The Crowdsourced Keynote: co-creating learning
In the past two years we've never seen so many schools strive towards something more than a student-centred curriculum - more are seeking a student-created curriculum, where the individual's passion, interest and research takes them on the most personal of learning journeys, the teacher no more than a critical friend, the ultimate guide on the side. How does this translate into the efforts of Further and Higher Education? Are we setting youngsters up for a disappointment, where they return to the two dimensional world of lecture and seminar? Or are there new FE/HE practices emerging from this JISC online event that point the way towards new ways of designing learning together?This is a wrap-up keynote which will be entirely informed by the event itself, and by debate beforehand.
Presenter
Ewan McIntosh
Ewan McIntosh is CEO of NoTosh Limited, a startup that works with creative industries on the one hand, and then takes the processes, attitudes and research gained from working on those projects to the world of education, providing schools, districts and Governments all around the world with ideas, inspiration and research on how to better engage teens.
McIntosh was a French and German High School teacher, before moving from the classroom into technology research and leadership as Scotland’s first National Advisoron Learning and Technology Futures. He later helped set up one of the most ambitious investment funds from a public service broadcaster in the UK, the $100m 4iP Fund from Channel 4 Television.
His latest creative project was co-directing the digital side of the Scottish National Party's re-election campaign, resulting in a historic landslide majority win that technically "wasn't possible". Education projects are many and varied, working with schools on design thinking and developing leadership, helping create the world’s first TEDx event by and for eight year olds, and turning the textbook on its head through our interactive developments.
McIntosh is a “Digital Angel” to the Vice President of the European Commission and Digital Agenda Commissioner, Mrs Neelie Kroes. He is a also a Trustee of the RSA’s Opening Minds Curriculum and sits on the Board of Interactive Ontario’s INplay conference, showcasing where play, video games and learning meet.
He launched the world’s first iPad Investment Fund in 2010, has been at the centre of $5m of creative media investments since January 2010, including $2.5 of non-profit projects with the MacArthur Foundation to improve the learning of students from North America to India. Companies in which he has invested have won a Media Guardian Award for the Best App of 2010 and another developed one of Apple’s Top 30 All-Time Best Selling Apps, appearing in the Guardian’s Tech Invest 100, 2010.
A high school teacher until 2005, the Scottish Government’s first National Advisor on learning futures until 2008, he was then the first Digital Commissioner for Channel 4’s £50m Innovation for the Public Fund.
He frequently gives talks and workshops around the world, trying to find new and better ways of using emerging technologies in education, and exploring the changing physical environments that are required to best harness these opportunities. Ewan and his team are all about engaging people, whether they're voters, customers or kids in a classroom.
Facilitator
Tom Barrett
Tom Barrett is one of the UK’s best known classroom teachers, working in the elementary schools sector. Hecurates and shares thousands of practical ideas from teachers across the globe on his blog edte.ch, and puts into practice the very best thinking on educational technology to inspire and engage children in their learning.
Tom works on leadership, technology adoption and improving teacher capacity with NoTosh in schools across the UK, and inspires teacher audiences with fresh ideas for engaging young people in learning.
His reputation for seeing worthwhile trends in educational technology is well founded: he was the first teacher in the world to work with multitouch tables in the classroom, predating iPads by some three years in a partnership with Philips. He currently sits on the steering group for Durham University's SynergyNet project that is researching the future path of multi-touch pedagogy.
He has a keen interest in improving the engagement of teachers with professionaldevelopment. Tom:
- was a key figure in spreading the popularity of “for teachers, by teachers”unconference TeachMeet;
- devised the commercial partnership model of TeachMeet Takeovers at the world’s biggest education show, and;
- worked with Google to bring their teacher academy event to Google HQ London.
It was the first time Google held the teacher training event outside of the US. He has a particular passion for helping teachers connect and learn together through the use of online tools. He has been instrumental in supporting and encouraging thousands of teachers, the world over, to connect and to build networks that help support their professional development.
He frequently gives talks and workshops around the world, exploring new and better ways of using emerging technologies in education.
