AAIBS 2009 Conference Notes

The blog posts below dated April 20 are my responses to some of the sessions I attended at the Association of Australasian International Baccalaureate Schools Conference, held at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, South Australia over April 17 to 19th. For a while now I’ve found that making notes in sessions as a kind of draft [...]

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Innovation for Fun and Profit

This was a keynote given to the AAIBS Conference in Adelaide by Marty Gauvin. Marty is a technology entrepreneur who focused on innovation. He began by talking about his own school experiences at St Peters College in Adelaide. He was asked to advice the Curriculum Committee at the school when was still at school, which [...]

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Creative Ingenuity – Core competencies of the 21st Century

This was the opening keynote on day 2 of the AAIBS Conference in Adelaide, 2009, given by Dale Spender I came in a little late on this session (blame fine South Australian wine) and Dale Spender was showing a video on 21st Century Learning; ‘I  blog but 78% of my teachers don’t, I want to [...]

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The Future of the Mind – Martin Westwell

This presentation was given to the AAIBS 2009 Conference by Martin Westwell Science21 (Adelaide) Westwell argued that it was not simply about evidence based practice; it was more about evidence informed practice and pedagogy; otherwise we’d head towards a ‘one size fits all’ policy, which isn’t the direction we want. He begin with the characteristics, skills, [...]

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Human Ingenuity: An Overview of IB Thinking

This presentation from the AAIB 2009 Conference was from Malcolm Nicolson – Head of MYP (Cardiff) He talked about the 1986 split into IB and IGSCE? and the history of the IB and how the various sections had developed individually and how the different programs talked about inspiration and ingenuity. He acknowledged that the IB [...]

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Human Ingenuity – Pedagogy for the 21st Century

I’m in Adelaide this weekend at the AAIBS (IB) 2009 Conference with the ambitious agenda of ‘Human ingenuity; Pedagogy for the 21st Century. But it’s begun well and I’ll add some more details notes and responses to the sessions when I find a powerpoint and a hotel that doesn’t charge $55 for internet access. The [...]

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