Charles Leadbeater

Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and creativity. He has advised companies, cities and governments around the world on innovation strategy and drew on that experience in writing his latest book We-think: the power of mass creativity, which charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation from science and open source software, to computer games and political campaigning.

We-think was the latest in a string of acclaimed books: Living on Thin Air, a guide to living and working in the new economy; Up the Down Escalator, an attack on the culture of public pessimism accompanying globalisation and In Search of Work, published in the 1980's, which was one of the first books to predict the rise of more flexible and networked forms of employment.

Charles has worked extensively as a senior adviser to the governments, advising the 10 Downing St policy unit, the Department for Trade and Industry and the European Commission on the rise of the knowledge driven economy and the Internet, as well as the government of Shanghai. He is an advisor to the Department for Education's Innovation Unit on future strategies for more networked and personalised approaches to learning and education. He is a co-founder of the public service design agency Participle.

Charles spent ten years working for the Financial Times where he was Labour Editor, Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief before becoming the paper's Features Editor. In 1994 he moved to the Independent as assistant editor in charge of features and became an independent author and advisor in 1996.

Nathan Lowe

Nathan is Acting Principal at The Flitch Green Academy in Essex and has been part of the Leadership Team who opened Flitch Green as a brand new primary school in September 2008 and had it judged as 'outstanding’ by Ofsted 19 months later.

Nathan is Acting Principal at The Flitch Green Academy in Essex and has been part of the Leadership Team who opened Flitch Green as a brand new primary school in September 2008 and had it judged as 'outstanding’ by Ofsted 19 months later.

Nathan is an Apple Distinguished Educator and has presented at a range of events, seminars and workshops, sharing with educators how technology can be embedded within a creative curriculum

Patrick Larkin

Patrick Larkin is the newly appointed Assistant Superintendent for Learning for Burlington Public Schools in Massachusetts. Prior to this, Patrick served 15 years as a building level administrator at the high school level. He was recently selected as one of three national Digital Principal Award winner by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). In addition he was recently featured in an article in T.H.E. Journal titled 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-Leading Principals.

Patrick’s school has recently made the transition to a 1:1 environment for the 2011-2012 school year after distributing over 1,000 iPads to staff and students. He is active presenting to colleagues on the power of social media for administrators, teachers, and students.

In addition, he is an avid blogger and a proponent of social media to better engage teachers, students, and parents in the education process. Patrick is one of the founders of the Connected Principals Blog and #cpchat on Twitter. He is one of the authors of the Super Book of Web Tools for Educators, an avid blogger and a proponent of social media to better engage teachers, students, and parents in the education process. His article Getting Connected was published in September’s issue of Principal Leadership. Most recently (June 2012), he was featured in an article in Technological Horizons in Education’s THE Journal entitled 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals.

Prior to serving as a school administrator, Patrick was a high school English teacher. As an Assistant Principal, Patrick was named Assistant Principal of the Year in the state of Massachusetts. He also is a former Executive Board member in the Massachusetts Secondary Schools Administrators Association (MSSAA) and he recently completed a two year term as a member of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges Commission on Public Secondary Schools (NEASC).

Both Burlington High School and Patrick have been highlighted in national and regional publications during Patrick’s tenure at BHS.

Stephen Heppell

Stephen is professor in Bournemouth University's Media School in the Centre of Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) research centre, and at Universidad Camilo José Cela, in Madrid. He has a more than three decade long portfolio of leading edge media, new media and interactive projects from pioneering video-disc and CD-ROM in the 80s, through on-line communities in the 90s to mobile technologies today. Stephen was a founder board member of Teachers TV, is a board member of Skill Set, is non-excecutive director on the board of Digital Jersey, and is Chairman of the global company Learning Possibilities +.

In June 2006 Stephen was awarded the Royal Television Society's Judges Award for Lifelong Services to Educational Broadcasting. The Department for Education and Skills described him as ""the most influential academic of recent years in the field of technology and education

Kate Duggan & Rachel Stevens

Kate and Rachel are Speech and Language Therapists at Bridge College in Manchester. They are both experienced in working with a range of high tech solutions to support individuals with communication impairments to be able to interact with those around them. Bridge College is a specialist further education college which caters for students aged 16 to 24 with learning disabilities and autism. iPad’s are widely used by the team and across college to support individuals learning across the curriculum. Kate and Rachel will give examples of how iPads can be used to support students to express themselves and participate at college and in other environments.

