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Computing at School
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I spoke about 'Algorithmic Thinking' at this event organised by the Computing at School association of educators concerned with improving the subject of computing.
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CAL '11
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As a member of the local organising committee I ran an exhibition of the National Archive of Educational Computing, and presented a paper on 'The Impact on Students of a Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education' and ran a workshop on the history of educational computing.
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Learning Environments Research
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I presented at this meeting of the Association for Learning Technology special interest group, titled 'Changing Learning Environments - What's Going On?. My presentation was called 'Change Management and Learning Environments' and was effectively a report on the Work-With-IT project I had been facilitating.
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Learning on the Beach 2011
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I helped to organise and contribute to this second informal conference held on the beaches of County Mayo in the West of Ireland. We discussed learning in the outdoors and informal approaches to education.
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EduSummit '11
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I was again a participant at this invitation-only international conference held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. It was designed to address the issues raise in the International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education.
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Computing at School 2011
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I presented on 'Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs', discussing the paucity of research into conceptual development amongst learners in computing.
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Collabor8 4 Change
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I facilitated two roundtable discussions at this 'unconference' held at BETT'12. In both cases I provoked discussion on a Conceptual Framework for Computing.
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JISC-CETIS 2011
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I joined two workshops at this working conference, on student retention and then on making sense of new models of learning organisation.
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Charities Learning Consortium
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I presented my work with Lesley McGuire (and Nigel Hulls) on creating a learning needs analysis tool for Macmillan Cancer Support. My part of the presentation was directed at asking the question - how can we make development using open source and agile development more cost-effective for the charity and voluntary sectors?
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UVAC 2012
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I organised a workshop with Bill Olivier on work-focussed learning.
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