ACEC2014 Call for Papers is Open!

ACEC2014 Call for Papers

The Call for Papers has opened for the 2014 Australian Computers in Education Conference.

All the details, including deadlines and templates are here: acec2014.acce.edu.au/call-for-papers

Or dive in, sign up and submit your session proposal now! acec2014.acce.edu.au/submit

Please help spread the word wide and far.  Refereed Paper submissions need to be in by 1 October 2013.  Other session types have until 1 March 2014.

The conference takes place at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 30 September to 3 October 2014 .

 

 NOW IT'S PERSONAL

Now It's Personal is the theme of ACEC2014 and presenters are being asked to explore one of these three strands.

 

Strand 1: Inspirational Leadership

Inspirational leadership is about empowerment, working with and walking together. It is about performance, not supervision. It is personal, not institutional; inspiring not constraining; liberating, not coercing. It is a culture, not a state. It is transparent, not secretive. People do the right thing because they want to, not because they have to.

 

Strand 2: Innovative Learning

Students have ever-increasing expectations of being able to work, play and learn via cloud-based services and apps across their mobile devices, whenever they want and wherever they may be. Innovative learning is about possibilities. It is limited only by imagination. It is open, free and wide-ranging. It is not constrained by past thinking. It is personal. It is about choice, connection and reflection. It challenges the learner to be responsible, not reliant. To lead, not follow. To create, not copy.

 

Strand 3: Redefining Education

The importance of personal knowledge management and the blurring of the boundaries between formal and informal learning is redefining education. No longer is education constrained by set parameters. It is not limited to time or place. It is free to explore. It offers choices, not constraints. It presents challenges, not solutions. It asks questions.

More information on the conference strands is available on the website.

Testing Simplebooklet

Stumbled across this chrome browser app - simplebooklet - and really just wanted to have a play to see what it was like, and how easy it was to use. Turns out, it's pretty easy. The range of "apps" now available to use on mobile devices, and directly in browsers is pretty astonishing. They're generally cheap too. This is free and spoiled with ads. But for $5 a year you can use it ad free. Interesting huh? Just click in the top right corner to turn the page. [Sorry about the ads...] simplebooklet.com But it's just another tool. What could we use it for? How could students use something like this? What expression does it enable? Simplebooklet suggest it's a great tool for marketers - it's a codeless way of creating flipbooks, sliders and animated digital ads. It took me about 10 minutes to create this. Probably a bit longer to blog about it as I tried to turn my random thoughts into words. But it's a simple iframe, embedded above. What do you think?

Digital Sixth Sense

Ok - so it's a technology marketing video - but still good food for thought.

I wonder, how might this kind of technology impact on education? In some ways it feels like today's classrooms are still just playing catch up with basic tech tools.

This kind of thing is on the horizon, and not really all that far away.

Digital Technologies - a brand new subject

Huzzah! A draft of the Digital Technologies Australian Curriculum has been released.

This is the Scope and Sequence for Foundation to Year 10.
Download it as a PDF

The Digital Technologies subject is divided into two strands

Knowledge and understanding

•  representation of data
•  digital systems
•  interactions and impact

Processes and production skills

•  managing and analysing data
•  using digital systems
•  specification, algorithms and implementation
•  creating and interacting online

Here's a wordle made from the text in that PDF.

The Standout words are Data, Information, Systems, Digital, Algorithms, Problems and Social - not necessarily in that order... but that's what leaps out at me.

ACARA is seeking feedback on the draft until 10 May 2013.

Download the full draft PDF 
Download the feedback survey

But you'll need to register to complete the survey online.

http://consultation.australiancurriculum.edu.au/register

Review the draft. Have a think. Have a say.

ACEC2012 Photo Slideshow

Another Australian Computers in Education Conference has come and gone - here's a flickr slideshow to give a sense of how it went down for 2012 in Perth. #ACEC2012

Check out the website at http://acec2012.acce.edu.au