Sugata Mitra

2013 TED Talk Price Winner “The Future of Learning”

 Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in the UK and previously a Visiting Professor at MIT in the US. He is the instigator of the Hole in the Wall (HIW) experiment, where in the year 1999 a computer was embedded within a wall in an Indian slum at Kalkaji, Delhi and children were    allowed  to freely use it:. The experiment aimed at providing that kids could be taught computers very easily without any formal training. Sugata termed this as Minimally Invasive  Education (MIE). The experiment has since been repeated at many places.

Guy Claxton

Author of “The Learning Powered School”

Guy Claxton is a worldwide authority on the development of young people’s learning and creative capacities. He is the author of many books and articles. His bestseller “What’s the Point of  School?” was highly praised by Professor Howard Gardner, Sir Ken Robinson and Carol Dweck. Most recently, The Learning Powered School, published in 2011, shows us what the pioneers have been doing and how Building Learning Power has been transforming their schools. His Building Learning Power approach to creating learning cultures in schools and colleges has influenced youngsters’ lives throughout the world. Guy Claxton holds degrees from Cambridge and Oxford, and is currently Professor of the Learning Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester, UK.

Will Richardson

Author of the bestseller “Why School?”

A parent of two teen-agers, Will Richardson has spent the last dozen years developing an international reputation as a leading thinker and writer about the intersection of social online learning networks and education. He was one of a handful of original education bloggers (willrichardson.com) and his work has appeared in numerous journals, newspapers, and magazines such as Ed Leadership, District Administration, Education Week, The New York Times and English Journal. He is an outspoken advocate for change in schools and classrooms in the context of the diverse new learning opportunities that the Web and other technologies now offer.

Tristian Stobie

Dr Tristian Stobie is Director at Cambridge International Examinations [CIE]. He is responsible for the development of CIE’s education strategy for schools, supporting Cambridge teachers and learners and working in partnership with Ministries engaged in education reform initiatives with Cambridge. Tristian’s career in education has spanned a wide range of international and educational contexts. Starting as a classroom teacher (working in New Zealand, the UK, Lesotho and Austria), he moved into school administration with roles including Vice-Principal [United World College of the Atlantic], and Middle and Secondary Principal [International school of Amsterdam, ACS Egham International School and the International School of Monaco].

Hamish Boyd

A big blackboard on the kitchen wall was a key early career-shaper- as kids we were always drawing. He completed diplomas in landscape and horticulture at Lincoln College before entering the Auckland School of Architecture. After graduation, he joined Jasmax, things were unbelievably well. The people were terrific and he was exposed to a huge range of projects. His satisfaction comes from creating great spaces that uplift and inspire the people who use them and the communities that surround them. Good architecture enables people to flourish within spaces that are relevant to their needs and surprising in their outcomes.

Karen Morrison

Karen Morrison comes with over 20 years of teacher training experience. She has worked as a writer, series editor and trainer for a variety of organizations and publishing companies. She regularly runs training courses in primary Science, Maths, teaching and learning resources, and teacher training and upgrading. She is also extensively published, both individually as well as collaboratively. Her most recent publications include Nelson International Primary Mathematics (Nelson Thornes UK) Level 1-6, Student Book, Workbook and Teacher’s Guide for each level, IGCSE Mathematics (Cambridge University Press) Course book, Teacher CD, Student CD, Core and Extended practice books.

Else Hamayan

Else Hamayan is an independent consultant and Director Emeritus of the Illinois Resource Center in Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA. Dr. Hamayan was born and raised in Lebanon, where she learned English (among other languages) as a foreign language. She taught English to Arabic-speaking adolescents. She graduated with a Ph.D in psycholinguistics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she conducted research in Canadian Immersion programs. Subsequently, she joined the Illinois Resource Center, a professional development center for teachers of linguistically and culturally diverse students. She was director of that center from 1982 through 2006, when she moved to Argentina, where she currently resides.

 Claudia Ferradas

Claudia is an experienced presenter and ELT author who has travelled the world as a teacher educator. She often works as a consultant for the British Council. She has run training sessions and participated in conferences in South America, the Caribbean, the USA, Europe and South East Asia. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies at the University of Nottingham.

Raúl Molteni

Raúl Molteni is an engineer, founder and director of Molteni Consulting Group. He has worked with public and private manufacturing and service companies, to help them implement best management, improvement and innovation practices. Among these companies we can mention: The Coca-Cola Company, Kraft Foods, LAN Airlines, Molinos Río de la Plata and Telefónica Group. He works in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru and Chile. Prior to founding Molteni Consulting Group he was Total Quality Excellence Coordinator in Ford Motor Argentina and Human Resources Manager for the Renault Group.

Sarah Thomas

Sarah is a Managing Editor at Collins Learning UK, with more than five years publishing experience and over three hundred books to her name. Sarah is at the heart of international and UK primary educational publishing. Sarah’s weekly visits to schools in the UK ensure Collins Learning publishing is up to date, motivating and appropriate. Sarah has also spent time teaching English to Adults and Young Learners in South America and has a keen interest in international education, especially in this region.

Andrea Pelliccia

Andrea Pelliccia is an Educational ICT Specialist (Master in Tecnologías Aplicadas a la Educación, Instituto Universitario de Posgrado (IUP)of Spain, Fundación Carolina Scholarship Award 2012). After graduating with honours in Computer Science at Universidad de Belgrano, she worked as a Systems and DB Analyst in different industries while she started teaching at UB, School of Information Systems.

Inés Stefani

Inés Stefani is a Uruguayan teacher who graduated from “Magisterio” in 1980 and since then has taught at bilingual schools. In 1989 she graduated as a Reading Recovery teacher in New Zealand. She has worked and studied for 4 years in that country. In 2002 she completed a Bachelors of Education in Teaching, at the University of Auckland in New Zealand as well as a Certificate in School Middle Management, at UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand. From 2003 up to 2007, Inés has been doing consultancy work, in the field of literacy acquisition, nationally and internationally, especially in Brazil and Argentina. Presently, she is the Head of School at Woodlands School, in Montevideo. She has just completed her Master´s Degree through the University of Auckland.

Marcela Stewart de Tovo

MA in International School Management,Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. UK. Founder and co-Head of Holy Trinity College, Mar del Plata, Argentina.

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Sugata Mitra: “The Future of Learning”

Guy Claxton “Building Learning Power: The Vision and the Evidence”

Will Richardson “Learning in a Networked World: For Our Students and For Ourselves”

Hamish Boyd “Designing Schools from the Inside Out”

Guy Claxton“BLP in theClassroom: How Are We Asking Our Teachers to Be Different?”

Will Richardson “Exploring New Literacies for a World of Networked, Self-Directed Learners and Makers”

Will Richardson “From “Old School” to “Bold School”: Making the Jump from Traditional to Modern Learning” 

Claudia Ferradas “Developing Intercultural Competence in the English Class”

Sugata Mitra “Schools in the Cloud”

Guy Claxton “Expansive Education: The Quiet Revolution Sweeping the Planet”

Tristian Stobie “Leadership that supports Learning”

2013 ESSARP International Conference Programme