Anne-Marie Medhurst & Simon Thomas

Simon Thomas from 9ine Consulting is an experienced education consultant with more than 15 years experience working for large education organisations supporting them to develop and deliver transformations change projects with a focus on new technologies.

Anne-Marie Medhurst is an experienced SEN teacher & ICTCO and has been teaching for over 10 years at Milestone Academy.

Anne-Marie and Simon will share their experiences from Milestone Academy where personalised learning has been enhanced and supported by 1:1 and Apple mobile devices.

Milestone Academy

Milestone Academy is a special school catering for children aged 2-19, who have profound, severe and complex needs. It is the largest special school in Kent, and one of the largest in the UK, with 260 learners and 250 staff.

“Personalised learning is embedded within our culture, looking at every individual child and their level of disability and then supporting them to make progress” Margaret Fisher Principal

Milestone gained Ofsted Outstanding in 2012 and their teaching and learning methodologies are continuously developing to enhance the quality of their personal learning provision.

9ine Consulting

Who are we? 9ine is a UK technology-based consultancy that provides the education sector independent leadership, support and technical assurance when developing new and established technologies to support teaching and learning.

What do we know? Over the past two years 9ine has found personalised learning at the forefront of curriculum design and integration. Learners and practitioners wish to take more responsibility for their technology experience. Key to this is the learners access to technology and the greater need for technology and digital content to be in the hands of the individual learners, or available in their learning environments and accessible when needed.

Why 9ine? Our objective is to make sure the 'teacher and learner tool kit' has the most appropriate and sustainable technology solution to enhance the learning experience. We provide strategic, operational, technical and educational focused support on integrating technology within an organisations learning culture. We are leaders in the deployment of mobile device strategies and embedding devices such as the iPad to really make a difference.

9ine are currently supporting the following organisations develop and integrate transformational change projects with a focus on mobile technologies:

• Zurich International School
• Nottingham Trent University Business School
• Longfield Academy (UKs 1st 1000+ iPad project)
• De La School Essex
• Chiswick Community School
• Wilmington Academy
• Milestone SEN Academy

If you would like to know more about or services, projects and where we can help please get in contact:
www.9ine.uk.com
020 8144 6916
info@9ine.uk.com
63 Wingate Square London SW4 0AF

Mark Bunyan

Having taught in Further Education and been a media technology educator specialising in CPD for teachers for the last 12 years, Mark has a vast pool of experience to draw on as an eLearning Project Manager to a dynamic school in Stoke on Trent. This current role involves successfully implementing an iPad scheme as well as placing Apple technology right through the school.

He is a well respected Apple Distinguished Educator and speaker, having delivered presentations both nationally and internationally. Leading enthusiastic workshops on innovation and creativity with Apple technologies is his daily business. As such he is always in demand for technology demonstrations particularly with the massive growth in iPad use for education.

Howard Bousfield

Howard Bousfield is a serving head teacher in a primary school in Stockport. He has transformed the standards, attainment and provision at his school, Norris Bank in the eight years he has been there. The school received an 'outstanding' judgement in their most recent Ofsted inspection, in part due to their innovative approaches to teaching and learning.

Howard is inspired by and committed to developing the use of digital technology in school to aid learning across the curriculum. He has successfully introduced the use of iPod touches and iPads his key stage two classrooms.

Presentation name - Making 'iPod dreams' a reality in a primary setting.

Claire Hamshire

Claire has worked at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) since 2003; initially as a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy and from 2008 as a Senior Learning and Teaching Fellow in Technology Enabled Learning. This role combines faculty teaching with a cross institutional contribution to technology and games-based innovation.

Hannah Crumbleholme

Hannah spent many years teaching in the FE sector before making the transition to HE to work as a learning technologist. She is currently employed as an E-learning Support Officer within the Learning Innovation division at MMU supporting the Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care.

Lisa Cowell

Lisa Cowell, Director of Learning and Teaching at Penwortham Priory Academy, talks about the impact that their 1:1 iPad scheme is having on learning and teaching across the curriculum.

