QSITE Conference 2018 Workshops
QSITE connects and supports educators, institutions and their stakeholders so they may fully explore the opportunities Information Communication Technologies bring to Queensland education and its classrooms every day.
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QSITE Annual Conference 2018
Program: Day 1
A more detailed PDF copy of the two-day creativITy ’18 Conference Program is available via PDF. It contains biographies and a brief summary of all the presentations and workshops.
Day One contains half day workshops as detailed below after an opening keynote address from Dean Foley.
Day Two contains morning and afternoon keynote addresses along with streamed presentations during the remainder of the day.
Workshops – Thursday, 5 July
8:45 – 9:00
Level 2 – BR219
Welcome
9:00 – 10:00
Level 2 – BR219
KEYNOTE: Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Indigenous Perspective
Dean Foley
Founder at Barayamal
Microsoft RAP Advisory Board Member
CSIRO STEM Professional Early Career Award Winner
Entrepreneurship & Economic Development
Dean served five years in the Royal Australian Air Force before founding Australia’s Indigenous business accelerator, Barayamal – now known as a world leader in Indigenous Entrepreneurship. Dean is an action-oriented entrepreneur, Microsoft RAP Advisory Board Member, winner of the Indigenous Digital Excellence (IDX) Entrepreneurship Award, and proud Kamilaroi Man from Gunnedah, NSW.
10:00 – 10:30
Ground Floor
Morning Tea
Morning Workshops: 10:30 – 1:30
Digital Technologies Curriculum
Level 3 – BR334
Full Day Workshop
In this workshop you will gain hands on experiences with free, classroom-ready resources that support you to implement the Digital Technologies Curriculum. You will deep dive into Blockly and Python programming in what will cover the coding aspects of the Years 5-6 and 7-8 curriculum, focusing on defining and decomposing real-world problems, designing algorithms and implementing programs.
Presenters: Australian Computing Academy
Ben Paparoulas – Computing Education Specialist at the ACA and manages the Computer Assisted Learning Environment (CalEN) project at Beenleigh State School.
Karsten Shulz – Deputy Academic Director of the ACA and an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney.
We do Collaborate
Level 1 – BR113
Participants will require an iPad (or similar device) with the WeDo 2.0 LEGO Education app installed.
Half Day Workshop: Morning
Half Day Workshop: Afternoon (repeated)
Collaboration is a critical skill in contemporary education and for success in life. Young students require specific opportunities to practise team work, taking turns, listening and negotiating to develop collaborative skills. Learning about robotics is an engaging and motivating opportunity for students to experience team work.
Through a STEM learning experience, Year 2 students created animated models using LEGO We Do 2.0. The teachers observed the strategies children employed to work effectively to achieve common goals, and their ability to negotiate when creating a shared robotics solution.
In this workshop, participants will be presented with a brief overview of the action research project conducted by the Year 2 teachers at Good News Lutheran School, and then have an opportunity to design and build a robot using a WeDo 2.0 Kit. Participants will require an iPad (or similar device) with the WeDo 2.0 LEGO Education app installed.
Presenter: Jane Batham
Digital Learning Facilitator at Good News Lutheran School, and an Apple Professional Learning Specialist
Introduction to Robotics EV3
Level 1 – BR111
Half Day Workshop: Morning
Find out how to excite and inspire your students and discover how to integrate robotics into your curriculum. Learn practical ideas and activities to run in your classroom using the latest LEGO MINDSTORMS system and discover why robotics is fast becoming a major tool in the teaching of the Technology, Maths and Science.
**No prior experience necessary!**
Presenter: Damien Kee, Domabotics
Damien is an independent technology education expert, who specialises in bringing technology concepts to teachers and educators around the world.
Unpacking Senior Digital Solutions
Level 3 – BR328
Please bring your laptop with a simple text editor installed. Internet access required for some activities.
Half Day Workshop: Morning
This half day workshop is designed for teachers preparing for the implementation of the Senior Digital Solutions subject in 2019. The aim of the workshop is to develop a deeper understanding of subject matter prescribed by the syllabus that is new or different to approaches teachers may have used previously. A range of Digital Solutions problem solving phases, technology contexts and units will be considered as participants:
- Explore a problem in a chosen technology context using a mind map
- Evaluate a database using normalisation
- Develop a data flow diagram that symbolises interactions between user interfaces and databases
- Generate a simple data exchange prototype.
Presenter: Kylie Docherty
Kylie Docherty is a Senior IPT & ITS teacher at Mansfield SHS and co-author of the new Digital Solutions for QCE textbook.
Digital Aviation: Drones – Implementing Drones into the School Curriculum
Level 1 – BR110
Half Day Workshop: Morning
Implementing drone technology into the school curriculum can be overshadowed by safety concerns, Australia’s aviation laws and confusion with platform choices? Perfect for beginners or teachers wanting to up-skill, our curriculum applications, tips and tricks will develop teacher skills and knowledge in compliance, safety, risk mitigation (CASR Part 101) and operation requirements before instructing and/or operating in any school setting. Practical Handbook Resource for each participant is included in this program.
Presenter: Cran Middlecoat
Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) licensed airline pilot and drone pilot. With over 20 years aviation experience from Aerial stock mustering, flying clinic runs for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in outback Australia, and flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, his qualifications include a Flight Crew Licence, AROC, RePL (Drones) in the fully unlimited category (i.e. any drone, anywhere, anytime). He is also a self-confessed Aerospace Geek, with a serious tinkering habit. His Award-winning aerospace invention created a spectacular STEM resource for the enquiry pathways being used in education nationwide.
