Energise 2018

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Designed in consultation with schools in the area, the aim of the conference is to support schools with professional learning around their needs. 2016 saw the launch of Energise in Ashburton, Mid Canterbury. With 300 delegates it was an absolute success. Cyclone is dedicated to organising a conference that is purely education focussed, no sales pitches, nothing to buy, just a really great energising conference. Ticket sales are limited to ensure this event remains homely and focussed.

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The Education Changemakers are joining us again. This time to run 2 x full day leadership workshops.

This was definitely one of the best conferences I've been to. There was a genuine sense of educators getting together to improve our practice for our students - No marketing! 

Ali Carr-Chellman: Re-engaging students in learning - Keynote

Dean & Professor of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Idaho will address using games to engage the disengaged learner. Taking the perspective of respecting cultural differences, Dean Carr-Chellman will focus on ways that games map onto traditional classroom outcomes for active learners, and how boys describe their learning experiences when gaming. These ideas taken together will help to justify why we should consider games as an important addition to our curricular materials. Dean Carr-Chellman earned her doctorate at Indiana University and spent much of her academic career in the Learning Performance Systems department at Penn State University. Her research interests center on user-design, instructional design, school change, systems theory, and gaming to re-engage disengaged learners. Her TED talk Gaming to re-engage boys in learning outlines her understandings of boys as disengaged learners and ways that games may help with this problem.

Sylvia Duckworth: Why Creativity Matters - Keynote

Sylvia Duckworth is an award-winning French teacher and technology coach from Toronto, Canada with more than 30 years teaching experience in the public and private systems. Her mantra is “Connect, Collaborate, Create” and she is constantly searching for ways to enable teachers and students to maximize these opportunities. She is a Google Certified Innovator, a Level 1 and 2 Google Educator, Google Certified Trainer, Apple Certified Teacher, and Apple Distinguished Educator. She is the author of the book “Sketchnotes for Educators” and a huge believer in the power of the doodle. You can find her resources at sylviaduckworth.com.