EDtalks Symposium forum for thought leadership

EDtalks Symposium forum for thought leadership

CORE Education’s EDtalks Symposium at Te Papa on March 26 will bring together education and business leaders from around New Zealand to focus on the future of education.

CORE Education is a not-for profit organisation that has earned an international reputation through our innovative professional learning programmes and our promotion of technologies for learning across all education and training sectors.

Organiser Jedd Bartlett says the "Thought Leaders for a new decade" symposium is a new initiative developed from CORE Education’s EDtalks online free database of short video interviews with leading educators and thinkers.

“CORE Education aims to develop innovative, empowering, creative and effective learning environments and to push the boundaries of educational possibilities. With this intention, EDtalks was set up in 2008 as our contribution to teacher professional learning. The EDtalks website (www.edtalks.org) has a steadily growing collection of videos featuring New Zealand and International educators talking about learning.

“This year we wanted to extend this initiative to bring teachers, school and business leaders together for a day of short presentations from prominent educators, new media specialists, futurists, technologists, business leaders, researchers and students,” he says.

The 16 speakers include: Media commentator on information access and technological change Paul Reynolds of McGovern Associates; REANNZ Chief Executive Donald Clark; Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) Chief Executive Ernie Newman; Managing Directrix of Mohawk Media and lecturer in Emerging Technologies at Unitec Helen Baxter; and Blair Professor of Music at the University of Otago, Prof John Drummond; along with a selection of enterprising young business people, and innovative educators.

“Delegates will definitely be informed, challenged and motivated by the presenters; and come away with new ideas,” Jedd says.

The event is open to all educators, school leaders and business leaders and is already attracting registrations from as far afield as Dunedin and Auckland

To learn more, or to register visit the symposium website; www.core-ed.net/edtalks-symposium.

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