Everyone Can Create with iPad
Half Day Workshop: Morning
Creativity helps students become better communicators and problem solvers. Creative thinking leads to deeper engagement, so students take more ownership of their learning. The Everyone Can Create curriculum enables students to express their ideas in any subject. This new resource infuses core creative skills into the topics and subjects you teach.
Join us as we delve into creative classroom experiences that will spark new ideas to support students to develop and communicate their ideas and make meaning for themselves.
Presenter: Linda Pitt, Apple
Linda Pitt is the Development Executive for the Apple Education in QLD and focuses on the effective use of iPad and Mac in learning environments.
Linda has worked previously as the Executive Manager, Learning and Participation at State Library of Queensland and Transformational Learning Manager for the Queensland Department of Education and Training.
Sparking Creativity with Adobe
To make the most of this workshop, install Spark Video, Spark Post & Spark Page on your iOS device or just have a browser handy to access the online version on your laptop.
Half Day Workshop: Morning
Adobe Spark is a set of free creativity tools from Adobe that are being used to enhance creativity in classrooms around the world. They are a great introduction to the amazing world of Adobe creativity software because they are so simple to use and accessible. Available for iOS and via a web browser, students and teachers are able to use Adobe Spark to make posters, videos and web pages quickly and easily. In this interactive workshop (run by Dr Tim Kitchen, Adobe’s Education Specialist for APAC) you will be shown how Spark is making a positive creative difference to classrooms across the globe. To make the most of this workshop, install Spark Video, Spark Post & Spark Page on your iOS device or just have a browser handy to access the online version on your laptop.
Presenter: Tim Kitchen
With close to thirty years of teaching and education leadership experience, Dr Tim Kitchen is currently Adobe’s Senior Education Specialist for Asia Pacific. Tim regularly liaises schools & universities with a focus on enhancing creativity in education. He also manages the Adobe Education leadership and active use programs throughout Australasia and helps lead the Adobe Education Exchange (https://edex.adobe.com) which now has over 500,000 members. A passionate advocate for creativity in education, and a well-recognised education thought leader in Australia, Tim is a regular presenter for a wide range of national and international education events.
Tim’s website – Tim’s blog – Tim’s email – Tim’s twitter – Tim’s online bio
Video samples of Tim’s work can be found via CreateEDU TV on Vimeo
1:30 – 2:00
Ground Floor
Lunch
Afternoon Workshops: 2:00 – 5:00
Empowering a new wave of creativity with Windows 10 3D for everyone
Level 1 – BR114
Half Day Workshop: Afternoon
Windows 10 now brings so many options to allow students to bring their work to life with 3D. Learn how Paint 3D empowers students to create in 3D with ease. See how these can be viewed in Mixed Reality, added to Office documents, reports and presentations or even movies using Photo Remix. We’ll take a look at all of these tools as well as showcase how you can export 3D objects created in Minecraft Education Edition!
Presenter: Amanda Frampton, Microsoft
Amanda works as part of Microsoft Australia Education.
Beyond the Basics of Robotics EV3
Level 1 – BR111
Half Day Workshop: Afternoon
You’re confident making your robot mover around and react to sensor input, but looking to push your EV3 kit just a little further? In this workshop, teacher will build and program a range of different activities, from classroom attendance counters, to games to Musical Instruments, all with the standard LEGO EV3 kit. Programming topics will include Data Hubs, Wiring, Switches, Variables, Bluetooth and Datalogging.
Presenter: Damien Kee, Domabotics
Damien is an independent technology education expert, who specialises in bringing technology concepts to teachers and educators around the world.
Computational Thinking Strategies
Level 1 – BR110
Participants bring a laptop computer and/or tablet device.
Half Day Workshop: Afternoon
Participants will:
- unpack the Computational Thinking skills in the Digital Technologies curriculum (short presentation)
- develop a deeper understanding of computational thinking through scaffolded unplugged and device-connected activities including:
- different types of computational thinking skills
- sequencing as the first step in algorithmic thinking
- visual programming languages and simple algorithms in a geometric context
- how choice (branching) works in algorithmic thinking
- how data can be useful to teach concepts across learning areas
- how computational thinking can be used to support literacy and numeracy (hands-on activities)
- understand the ways computational thinking could be used in everyday teaching and learning activities (discussion).
Presenter: Sarah Hobson
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority
Implementing Senior Digital Solutions
Level 3 – BR328
Half Day Workshop: Afternoon
This half day workshop is designed for teachers preparing to implement the new Senior Digital Solutions subject in 2019. The aim of the workshop is to provide a brief overview of the syllabus subject matter and review the process recommended by QCAA for creating a Teaching and Learning Plan (TLAP). Participants will be grouped according to their preferred technology context and provided with opportunities to collaborate to develop their own TLAPs for 2019.
Presenter: Kylie Docherty
Kylie Docherty is a Senior IPT & ITS teacher at Mansfield SHS and co-presenter for some of the QCAA Digital Solutions implementation workshops.
Digital Technologies Curriculum
Level 3 – BR334
Full Day Workshop (continued from morning session)
See above.
Presenters: Australian Computing Academy
Ben Paparoulas – Computing Education Specialist at the ACA and manages the Computer Assisted Learning Environment (CalEN) project at Beenleigh State School.
Karsten Shulz – Deputy Academic Director of the ACA and an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney.
We do Collaborate
Level 1 – BR113
Participants will require an iPad (or similar device) with the WeDo 2.0 LEGO Education app installed.
Half Day Workshop: Afternoon (repeated morning session)
See above.
Presenter: Jane Batham
Digital Learning Facilitator at Good News Lutheran School, and an Apple Professional Learning Specialist
5:00 – 6:00
Trade Exhibitor Area
Drinks and Finger Food
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