Provisional programme

08.30-09.45

09.45-11.00

• Mike Trucano, World Bank, Washington, USA: “People and technology in world class education systems”

11.00-11.30

11.30-13.00

Plenary session 2 – Inspiring young people: the challenges of Maths, Science and Technology – AUDITORIUM MANTEGNA – Floor -2

• Andrea Gavosto, Director, Agnelli Foundation, Italy
• Luigi Berlinguer, Chair, Inter-ministerial Working Group for Scientific Culture Dissemination, and Italian Minister of Education 1996-2000
• Maruja Gutierrez-Diaz - European Commission
• Introducing the e-skills portal – Alexa Joyce, European Schoolnet

13.00-14.00

Lunch – HOTEL Restaurant PARNASO (Floor -1)

14.00-16.00

Parallel workshops session 1 – Policy, practice and content: trends and issues

• The Portuguese Technological Plan and the Magallean netbooks for children initiative, Teresa Evaristo, Ministry of Education, Portugal
  
• Peer learning for policy-makers, school leaders and inspectors, Bert Jaap van Oel, Inspectorate of Education, The Netherlands, and P2V project partners
  
• Video-conferencing for language learning in primary schools, Nathalie Terrades, Ministry of Education, France
  
• ICT in primary schools – news from the STEPS project, Roger Blamire, European Schoolnet

• Electronic games in schools project update: early results, Patricia Wastiau , European Schoolnet
  
• Creative learning Lab and Games atelier, Keimpe de Heer, Waag Society, The Netherlands
  
• Learning with games in Trentino Alto Adige, IPRASE, Italy *
  
• Mobile learning and Web 2.0 experiences with Danish children, John Klesner, teacher and ICT adviser, Søndervangskolen Hammel, Denmark

• An introduction to the MELT project and the MELT LRE portal, Frans Van Assche, European Schoolnet
  
• Connecting to the LRE federation, David Massart, European Schoolnet
  
• Searching the LRE from within a national school portal, Mike O'Byrne, National Centre for Technology in Education, Ireland
  
• Social tagging of LRE resources in the MELT project, Riina Vuorikari, European Schoolnet
  
• Working with LRE Associate Partners, Jim Ayre, Multimedia Ventures
  
• Promethean Planet and the LRE, Mark Robinson, Promethean

16.00-16.30

Networking break: exhibition, eLearning Awards display

16.30-16.45

Presentation of the European year of creativity and innovation – AUDITORIUM MANTEGNA – Floor -2

• Maruja Gutierrez-Diaz - European Commission

• The selection process and the types of prizes
• Introducing the Awards partners
• Presentation of Awards

18.30-19.30

20.00

09.00-11.00

Parallel workshops session 2 – Setting the future agenda

1. Digital learning resources: improving the supply, flow and uptake of content – ROOM SPACE 3 A – Floor -2
   Chair: Jan de Craemer, Ministry of Education, Belgium Flemish Community

• Aims of the group, short term actions
• Experiences with the learning resources
• Improving the supply
• Exchange between learning resource repositories
• Discussion

2. Interactive whiteboards : issues and options
   Chair: Jerome Morrissey, National Centre for Technology in Education, Ireland

• Terms of reference and activities of the IWB working group
• Case study on IWB use - Francesca Panzica - teacher from Italy
• Case study on use of alternative technologies Declan Donnelly - teacher from   Ireland
• Question and answer session
• Roundtable discussion with IWB vendors – moderated discussion to include topics such as content standards and interoperability issues, pedagogical influences of IWBs and value for money considerations
• Discussion

3. Digital skills: developing teachers’ and learners’ ICT competence
   Chair: Giovanni Biondi, Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell’Autonomia Scolastica, Italy

• A comparative study on initial teacher training in ICT, Ann Britt Enochsson, OECD, Paris
• US approaches to teacher education in ICT, Anne Todd Leftwitch, Indiana University, USA
• ICT Competency Standards for Teachers, Tarek Shawki, Director, Unesco office in Cairo
• The European Pedagogical ICT licence, Oyvind Brogger, UNI-C, Denmark

4. Linking national and regional portals – ROOM SPACE C+D – Floor -2
   Chair: Vaino Brazdeikis, Centre of Information Technologies of Education, Lithuania

• From formal to informal learning: punto.edu and FOR , Margherita Di Stasio and Elena Mosa, Italy
• The Austrian education portal, Carlo Trugenberger
• The Danish educational portal, Per Thorbøll, UNI-C, Denmark
• Switzerland ’s portal
• Development plans
• Results of the national portals survey
• Discussion

11.00-11.30

11.30-13.00

Plenary session 4: Looking forward - AUDITORIUM MANTEGNA – Floor - 2

• Report from workshops
  • Workshop chairs

• Meeting the challenge of the future, Panel session Chair: Jim Ayre, Multimedia Ventures
  • Catherine Gabay, IT adviser to Xavier Darcos, Education Minister, France
  • Andrea Gavosto, Director, Agnelli Foundation, Italy
  • Elisabetta Mughini, Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell’Autonomia Scolastica
  • Industry representatives
    
• Closing remarks
  • Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell’Autonomia Scolastica
  • Giovanni Biondi, Chair, European Schoolnet Steering Committee
  • Marc Durando, Executive Director, European Schoolnet

13.00-14.00

After-
noon

• STEPS project Advisory Group