CORE Education is a not-for-profit educational research and development based organisation with an international reputation for support and promotion of the use of new technologies for learning across all education and training sectors.
Our mission is to push the boundaries of educational possibilities in New Zealand and internationally through innovative, empowering and creative elearning and professional development programmes.
The annual Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development conference, Learning @ School, will run from 25 – 27 February 2009 at the Energy Events Centre in Rotorua. CORE Education is contracted to manage the Ministry of Education-sponsored conference.
Learning@School 09 aims to help you
discover common ground through conversation and discussion with other teachers
be inspired by local teachers and world leading thinkers in the field of education and new technologies
improve your knowledge of and expertise in new technologies by participating in the many workshop sessions on offer
get ideas and strategies for integrating these technologies into the learning experience of your students
hear about policy changes/direction from senior New Zealand Ministry of Education staff
try out the latest technological wares on offer at the trade expo.
Conference focus
The key focus of the conference is to
implement the New Zealand Curriculum/Te Marautanga o Aotearoa through the use of e-learning;
increase capability of teachers and principals to improve students' learning and achievement through e-learning;
strengthen professional learning communities and increased collaboration within and across schools; increase e-learning
leadership and ICT strategic planning capability of principals and teachers;
increase the understanding of the educational contribution of e-learning in school communities.
Programme
More than 300 workshops will be run by leading practitioners from current and past ICT PD clusters. Keynote and spotlight sessions are run by leading national and international presenters.
CORE Education’s annual conference for educators, ULearn, will return to Christchurch in October 2009 after a very successful event in the city in 2008.
Conference manager Gwenny Davis says ULearn09 and its associated pre-conference workshops makes up four days of back-to-back inspiration, education, ideas, strategies and fun, equipping New Zealand educators with all they need to transform their teaching, learning, school or early childhood community.
ULearn was started in 2005 and is run by CORE Education, focusing on professional development, networking, gauging trends, providing information and celebrating best practice in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) education.
ULearn09 (October 7 – 9) will be preceded by workshops on Tuesday, October 6. For more information on the conference, visit www.ulearn.org.nz.
“The ULearn conference may have come and gone but its size and impact on those attending mean that the effects will continue to be felt across the educational community for some time yet.”
Ministry of Education Project Leader, eLearning Capability, Neil Melhuish, shared these comments with his colleagues around the Ministry before sending them to CORE Education as feedback on ULearn08.
The ULearn 08 conference run by CORE Education NZ for teachers is an incredible opportunity for networking, sharing experiences and learning, visiting UK educationalists say.
Richard Millwood, Sarah Jones and Malcolm Moss from sister organisation CORE UK, visited New Zealand to participate in the ULearn 08 conference and other seminars and workshops.
Enterprising people will be at the centre of future global competitiveness. To prepare New Zealand for this future, we need our young people to be enterprising, critical and creative thinkers with a can-do attitude. 'Enterprise' is woven throughout the Vision and Principles of New Zealand’s new Curriculum.
Anne-Marie Kite and Gina Revill, from CORE, spoke to an audience of both Industry and Education at last week’s breakfast seminar regarding an 'Education for Enterprise' pilot project. The scheme concentrated on enterprising thinking and attributes encouraging resilience, responsibility and problem solving in students within a real and authentic context. The project assisted with: • In-school support • Linking business/community and education • Exposing students to real world and purposeful learning
Enterprising attributes include: • Problem solving • Seeing and acting on opportunities • Exploring ideas • Being flexible • Taking managed risks • Persevering • Taking responsibility
For further information about this project and advice on enterprise thinking in your school when implementing the New Zealand curriculum contact Anne-Marie Kite, annemarie.kite@core-ed.net or Gina Revill gina.revill@core-ed.net
Enterprising people will be at the centre of future global competitiveness. To prepare New Zealand for this future, we need our young people to be enterprising, critical and creative thinkers with a can-do attitude. 'Enterprise' is woven throughout the Vision and Principles of New Zealand’s new 
