Luc Barthelet
Executive Director, Wolfram|Alpha
Games, Competitions, and New Modalities for Learning
Executive Director Luc Barthelet joined Wolfram|Alpha in 2011 to lead the company's strategic business development. In 1988, his first software startup was acquired by Electronic Arts (EA). He went on to work at EA for 20 years, first leading the development of Paint products, and was responsible for leading product development for titles such as The Sims, SimCity 3000, and The Sims Online. In late 2010, Barthelet's online virtual gaming community TirNua was acquired by RockYou. Barthelet is a long-time expert user of Wolfram Mathematica, the core technology that powers Wolfram|Alpha, and is the creator and administrator of Mathematica-users.org. He has been collaborating closely with Wolfram Research for nearly 20 years.
Agneau Belanyek
Principal Examiner, OCR GCE and GCSE Computing
Computer Science, Math, and ICT—Where Does Programming Fit?
Agneau Belanyek has been an examiner and specification developer, working with OCR since 2001. He contributed to the specification for A-Level Computing, focusing on improving the reliability of the assessment of candidates' initial programming skills. He played a key role in making the case for, and developing, OCR's pioneering qualifications in computing such as the GCSE. He holds an MS in computer science and qualified as a teacher of secondary math. After teaching mathematics and computing at GCSE and A-Level for 20 years, he is currently taking a break from teaching to complete a PhD in computer science at the University of Liverpool.
Sue Black
Founder, The <goto> foundation
Debate: Society's Changing Needs for Math
Dr. Sue Black is an award-winning British computer scientist. She is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at University College London, UK. Sue sits on the council for the British Computer Society and the UK Foreign Secretary's group on freedom of expression. Keen to champion women in computing, Sue set up the BCSWomen online network in 2001 and has recently become a strategic advisor for ACM-W. Because she is passionate about computer science and its benefit to individuals, organizations, and the economy, Sue has recently set up a non-profit organization called The <goto> foundation to promote computing to the public. She has been instrumental in championing awareness of and support for Bletchley Park and has recently become a trustee there.
Tom Button
Learning Technologies Specialist, MEI
Assessment and CBM
Tom Button works for mathematics in education and industry as the Student Support Manager for the Further Mathematics Support Programme (an MEI program that seeks to increase the uptake of A-level further mathematics) and as Learning Technologies Specialist for MEI. In this latter role he has developed a new A-level further mathematics unit, Further Pure with Technology, in which students are expected to have access to software for teaching, learning, and assessment.
Prior to this, he taught mathematics for 10 years in sixth-form colleges before working for MEI on the Further Mathematics Network and as the mathematics specialist at the National STEM Centre in York. He has a strong interest in the use of computers and other digital technologies in the teaching and learning of mathematics, especially at A level, and has written software and delivered many professional development courses for teachers on this. Tom's blog is Digital Technologies for Learning Mathematics.
Alison Clark-Wilson
Trustee, The Mathematical Association
Experience: Using Technology In the Classroom
Alison is formerly the Head of Research, Development and Consultancy and the Programme Coordinator for the MA (Mathematics Education) at The Mathematics Centre, University of Chichester. Alison's research and scholarly activity focuses on all areas of mathematics teachers' professional development, often, but not exclusively involving technological tools. She is the acting chair of the Mathematical Association's Professional Development Committee. Alison has directed a number of research projects, which include the TI-Nspire Navigator European evaluation project for Texas Instruments and the three-year EU Comenius funded project EdUmatics. EdUmatics has involved 20 European partners in the development of a multilingual professional development resource for secondary mathematics teachers' uses of technology in their teaching. Alison is about to embark on sabbatical visits to the University of Melbourne and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. She is currently editing an academic text for Springer, The Mathematics Teacher in the Digital Era, with Ornella Robutti and Nathalie Sinclair, which is due for publication in summer 2013.
Karim Derrick
CTO, Sherston Software Ltd
Assessment and CBM
Karim Derrick, a former Secondary Maths Curriculum Manager and online math education community developer, has been a key member of Sherston and TAG Development's development and creative team for the past 12 years with the responsibility for driving all development across the group's onshore and offshore development teams. As CTO, Karim has represented Sherston and TAG at international conferences and on industry technical working groups and has been involved in all of Sherston's high-stakes assessment development projects. As an ePortfolio and evidence-based assessment advocate, he has created and developed the Sherston MAPs assessment system and has been exploring the use of Adaptive Comparative Judgement as an alternative to marking with assessment agencies around the world.
Mike Ellicock
Chief Executive, National Numeracy
Debate: Society's Changing Needs for Math
Mike is the Chief Executive of National Numeracy, a new UK-wide and all-age charity that launched in March. He was previously the Managing Director of Numicon, an innovative math teaching approach now used in over 8,000 schools, until its sale to Oxford University Press in 2010. He was an ex-international sportsman and a former Parachute Regiment officer before moving into business. He gained an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and was a Global Relationship Manager for HSBC Corporate Bank before joining Numicon in 2008. Having chaired the National Numeracy Steering Group while supporting Oxford University Press post-acquisition, he is the inaugural Chief Executive now that the concept has become a reality.
Jo Evershed
Director, IndexMatch Ltd
STEM Skills for University and Industry
Jo Evershed is the director of IndexMatch, a financial modeling education program designed to bridge the gap between formal mathematical education and the practical requirements of industry. She has trained people at all levels from recent graduates to senior analysts at FTSE 100 companies. Her particular area of interest is evidence-based approaches to math and science education, which combines learning from a 10-year career in the city together with a more recent degree in psychology from UCL.
Martin Hadley
Wolfram
State-of-the-Art Technology for CBM
Martin Hadley is a member of the Technical Communications and Strategy Group at Wolfram Research, providing technical demos of Wolfram technologies across a number of disciplines—from graph theory and big data to statistics and image processing. In addition to giving technical presentations, Martin provides a range of bespoke training courses for both new and advanced Mathematica users.
Nick Hodges
CTO, Cauldron
Games, Competitions, and New Modalities for Learning
Nick recently co-founded his own company making educational software, building on his previous experience in video games to create meaningful, engaging, educational experiences. Nick's background is in video games, building smartphone and tablet versions of some of the most popular console franchises, such as Call of Duty, Lara Croft (Tomb Raider), Biohazard, and Metal Gear Solid. Before that, he spent two years teaching English in Japan.
Kjetil Idås
Senior Advisor, Norwegian Center for ITC in Education
Experience: Using Technology In the Classroom
Kjetil is a math teacher at Horten Further Education College, a Norwegian national demonstration school for the use of IT in education, and a Senior Adviser at the Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education, where they are launching a national virtual Math School. During the last five years his focus has been on using technology to raise math grades based on J.Hattie(2009) and E. Dale(1958) findings. Kjetil regularly speaks about his teaching techniques' results in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the US.
Josef Karthauser
Seasoned technologist and innovator, Dr Dots
Games, Competitions, and New Modalities for Learning
Dr. Josef Karthauser, with a degree in theoretical physics, is a computer technologist and co-founder of Dr Dots. He started dabbling with computer software and hardware when he was a small boy, and rapidly developed an active interest in the possible applications of technology. Joe became an early pioneer in the delivery of internet services, having set up one of the first ISPs in the UK. He has taken leading roles in the development of computer games, interactive 3D worlds, and next-generation scene rendering engines.
Joe has recently turned his attention to the use of technology in the education sector, and has joined forces with Dr. Rob MacDuff, an innovative education visionary in math and science, with a new approach to math instruction: Cognitive Instruction in Modeling Mathematics (CIMM). Together they are reinventing how mobile devices can be used to not only teach STEM subjects, but to teach kids how to acquire that content knowledge for themselves.
They believe that their combined perspectives will revolutionize the landscape of educational software as it teaches thinking and reasoning, the true pillars of understanding.
Benjamin Koo
Professor of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University
Future CBM Deployments
Dr. Benjamin Koo is a professor of industrial engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing. His research agenda models design teams as learning systems. Recently, he and his students developed a team-based learning program, namely, eXtreme Learning Process (XLP), in which teams of students learn through an intensive design challenge. The learning outcomes of XLP demonstrate that students can learn faster and better in a team-based environment, while adopting technologies at a surprising speed. A critical element of XLP is the adoption of Information and Computational Technologies (ICT). Dr. Koo's talk will present on how to effectively lead students to adopt ICT tools in educational contexts.
Thomas Mawora
Graduate Assistant, Maseno University
Experience: Using Technology In the Classroom
Thomas Mawora Mwakudisa is a graduate trainee at Maseno University, Kenya, where he studied applied statistics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Thomas is one of the lead organizers of the only math camp in Kenya, which was first conducted in 2011. He has traveled throughout western Kenya to share ideas on how mathematics can be made to be a more exciting and interesting subject. Students on many occasions have shown that if taught well, mathematics has a potential of being one of the most loved subjects in schools.
In his role at the university, Thomas assists with the development of course material and helps students with their mathematical problems.
Emma Mulqueeny
CEO, Rewired State
Computer Science, Math, and ICT—Where Does Programming Fit?
Emma is the founder of Rewired State and Young Rewired State: Coding a better country.
Rewired State is the largest independent developer network in the UK, with over 800 software developers and designers, bringing about digital innovation and revolution through rapid prototyping events (hack days).
Young Rewired State is its philanthropic arm and is the only developer network of young UK programmers aged 18 and under who have taught themselves how to code. Both networks work together to prototype solutions to real-world problems.
Emma has recently been voted onto the Wired 100 list, writes regularly for The Guardian and on her own blog, and is best known for her campaign to "Teach our kids to code," relentlessly pushing the potential of the UK digital industry.
Alan Mycroft
Trustee, Raspberry Pi
Computer Science, Math, and ICT—Where Does Programming Fit?
Alan Mycroft is Professor of Computing at the University of Cambridge, where he has been employed since 1984. He has degrees in mathematics (BA, Cambridge, 1977) and computer science (PhD, Edinburgh 1982). He is a Founder and Trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Tim Oates
Cambridge Assessment
Debate: Society's Changing Needs for Math
Tim Oates joined Cambridge Assessment in May 2006 to spearhead the rapidly growing Assessment Research & Development division. He was previously at the Qualifications and Curriculum Agency (QCA), where he had been Head of Research and Statistics for most of the last decade.
Tim, who is Group Director, Assessment Research and Development, has produced work that commands national and international respect. His most recent work has been on a new pan-European 8-level qualifications framework. He has advised the UK government for many years on both practical matters and assessment policy.
He started his career as a research officer at the University of Surrey. He moved to the FE Staff College in 1987, where he helped run the Work-Based Learning project. London University's Institute of Education then appointed him as NCVQ Research Fellow. In 1993 he joined one of the QCA's predecessor bodies, the National Council for Vocational Qualifications, as Head of GNVQ Research and Development. Promotion to Director of Research followed two years later, leading to the same position upon the creation of the QCA. He has a first from the University of Sussex in philosophy with literature and an MA in philosophy from the same institution.
Maggie Philbin
Founder and CEO, TeenTech
Debate: Society's Changing Needs for Math
In November 2008, Maggie Philbin pioneered TeenTech, collaborating with business, education, and professional organizations to create a lively interactive one-day event that brought 400 young teenagers, scientists, and technology companies together. "The kids had their stereotypical image of engineers completely reversed and the companies were staggered by the enthusiasm and innate talent of the teenagers." The BBC1 Politics Show devoted half their program to the event. In April 2010 TeenTech won Best Engineering Event in Science Week.
In 2011, TeenTech piloted a national roll-out of the event in Berkshire, Humber, and Kent, and has now been set up by Maggie and fellow founder Chris Dodson as a Community Interest Company. TeenTech will run 10 events across the UK for teenagers and their teachers in 2012.
Recently she delivered a "Mini-Reith" Lecture on this subject on BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House, saying, "We talk endlessly about innovation, but we have to do more to inspire teenagers with fresh accurate images of the contemporary workplace. The vast majority of jobs, even in the near future, will be applications of science, technology, engineering, and maths. But at the moment a generation sit in chains, shackled to the false hope of instant success, and a magical belief that X factor, the lottery, or marrying a footballer will transform their lives."
