Brighton speakers

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

Friday 17th September 2010 • Hilton Brighton Metropole
Speaker biographies

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




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!
  

Tim Rylands

Tim Rylands has been described as an extremely gifted and inspirational teacher, with a love of the creative potential of technology and an excellent rapport with his pupils.

Tim has received a vast amount of press coverage around the world for his innovative use of ICT and is now much in demand for seminars, training days and conferences around the world, presenting the results of his work in an inspiring, practical and often humorous way. His imaginative and encouraging style of teaching allows children to express their creativity and make significant gains in attainment.

With over 20 years of experience in schools from the West Country to West Africa, he has brought computer games into the classroom, using the Myst series to inspire children's creative confidence in many areas of such as creative writing, speaking and listening, music and art.
  


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/).
  

Brian Vidler

Brian Vidler has been involved in developing ICT in schools since 1981, balancing classroom teaching and school leadership with running professional development courses, staff training and conferences. With experience in Independent, Church Primary and Middle Schools as well as non-maintained special education, he is now an unattached Leading ICT Teacher in Essex. This includes supporting schools in the development of the County learning platform (e-Folio) and other cache and web-based resources such as Espresso, in addition to some part-time teaching.

With a particular interest in animation and film as well as exploiting the use of the interactive whiteboard in the classroom, his current projects can be found at  www.newcourt.net