2018 Agenda

AR (combination of the digital and physical) and VR (immersion into new environments) are bringing new dimensions to teaching and learning. Capture your student’s imagination to improve learning outcomes. Take away specific insights on:

• Empowering your students to engage in their own learning process
• Adapting new methods to reach your struggling students
• Elevating your teaching from learning content to experiencing it

Maximize your student’s experience using cutting edge mixed reality methods.

Implementing innovative education technology tools must be balanced against limited financial resources in schools. Get the most out of your technology by utilizing the numerous free resources available. Take away strategies to:

• Build technical solutions into your curriculum
• Integrate software solutions to save your faculty and students time
• Access resources to optimize implementation

Use free tools to reduce your Ed Tech costs.

With nearly one million Canadians living in rural areas without Internet access, derive lessons from one teacher’s learning from rural Scotland. Reduce the impact of the technology access gap to produce complete students. Source practical tips to:

• Rethink your teaching environment with innovative new approaches
• Boost the effectiveness of the resources at your disposal
• Benchmark your organization against international standards

Using the Scotland example, engineer new ways to increase your student capabilities.

Technology can support teachers triangulate evidence and uncover curriculum through the curiosities of the child when observing play and guiding inquiry. Determine what role technology-supported pedagogical documentation can play to facilitate a student-centred classroom. Gain insights to:

• Assume a “Teacher as a Researcher” approach
• Leverage technology and applications in order to collect data that showcases a 21st century learner’s competencies
• Create a plan to support the pedagogical approaches you already see in a classroom

Discover new methods to teach students creative problem solving, critical thinking, and working collaboratively.

Join the conference speakers and your peers for a relaxing lunch.

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) currently bridges 1000km between its host institutions. Acquire best practices from their electronic distance education model to enhance your digital programs. Create a roadmap to:

• Enhance flexible learning
• Reduce distance limitations
• Adapt a community engaged learning model

Craft an effective distance-learning model with technology to enhance student outcomes.

There is a growing amount of student data coming from unstructured datasets such as third-party apps, digital portfolios, and collected reports. Identify the challenges to our existing data models and the potential of unstructured data to improve student support. Gain insights to:

• Address lost opportunities of overlooking unstructured data
• Understand vendor issues in adopting usable data standards and procedures
• Identify the limitations of relational databases for unstructured data

Realize the potential of unstructured data to better understand your students.

Tap into the knowledge of fellow speakers and attendees to tackle the challenges facing your organization. Engage in discussion on what you can do to improve student learning with technology. Collaborate to:

• Identify cost-effective learning tools
• Cultivate open and collaborative learning environments
• Seamlessly implement new technologies in the classroom

Take away experienced perspectives to bring change to your organization

Acquire key insights from the 27 class collaborative projects undertaken here in Ontario that leverage collaborative tools. Understand how you can incorporate collaborative technology tools to increase student achievement. Gain insight on:

• Increasing critical thinking skills with project-based activities
• Increasing your student’s digital citizenship
• Optimizing collaborative learning technologies

Establish a roadmap to incorporate collaborative learning into your existing curriculum.

In the digital age, and the fake news era, the information available to students is vast and of various levels of quality. Steer your students towards quality information to enhance their critical thinking capabilities. Set an action plan to:

• Increase your student’s ability to scrutinize the information they view
• Guide students towards credible sources of information
• Prepare your students with required future research and professional skills

Guarantee your students synthesize online information in an accurate manner.

Step outside the “bubble” of your current program and look at the trends set to shape your future educational needs. Acquire fresh insight on the technology and process trends that will innovate your teaching capabilities. Create a roadmap to:

• Source new technology inspiration to increase your student learning potential
• Adapt your current processes to remain agile in response to pupil needs
• Inspire new research on Ed Tech approaches that might work for you

Gain cutting edge solutions to your future education technology needs.

Educational organizations often struggle to identify the best pedagogical approach to engage students with Academic Integrity content. A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo created an open-access, mobile e-learning application to improve student engagement with academic material. An official release of the IntegrityMatters App will be launched at the workshop. Gain insights to:

• Develop strategies to enhance student academic integrity knowledgeam
• Explore the ways mobile learning can resonate with student populations
• Consider approaches to implement the mobile application into your courses or curriculum
• Experience to mobile app to discover how mobile learning can make academic integrity education immersive and engaging

Help students be better prepared for the demands of higher education.

Google communication and collaboration tools are available to the entire learning community for free. Pedagogical applications and best practices will be shown in conjunction with hands-on exercises. Source best practices to:

• Leverage the entire Google Suite of products in your teaching
• Tap into the cloud platform to open up collaboration from anywhere
• Integrate these tools as part of their teaching strategies

Walk away with a plan implementation that will improve your faculty’s utilization of technology.