Birmingham speakers

Friday 03 September 2010
The ICT for Education Conference 2010: Birmingham

Friday 2nd July 2010 • Birmingham Science Museum
Speaker biographies

Below are the details of our speakers at the ICT for Education Conference 2010 in Birmingham.




Eamonn Duffy

Formerly the Head of Education at St Johns C.H.E, the largest residential community home school in Birmingham, and Head of Learning Support at Frankley, Eamonn Duffy currently works for the ’Oaks Collegiate’ network of nine Birmingham secondary schools, co-ordinating and monitoring the placement of pupils within an alternative setting, often to avoid the possibility of exclusion from their named school. He will be speaking at the ICT for Education Conference in Birmingham about new ways of monitoring and safeguarding pupils and how ICT plays a key role.

Alongside this work, Eamonn carries out research and delivers training on the uses of ICT, both in and out of the classroom, to promote positive behaviour. The effective use of ICT in the classroom can ensure the engagement of pupils who have previously displayed negative behaviour and improve learning and teaching for all.
  


Ian Glasscock

Games for Life is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company established in 2008 by parents who have experience of attention difficulties. Ian Glasscock, a M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience and his partner, a qualified teacher researched a NASA inspired technology that non-invasively monitors the electricalactivity of the brain The system is called Play Attention which utilises educational computer games which are literally controlled by children’s attention ,feeding back to a PC and hence training the brain.
 
Demonstration www.gamesforlife.co.uk

The University of Herts national release from the pioneering Play Attention Herts Schools trial that showed a significant reduction in one of the core symptoms of ADHD in 10-weeks!
  


Daniel Locke-Wheaton

Daniel has been Assistant Head Teacher responsible for eLearning at one of the largest schools in the UK since September 2007. In this time, Great Barr has gone from a school with little ICT to a leading practice within 18 months. This has included building one of the largest Virtual Learning Environments, hosting prestigious visits from Microsoft, speaking on BETT stands and also receiving the ICT mark.

His current work tackles the issues of transition through the implementation of new generation gaming platforms to bridging the gap between primary and secondary phases.

Daniel will present Great Barr's story and share some of their more innovative practices, including their 'Big school' case study and how popular gaming technologies are being used to allay primary leavers' fears and fight the year 6-7 'dip' in academic and social success.
  


Dr Peter Twining

Peter Twining is the Director of Vital, the DCSF funded ICT CPD Programme (www.vital.ac.uk). He was a primary school teacher before moving into Initial Teacher Education and then to the Open University where he has been Associate Dean Research and Knowledge Transfer within the Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology and the Head of the Department of Education.

His passion is developing education systems fit for the 21st Century. In 2002 he set up the Schome Initiative and subsequently directed the Schome Park Programme, which used virtual worlds to explore potential visions of education (www.schome.ac.uk/).