How does technology help teach, learn and measure wellbeing?

EdTech is paving the way for our educators, allowing for enhanced teaching and learning experiences. Through data captured via technology, we can gain valuable insights into how students are feeling at home and in the classroom, and develop personalised support accordingly.

Watch the replay of the webinar from Wednesday 9 March 2022, for an insightful evening as experts Dianne Giblin, Andrew Smith, Nikki Bonus & Tim Power join us to discuss the role of education technology in addressing critical teaching and learning needs.

In this webinar, our experts will discuss:

  • Your questions
  • How technology can enable and empower educators to better understand how students are truly feeling by simplifying teaching and reporting and reducing workload.
  • How technology enables students to better communicate.
  • How technology can provide better information to educators about their students, especially when transitioning from primary to secondary, into a new year, or to a new teacher.
  • How technology is evolving to build better learner profiles, what the gaps are and how they are being addressed.
  • How technology better provides data to educators for longitudinal and immediate reporting and response.
  • How technology helps bridge inequity gaps.
  • What are the risks? How does technology provide a safe environment for students – both to learn and store with keeping their data safe?

ABOUT OUR EXPERTS

Dianne Giblin has worked in education in both paid and unpaid capacity for the past 32 years.

Di has a passion for education, in particular public education, and the opportunities it affords young people. She has led the ACSSO secretariat since 2011 but has been a significant player in parent activism since 1984 when her eldest child commenced school. She is proud of her four children’s achievements – all successes of public education.

She has held various volunteer roles in the parent movement finishing her P&C career as President of the Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations of NSW.

Di was a founding Director of Public Education Foundation whose board position she held for six years; a founding Director of Primary Ethics Board and also a founding Director of The Parenthood board.

She worked in a paid capacity for the NSW education department in a number of roles across a large area of Sydney. Her roles were all in the area of parent engagement and home-school partnerships including school based community officer, across district Community Development Officer and regional Partnership Officer – all through the Priority Schools Program.

Recognition of her work saw her commended for Meritorious Service to Public Education and Training in 2010. In 2012 Dianne was admitted as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia for her service to public education and the community.

Di’s greatest love is her family but coming a close second is her love of music. Whilst an amateur guitar player she likes to spend downtime with it, her grandchildren and her playing her vinyl albums on the new turntable.

Andrew Smith is CEO of Education Services Australia, a not for profit education technology company owned by all Australian education ministers. ESA develops and deploys national education infrastructure, develops digital education resources and provides technology based services to the
education sector. Andrew has qualifications in education, science and business and brings to the role of CEO extensive experience and expertise in strategic leadership in the education, training and not-for-profit sectors. Having started his career in the classroom, Andrew’s previous roles include Vice President (Engagement) at Swinburne University and CEO of the Australian Council for Private
Education and Training.

Nikki Bonus is an experienced ed-tech founder and CEO of Life Skills Group, harnessing more than 20 years of deeply personal and professional experience in the development and delivery of social-emotional literacy programs for individuals, organizations, and most importantly, teachers and students. Nikki’s work has helped give voice to more than 850 schools, connecting with 20,000 teachers and 500,000 primary school children to build a continuing evidence base of what works to measure, report and implement real improvements in Social Emotional and Physical Literacy for school communities.

Tim Power has co-founded and created some of the world’s largest education communities: the World Education Games, World Maths Day, Mathletics and ClickView. He has also worked collaboratively with the teams at Desmos, Learnosity, Reading Eggs, High Resolves and UNICEF.

Tim is co-founder and CEO of Inquisitive, the education company with a mission to simplify access to quality learning, so teachers enjoy teaching and students learn with purpose and depth. He is also director and mentor to the teams at ClickView and Stile Education.

Tim was the winner of the 2015 Pearcey Foundation Benson Entrepreneur Award and the regional and national winner of the 2015 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Technology category). Tim has a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney.