ITTE Conference Oxford 2012 - Online Booking Now Open
ITTE Research and Practice Conference 2012
Thursday 5th - Saturday 7th July 2012 at St Anne’s College, Oxford
ITTE are pleased to announce the new style ITTE conference for 2012, to be held in the beautiful venue of St Anne's College, Oxford. This will be the first in a new series of biennial combined conferences, with a research strand, which replaces the previous biennial Research seminar, and the traditional annual practice-based conference.
Given the continuing uncertainty about developments in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) and the apparent threat to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a subject in the new English National Curriculum, this will be an excellent opportunity to hear experts’ views and to discuss the opportunities for and challenges to ICT/Computing/Technologies in Education and Initial Teacher Education more widely.
The programme will include key note speakers who are national and international experts in ITE and ICT/Computing, papers and posters on ITE and Technologies and discussion groups on a range of topics relevant to ITE and ICT/Computing in Education, providing participants with a stimulating three days of debate, discussion, socialising and networking.
Who should attend?
Anyone with an interest in the training of teachers and/or the use of technology in education.
- Teacher trainers
- Teachers
- Student teachers
- Technologists
- ICT consultants (education)
- Policy makers (education)
- Policy makers (ICT/Computing)
- Researchers (education)
- Researchers (technology in education)
- Researchers (teacher training/education)
Package costs
NO INCREASE – PRICES THE SAME AS 2011!
Residential cost:
For ITTE Members: £395.00 (early booking), £445.00 late booking
Non members pay an additional cost of £80.00. N.B it may be worthwhile to join and get the reduced rate, plus all the benefits of membership.
This includes:
- Full programme including key notes lectures, workshops, discussion groups
- En-suite accommodation at St Anne’s College for two nights
- Breakfast, refreshments, meals each day
- Conference dinner on Friday night
Early booking until 19th May 2012. Closing date 23rd June 2012.
Non- Resident rate: For ITTE Members: £340.00 (early booking), £360.00 late booking
- As above, but no accommodation
Non members pay an additional cost of £80.00. N.B it may be worthwhile to join and get the reduced rate, plus all the benefits of membership
Day Rate: For ITTE Members: £240.00 per day (early booking), £250.00 late booking.
- Full programme for the day
- Refreshments, lunch for the day
- Dinner on Thursday or Friday
Non members pay an additional cost of £80.00. N.B it may be worthwhile to join and get the reduced rate, plus all the benefits of membership
Location: St Anne’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HS (www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk)
The college is located in central Oxford, just north of the city centre near the University Parks and the University's Science Area.
Bus service or taxis available from Oxford station.
Car drivers should use the Peartree Park and Ride facility on the outskirts of the city (regular bus service stops outside St Annes College (Old Radcliffe). Parking for the 3 days of the conference will cost £4.50, plus the cost of the return bus ride.
Participation:
We welcome your participation in this event. If you would like to present a workshop, paper, poster or lead a discussion group, please contact Kate Watson kate.e.watson@exeter.ac.uk
IFIP Conference
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International Conference – AECRICT 2012 |
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Addressing educational challenges: the role of ICT 2nd – 5th July 2012 Manchester Metropolitan University, UK |
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Full conference details are available at http://www.esri.mmu.ac.uk/aecrict |
Download and read the updated conference brochure.
2011 Newsletters
Number 67 - Autumn 2011
Westminster Forum Report, Comings, Goings and Congratulations, Newbies, Digital Literacies in UK Education, Achievement for All, BBC News Report, ECER Report, Top Girl Appointments, ESSIE Survey and My New Toy...
ITTE Position Paper on ICT in the curriculum
This Position Paper has been produced following discussions within a sub-group of the national committee and in tandem with the production of ITTE's response to the consultation on disapplication of the ICT PoS and ATs. It has also been edited by the committee as a whole.
Please note that it includes a representative sample of publications from ITTE members to show our involvement over the years with ICT in the curriculum and in the training of teachers. If you have or know of more appropriate references please let us know via the board. Please do not hide your light(s) under a bushel - help us to promote ITTE's accumulated expertise.
Rik Bennett on behalf of the Committee
ITTE response to the DfE consultation on the ICT curriculum
The attached paper is a draft ITTE response to the DfE consultation on the ICT consultation: Updated by ITTE committee 22/2/12.
(See DfE website: closing date: Wednesday 11 April 2012 )
Please comment and discuss this in this forum.
Please note this document complements the ‘ITTE position paper’ and ‘About Us’ note that is being prepared concurrently by the committee. It sets out a draft of the association’s response to the consultation. Comments are invited and a finalised version will be produced in the week commencing 12 March for republication to members.
ICT Tutors website resources now available again
The resources from the ICT tutors website are now available again in a more stable and reliable format. Click in the tab at the top of the page, or here.
New hashtag
In an attempt to avoid some of the unwanted tweets from around the world that seem to use the #itte hashtag, it has been changed to #itteorg - please advise of any problems.
Learning Diaries for ICT
An important factor in learning is that you are aware that you have learnt something. For lower ability learners this may need a scaffolding structure and it is this need that these resources were set out to address.
Created by the BCS Teacher Education Working Group and the Lewisham LA team the initial focus was on supporting the original KS3 ICT Strategy units but this was then extended into other key stages by the Lewisham team.
Although no teachers should still be using the units as originally published, the format and ideas represented in the KS3 diaries are still pedagogically appropriate. The KS4 project diary is still probably useable as it stands and the KS2 diaries could give a focus to ICT work in upper primary.
Thanks to Gill Edwards for locating a full set of these resources following the demise of the Lewisham web site. The rationale for use is also included in the bundle of materials.
You are free to download and adapt but it might be nice if you could let others know how you are using them. I have been recommending learning diaries to my ICT trainees as a tool for use in lesson plenaries.
Neil Stanley
Writing Papers for Publication
The topic of writing for journals is one that many new colleagues often find rather bewildering. The world of academic writing can be a forbidding one for the newcomer, full of arcane knowledge and traditional, sometimes 'unwritten' rules.
In this article the ITTE Journal Editor, Steve Kennewell, shines a bright light into this murky area, and sets out a straightforward, easy to understand approach to producing a journal paper, from first conception of your ideas through to final draft and submission.
As journal editor, Steve welcomes submissions for the TPE journal. If you have ideas you wish to discuss with him, he can be contacted via the contact form.
Members can click here to read the article.
Keele Conference Presentations
A selection of resources from the ITTE Summer Conference at Keele University are now available online. You can browse the conference programme by clicking here or on the attachment below. Access to the resources is for members only.