Penwortham Priory Academy provides cutting edge learning experiences by giving students access to technology at home and in every lesson. They enable all learners to independently take their learning further 24/7. Teachers are rising to the challenge of providing ever more exciting and engaging lessons and pupils are truly becoming co-constructors of their own education.

The introduction of iPads has brought about significant change at the Academy and is positively impacting on their goal of becoming first choice, locally respected and nationally recognised.

Jim Hourigan

Head of a medium size 11-16 Co-ed school. Fully comprehensive with a higher than national average EAL intake. Converter Academy having previously been a dual specialist Sports and Technology school. Chair of the Lancashire Heads Leadership and Management sub group. Satellite school for the Lancashire Pennine Leadership & Management Academy. Previously an OFSTED Inspector now training under the current regulations as a new Inspector.

Jim has a real passion for succession planning and growing leaders within a creative and innovative culture of self-expression. “Don’t make the same old mistakes, make new ones” is his mantra alongside the tried and tested ‘if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got’. He has featured on Specialist Schools DVD’s on curriculum innovation and distributed leadership as well as presenting at several regional and national conferences on a variety of topics.

Back in 2000 Priory flood cabled the whole school as we saw the need to give access to computers and the internet everywhere. Between then and now upgrades and developments have taken place (as in all institutions). In 2011 we began to look at the infrastructure and plan for the next few years, but plan for what? What did the future look like for learning ? More of the same or even more white elephants?(whiteboards). Or were we on the cusp of a revolution in the way children learn and teachers teach? Was the true advent of independent learning about to hit us? If so we needed to plan for it.

Mobile technology IS the future so how do you plan, lead and manage for such a fundamental change? Mobile phones, iPads, kindles and the dreaded social media. Have we got all the answers? NO, but what I do know is that as a Head if I don’t lead the school into this future who will? And who’s children will suffer if I don’t?

Showk Badat

Showk Badat was born in 1962 in Northern Rhodesia, later to become Zambia. He arrived in the UK in 1966 and settled in Bolton Lancashire. His father worked on the nightshift in local textile mills and his mother, housewife, to a family of six children lived in a small two bedroomed house. Showk was one of the first in the Local Community to pass the eleven plus and attended Deane Grammar School. He was inspired by one teacher at the school to go onto study Chemistry at Sheffield University and became a Teacher of Science & Chemistry, winning the first ‘teacher of the year’ in 1989. Following several posts of responsibility in Sheffield, Showk went on to become Principal of Djanogly City Academy in Nottingham. He was asked to take forward the first Academy in Bolton in January 2009, coming home was a decision of the heart and so, Principal of ESSA Academy.

Two TES awards in two years 2010 & 2011 for the Academy.

After just 18 months after taking over the failing predecessor school, June 2011 saw the first full section 5 OFSTED inspection of Essa Academy; receiving an Outstanding judgement for Leadership & Management together with a Good in all other categories.

Awarded the Learning Without Frontiers Special Achievement Award in 2012.

Adrian Burden

Adrian began at MMU in 2002 and has been teaching and researching in sport and exercise science for over 20 years. He is currently a Principal Lecturer in Biomechanics and is the Learning and Teaching Co-ordinator in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at MMU Cheshire. This year, the Department’s distance learning BSc in Exercise and Sport Science started to be delivered primarily through the iPad, and Adrian has been heavily involved in this development alongside colleagues Damian Keil and Adam Palin.

Damian Keil

Damian is the Programme Leader for the UK's leading distance learning Sport Science degree delivered by Manchester Metropolitan University. Students from all over the world are attracted to this cutting-edge degree programme where units are now delivered in eBook form via iPads given to students. After getting his first iPad 18 months ago, he quickly realised how it could enhance the learning experience of his students. Working alongside Adam Palin and Adrian Burden, the three have managed to transform the future of Sport Science distance learning.

Adam Palin

Adam has a keen interest in online digital technology and graduated with a Multimedia Computing degree from MMU in 2006. Since then he has worked for a number of educational institutions as both a web developer and e-learning facilitator, and started his role with MMU in February 2011 . He is currently working alongside Adrian Burden and Damian Keil within the Department of Exercise & Sport Science, and has helped develop what are thought to be the country’s first custom-made distance learning eBooks for the subject. The eBooks contain a blend of text, images, interactive tasks, video lectures and videos from external sources such as the Khan Academy. Links are also provided to the University’s virtual learning environment to enable students to complete both formative and summative assessments.

