Naace 25: A Visioning Conference for Members 17 May 2008

This visioning conference was intended to address the key issues for both the Association and its professional membership in the rapidly changing 21st century world of education and ICT. The belief, passion and ambition of Naace Members has made the Association a key influence on education in the UK today. The conference enabled you as a Member to shape the future direction of Naace as it begins its next 25 years.

Date and venue

17 May 2008 Harrow Teachers' Centre London HA3 5PQ

Programme

10:00 Coffee and Registration

10:15 Welcome: A vision for Naace - Gareth Davies, Chair of Naace Board of Management

Naace has to change as the world has changed. The concept of a 'Flat World' introduced by Thomas Friedman in his 2005 book, 'The World is Flat" is affecting global structures and challenging the ways of doing things that saw us through the 20th century. These changes are stark for Naace, whose membership consists of many early adopters and innovators in the very technology that is causing this change. In introducing the event, not only will the reasons for change be given, but the notion of eight "generatives" that provide uncopyable values and therefore stability when facing the challenge of the future.

10:30 Naace as a community of practice - Roger Broadie, Board Member

A proposal will be put to the meeting that Naace should immediately establish a 'College of ICT-in-Education Professionals'. This is conceived as  a way of providing recognition and reward for members who have demonstrated commitment to developing the whole community of practice, through their personal work.

10:45 Discussion 1

11:00 Naace as an innovative community - Leon Cych, Naace Member

The vast majority of the teaching force still do not use web 2.0 and distributed resources on the internet. What are the barriers to them doing this at the present time? The speaker will argue that educators are working within an outmoded system of institutional pedagogies based on and shifting sands of rapid reforms which has left everyone punch drunk at the scale and speed of tweaking the system. His thesis is that there needs to be a rapid overhaul of professional development based on action research and communities of practice within the teaching community with new roles and practices based more on the models used in current business practice rather than an outmoded curriculum. He will maintain that Naace should play a key role in changing the landscape.

11:15 Naace as an influencer of policy - Niel McLean, Becta and Naace Member

11:30 Discussion 2

11:45 Naace's role in school's professional development - Tim Tarrant, TDA and Naace Member

There are many places that educators can get subject specific professional development, whether through their employer, or through personal commitment and effort and most subject association's see this as a major part of their remit. The speaker will suggest that if Naace sees itself as an ASE or DATA, offering a similar range of services to its members, and following a traditional 'subject association' route then it is likely to be disappointed. He will argue that Naace is different to other subject associations and explain the reasons why.

12:00 Naace and the UK Educational ICT Industry - Barry Taylor, Director of Educational Consultancy, RM and Naace Member

What are the the 'big things' happening in the educational ICT market today? How can Naace, and 'partnership' with Naace bring value to these? The speaker will provide his company's take on these issues and offer some challenges to the association and its membership.

12:15 Discussion 3

12:30 EGM

12:45 Lunch

13:30 Close

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