45]

The future is here but it is not evenly distributed

Break & Refreshments

Closing Keynote

World of Difference

Conference Closing

Annual General Meeting of the
Computers in Education Society of Ireland