Maggie sits on the panel of the New Engineering Foundation, which supports the development of Vocational Education and helps lecturers in FE get cutting-edge career development in industry. She is also patron of the Daphne Jackson Trust, which helps scientists, engineers, and technologists return to their careers. "Getting the right support and training is key, whether you're 16 or 60. It makes an enormous difference not only to the personal development and confidence of individuals, but to the success and reputation of companies and institutions."
Dwayne Philip
Curriculum Lead—Mathematics, Learning Schools Trust/Twickenham Academy
Experience: Using Technology In the Classroom
Dwayne holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and statistics (2:1) from the University of London, a PGCE from the University of Roehampton, and a master's degree in online and distance education from the Open University. In January he will begin working part-time toward a PhD in E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning at Lancaster University. Dwayne has worked as a secondary school educator since 2007, and he has been involved in various initiatives aimed at harnessing the power of technology to enhance teaching and learning at the secondary school level. Currently he is the Curriculum Lead for Mathematics at the Learning Schools Trust (LST), an academy chain in England, UK. In this role, Dwayne has designed and is leading the implementation of what is perhaps England's first and only blended learning secondary school mathematics curriculum, based on the personalized education model of the LST's Swedish sponsor, Kunskapsskolan Education (KED).
David Stern
Lecturer, Maseno University
STEM Skills for University and Industry
Future CBM Deployments
David Stern grew up in Niger, in francophone West Africa, returning to the UK and Germany for his university studies. For the past five years he has been working as a lecturer in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Sciences at Maseno University in Kenya. He is also coordinator of content development for the new e-campus of the university. Maseno University is in western Kenya, with the claim to fame that the main campus straddles the equator.
David's PhD was in pure mathematics, but his interests encompass mathematics and statistics from the very applied to the purely abstract. A large part of the attraction of working in Kenya is the immense variety of challenges that need mathematical or statistical support. His postgraduate students have worked or are working on problems in climate change, road building, descriptive statistics, and mathematics education as well as pure mathematics. Underlying these opportunities is the fact that the current education system is not producing enough people with the skills needed for the country's development. Technology is at the heart of Kenya's current development as a nation and provides amazing possibilities for educational innovation. Much of David's work in the past two years has been to develop a team to take advantage of these new opportunities, both for schools and universities.
David Vaccaro
Teacher, Sevenoaks School
Prototyping a CBM lesson
David Vaccaro studied mathematics at King's College Cambridge before moving to Oxford as a graduate research student and then non-stipendary lecturer at St Peter's College. He is now a teacher of mathematics at Sevenoaks School in Kent, and he also frequently gives Masterclasses at The Royal Institution, including a five-day summer school on Computer-Based Math.
Caroline Waters OBE
Director, People & Policy, BT
STEM Skills for University and Industry
Caroline has held a number of positions for the BT Group, where she is currently Director, People & Policy.
Her current role focuses on realizing BT's business ambitions through leading-edge people strategies, underpinned by robust policies and processes, which promote inclusivity, empower individuals, generate revenue and opportunity, and contribute to community and volunteering. She has actively pioneered homeworking, and other forms of flexible working, in BT for many years.
Caroline also leads BT's Diversity Centre of Expertise, which builds on the company's leadership in diversity practice to enhance implementation throughout BT's operations.
Caroline regularly contributes advice and guidance to government and industry. She is a member of a variety of employer forums and working parties, and has judged a number of prestigious diversity awards.
Caroline's work is widely recognized across the industry with appointment as HR Director of the Year at HR Magazine's HR Excellence Awards in 2009, where she is also consistently placed within a top three position in their annual HR's Most Influential listings. This leadership was further recognized by the award of an OBE in the New Year Honours List 2010 for services to diversity and equal opportunities.
Caroline also mentors a number of people from apprentices to senior business leaders.
Eddie Wilde
OCR Qualifications Team Manager
Assessment and CBM
Eddie has worked within the mathematics qualifications team at OCR for almost 13 years. Prior to this he worked as a teacher, and subsequently advisory teacher, for mathematics for almost 20 years.
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