Why come
This two-day event is designed to equip K-5 educators with inspirational and innovative strategies and approaches for using iPads to enhance learning. and examples of the power of iPads for learning. Whether you’re an experienced user of iPads in the classroom or an iPad newbie, you’ll find sessions that challenge, motivate and provoke new ways of thinking about the capacity for ipads for instruction, assessment and documentation of student thinking and learning.
Registration
Maximum number of participants: 75
Individuals:
Early Bird Registration (Before January 1, 2016): €275
Registration after January 1: €325.
Event details
Hashtag: #cdltiPad
Who is it for
Classroom teachers, school administrators and ICT support teachers and technicians who are already implementing a 1:1 iPad programme in their schools or those who are interested in seeing how a 1:1 programme for primary age children works.
Workshop goals
This two-day event is designed to equip K-5 educators with inspirational and innovative strategies and approaches for using iPads to enhance learning. and examples of the power of iPads for learning. Whether you’re an experienced user of iPads in the classroom or an iPad newbie, you’ll find sessions that challenge, motivate and provoke new ways of thinking about the capacity for ipads for instruction, assessment and documentation of student thinking and learning.
Conference Highlights
Plenary sessions with Warren Apel and Joe Moretti on coding, game design and programming in primary classrooms
In-class visits to see the ISA 1:1 iPad programme in action with K-5 students and teachers
Workshops on digital portfolios, use of iPads with thinking routines, iBeacons in schools libraries, self-assessment with iPads, apps for documenting and tracking student learning and more…
Also – stop in for informal sessions in the iPad café, attend the iPad App Slam or check out the Speed Geeking sessions!
Featured speakers
Warren Apel
Author, Speaker
Warren Apel was the Director of Educational Technology at the International School of Amsterdam and the American Embassy School in New Delhi, India. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator, a Google Certified Innovator, a National Board Certified Teacher and the co-founder of two EdTech startups: Ecoballot and Scholastico. He has presented at conferences such as ISTE, Learning2, Google Summits and Apple Leadership Events. He has worked as lead learner or mentor at four Google Teacher Academies. In 2016, he will head to Tokyo, Japan where he will be the Director of Technology at the American School in Japan.
Joe Moretti
Education consultant
Joe works alongside schools all over the world on the successful implementation and integration of the iPad into their lessons. As a teacher Joe has taught from Primary through to HE and has the practical experience to know ‘what works’ in the teaching space. Joe is much in demand across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa for training days, seminars, keynotes and conferences. There may be over 1,000,000 applications on the app store, however Joe has distilled these down to a short list of easy to use and extremely powerful applications for transforming the teaching and learning experience of any class. Although a music specialist, Joe is currently completing two books, on the new curriculum for coding in education and iBeacons, both are new areas gaining considerable momentum in education. Joe has recently started a doctorate looking at assessing the impact of mobile technology on learning.
Sean Walmsley
iLearning Integrationist
Sean is a Tech Integrationist, however, he prefers “iLearning Integrationist”. iLearning is a learning philosophy that embraces students interests, encourages creativity, self-efficacy, digital citizenship, educational technology and a love of learning. He presents on topics such as iLearning, iPad Workflows, Subject Smashing and becoming Master Builders of our iLearning.