International Conference - VIASL IFIP WG 3.5 - Informatics & Elemantary Education 2
Valuing individual and shared learning:
the role of ICT
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Valuing individual and shared learning:
the role of ICT
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Key dates:
Deadline for paper submission:
December 15th
2007
Decisions to authors: 9th March 2008
Early bird registration:
18th April 2008
Overview
There are growing calls for ICT to be used to provide learners, of all ages,
with individualised sets of learning opportunities that are well-matched to
their personal needs and aspirations.
These calls for an individualised experience of learning come at the same
time as attention is being drawn to the significance of community and shared
experience to learning trajectories.
This conference will provide an opportunity to explore the tensions and the
possibilities as the education community responds to calls for ICTs to be used
to support individualised learning at the same time as it seeks to create
communities and shared learning opportunities that have a positive impact on
learning trajectories.
In particular, the conference will seek to address the following questions:
- How can ICTs be used to support individualised/personalised learning?
- What are the tensions between the desire to create learning communities
and the drive to individualised learning?
- How can ICTs be used to support effective learning communities and shared
learning opportunities?
- What measures should we use to assess the value and effectiveness of
learning with ICTs?
- How can we use ICTs to promote assessment that is supportive of effective
learning?
The conference will seek to address these questions from the perspective of
elementary education, teacher training and life-long learning.
Conference themes
The conference themes, through which the key questions will be addressed are:
| classroom-based learning |
informal learning |
| learning communities/communities of practice |
personalising learning |
| home-school links |
school-community links |
| tools for learning |
Web-2 technologies and learning |
| teacher education |
the classroom of tomorrow |
| physical space and its impact on learning |
new understandings of schooling |
| Simulation, inquiry learning, problem based learning,
modelling |
learning on-demand |
| life-long learning |
theories and philosophies of learning |
| new literacies |
evaluation and assessment |
| policy and policy making |
change processes |
A call to participation
The conference aims to provide a forum for school and community practitioners,
lecturers and researchers, advisers and policy makers. We also invite doctoral
students, newly qualified teachers and young people to contribute their
perspectives and help shape the debate.
Conference activities
The conference will feature papers, panels, workshops,
focus groups and adversarial debates. Proposals for each of
these session types are invited. All proposals will be refereed; acceptance is
subject to the outcome of the review process.
Further details of these activities and how to submit can be found on the
conference web-site
http://ifip2008praha.cz
Publication
A book of abstracts, including paper abstracts, details of panels, workshops,
focus groups and adversarial debates, will be published and made available to
conference attendees.
All full and short papers, together with the text from the book of abstracts,
will be published on a conference CD-ROM. All conference attendees will receive
a copy.
Selected papers will be published in a special edition of the internationally
refereed journal "Education and Information Technologies" edited by Avril
Loveless.
Important dates
Deadline for paper submission: 15th December
2007
Decisions to authors:
9th March 2008
Early bird registration:
18th April 2008
Conference: 23rd - 27th June 2008