Ian will be speaking from 10:30 am -11:00 am

More info at: www.theingots.org

Education is full of rhetoric about lifelong learning, re-engineering learning, deep learning, learning how to learn and other tired professional cliches. Ironically, rhetoric about learning and change is no substitute for learning how to make the changes happen.

Open Source technologies are one of the most significant changes taking place on the planet yet the very people trotting out the tired rhetoric are mainly the last people to internalise change for themselves. In this session Ian Lynch argues that before technology can be used as an effective learning tool, learning has to take place to enable change. At one level, understanding of the global context of technological change and its impact on social and political systems and at another the nuts and bolts of how to effect the change. The challenge is to achieve this in an already over-crowded curriculum. Ian tells us how it can be done.

Ian Lynch has extensive experience in education senior management. Responsible for science and technology, he was a member of the team that set up the first City Technology College and later the Specialist Schools programme. As a Registered Inspector he founded IRIS, the professional association for OFSTED accredited RgIs and later a company that won the Midlands Region Small Business of the Year Award and a DTi Smart Award for technological development.  In this session he will describe a sustainable and practical way to make young people independent learners in the brave new world of Web 2.0 technology and to enable their teachers to keep up with them and manage their learning effectively. In this world, individuals will get all their mainstream applications to support learning freely from the internet. There will be no software licenses to pay or manage, no virus software to buy and all their information will be backed up for them. If you are serious about inclusion and bridging the digital divide, come and find out how new QCA accredited qualifications can act as the driving force in making it happen.