Education Leaders Forum 2008: Programme

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FORUM 2008

NB: Programme is subject to additions and amendments

21 October

3pm+

Registration opens
Explore Terrace Downs - R&R

6.00pm - 8.00pm

High Country Barbeque and networking

22 October - FORUM DAY 1: Valuing Educators-Revaluing Learning

6am+

Early Bird golf or Rakaia Gorge walk

7am - 8.30am

Breakfast

9.00am

9.10am

9.50am

Forum Opening

The Parallel Bang- Education Shockwaves, - Dr Jack Bacon, Futurist and Author

Knowledge Café David Gurteen, Gurteen Knowledge

10.30am

Networking break

10.50am

11.25am

12.15pm

Panel: Valuing Educators-The Finnish Experience, Bruce Ritchie, Massey High, Frances Nelson, NZEI

Knowledge Café: ReValuing Educators, David Gurteen, Gurteen Knowledge

Commentary: Prof. Roger Bowden, Hon Margaret Austin

12.30 pm

Networking Lunch

1.30pm

1.50pm

2.30pm

Starters: Cognition Ignition: A musical introduction, Heather Libeau-Dow,

Panel: Are we obsessed with qualifications?
How employers view knowledge, skills, goals and attitudes.

Knowledge Cafe: ReValuing Learning at all Levels

Open Forum

3.10pm

Networking Break

3.30pm

Concurrent Workshops:

Web 2.0: Making Knowledge Work, Tim Barrable, MoD

Strengthening a Knowledge Sharing Culture, David Gurteen, Gurteen Knowledge

Music and 21st Century Learning, Heather Libeau-Dow

Unlocking the Creative Brain- exploring some of the cognitive science about the learning process, Dr Jack Bacon, Futurist and Author

5.30pm

Close of Day 1

7.00pm

Explore the outdoors or relax in the hot spas

Pre Dinner Drinks

7.30pm

FORUM DINNER

Music:
Kiwioke

23 October - FORUM DAY 2: New Possibilities - Now Imperatives

6.30am

Early Bird golf or Rakaia walk

7.am - 8.30am

Breakfast - Food for thought and action, Dr Rodney Ford, The Food Doctor

8.30am

Killer Apps for the Green Global Village, Dr Jack Bacon, Futurist and Author

9.10am-

9.45am

Theme setting: New Possibilities, Dr Stuart Middleton

Knowledge Café: New Possibilities, David Gurteen, Gurteen Knowledge

10.30am

Networking break

10.50am -12.30pm

Concurrent Workshops-Chalets:

Implications of Killer Apps for the Green Global Village, Dr Jack Bacon, Futurist and Author

Getting the Learning Broadbandwaggon up to Speed, Derek Wenmoth, Core Education

Web 2.0: Making Knowledge Work Facilitator, Tim Barrable, MoD

Strengthening a Knowledge Sharing Culture, David Gurteen, Gurteen Knowledge

12.30pm

Networking Lunch

1.30pm

Leading Teams of Professionals: Balancing leadership with empowering people, Graham Dockrill, Hairy Lemon

Visions and strategies

Open Forum: Now Imperatives

2.15pm

3.15pm

4.00pm

FORUM ENDS

A big thank you to all our supporters who have made ELF 2008 possible:

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