CCEF3 2024

The day's theme takes a deep dive into history and the important role it plays in shaping our perceptions and influencing our future actions. As the volume of information available to each us increase exponentially each day, being able to make sense of the information we are consuming is an essential skill.

Educational Theme : Critical Thinking

The rise of social media has highlighted the importance of the skill of being able to critically analyze information. With more information available to us than ever before, it is important that we are able to help our young learners make sense of this all. Critical thinking thus needs to be woven into the very fabric of education. In this way, learners will be able to acquire this essential skill.

The panel discussion on this day will focus on the concept of corporate governance and flow into how we can borrow these principles for the application.

Globalization has brought us closer together and the sense of ubuntu that was once so easy in the village setting seems more difficult than ever to achieve. The day focuses on our rapidly expanding global village and the implications this has for learning.

At the heart of all we do as teachers are our students. Each one unique and individual. Our application is on the verge of being able to offer fully differentiated learning on a per student basis. It becomes important to understand how we leverage diversity and adapt knowledge acquisition strategies to achieve better learning outcomes.

Educational Theme : Diversity and Personalized Learning
Globalization has physically brought us closer together but in many ways it has also driven us further apart. Our young learners are going to have to understand how to successfully navigate an increasingly culturally diverse society. It falls to teachers to create an environment that shows how to do this by example. Managing diversity in the classroom will become a growing challenge for teachers all over the world. Furthermore, preparing students to apply knowledge in a diverse world with often divergent views and opinions will be a new hurdle for teachers to overcome.

The panel discussion on this day will discuss the growing "transactionalisation" of our communities and how education perhaps feeds this process. This will be an edgy and often time controversial vivisection of the current state of our global society.

The future is where we are headed regardless of how well prepared we are or otherwise. The last day is all about creativity and how we will handle the challenges that we will surely face as we head into what is ostensibly an unknowable future.

Educational Theme : Technology and the classroom
The gains we are making in I.C.T are staggering and far out pace our own ability to understand how to take advantage of them let alone their eventual impact on our societies. There are vast implication for teachers in the classroom today and our learners in their future lives. Understanding the role that I.C.T will have in the classroom will be crucial in ensuring that it is impactful in a positive way.

The panel discussion on this day will focus on our learners and what it is exactly that we are preparing them for. While this is not an easy discussion and consensus perhaps unobtainable, it is still one that needs to be had for the sake of the learnings it will provide.

Before deciding on which features need to be included in the final application, a system charter will be developed based on the conference results. This will be a set of guiding principles that will govern how data is managed on the system with a view to ensuring 100% transparency. Essentially this document will be a combination of SLAs and KPIs that will apply to the final application.

Application scoping is the process of determining what the application needs to be able to do in order to meet learning needs as identified throughout the conference. This will be left to a smaller team of delegates who will work in groups to summarise conference content into actionable steps. If you are interested in joining please indicate this at the time you apply.