David Baugh

David Baugh is a primary trained teacher with classroom experience or teaching students aged 5 – 18. Local Authority Advisor for Denbighshire where he had responsibility for all aspects of ICT and eLearning in 65 schools.

He is an independent trainer, author and adviser of ICT, working for a wide range of organisations. He has been an Apple Distinguished Educator for 12 years and is an Apple Professional Development Consultant. David works with schools and organisations that want to deploy and integrate iOS devices and Apple technology into learning.

@David_Baugh

Julian Coultas

Julian works as a freelance Apple Distinguished Educator and Apple Mentor.

He has over 20 years experience of working with Apple technology in education, including five years with Apple UK. Julian has a Creative Arts background, but now works across all curriculum areas and sectors. He runs Apple based professional development workshops for teachers and education leaders.

He has supported many schools with their adoption of iPods and iPads. Whilst based in the Peak District, he works nationally and internationally. You can find out more about his activities on his blog at www.digitalroadtrip.tumblr.com.

James Betts

James has worked in education software for over 10 years after graduating with a BSc in Business Computing, and comes from a family of teachers where education is frequently debated over the dinner table! In recent years he has worked for Kudlian Software who specialise in Animation and Presentation software for both desktop and iOS devices. He became Managing Director of Kudlian two years ago. James is passionate about the use of technology in schools, and how mobile devices can help to facilitate the ever changing curriculum.

John Friend

John Friend is the founder of Apps in My Pocket. Their award-winning, five-star rated app, PocketPhonics, has been the best-selling phonics app in the UK for the last four years. John has had extensive careers in software development and marketing. Highlights include delivering the first website in the UK offering "online banking" functionality, and collecting the Guardian & Money Observer online finance award

Earnie Kramer

You have mobile devices. Great! But…now what? Earnie Kramer will share best practices for planning, deploying and managing iPads within an educational setting. With the right preparation and solutions in place to keep devices safe, managed and meaningful in classes, your mobile learning program can be a success!

About Lightspeed Systems

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Catherine-Dobson

Catherine Dobson became head teacher of Fairfield Road Primary in 2001. Fairfield Road is situated on the Tameside / Manchester border and has 320 children on roll. Children come from a mixed catchment area, though the majority come from a white working class background.

Two years ago the school looked into the possibility of using hand held devices in lessons and as a way to extend learning to the home. Since then the use of such devices to enhance learning, especially independent learning, has grown. It is now commonplace to see Ipods and Ipads used throughout the school.

Mike Barnes

Currently head of a Primary School in North West Lancashire. I have been a head teacher for 15 years. It is a 2 form entry school in an area of high deprivation.

After my second Headship I worked for a government technology agency for 5 years. Deciding to put into practice what I had been ‘preaching’ I returned to headship some 5 years ago. My current school is a two form entry school within an area of deprivation. Free school meals averages around 50%.

At school, technology is seen to be at the heart of the school’s development, and both staff and pupils are keen to investigate and develop its potential. The school has gone from ‘Special Measures’ to ‘Good with Outstanding features’ within the space of 3 years.

Twelve months ago we made the decision to do away with IWB and move from a Windows environment to all Apple.

Alan Lloyd

Alan has been part of a successful leadership team that saw the College rated 'outstanding' in their last OFTED inspection and who have been successful in being awarded Teaching School Status 18 months ago.

A graduate of Computing from Manchester University, Alan has been working in Education since graduating in 1981 firstly as a Computing Teacher, Head of Department and then into Senior Leadership. An ex-principal examiner for A-level Computing and an Applefile, Alan has been at the forefront of eLearning throughout his career and has been instrumental in a number of initiatives both within his College and with partner institutions.

Kevin Burden

Kevin was born and educated in Hull before studying history at Lancaster University. He subsequently undertook the PGCE at Loughborough University, before undertaking a part-time Masters degree in the History of Education at the Institute of Education, London University. He is currently undertaking his doctoral thesis at the University of Hull which focuses on the Models of Teaching and Learning with Digital Video in Higher Education.