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IBM: Smarter Planet Teacher Workshop - Technology Today & Tomorrow

Monday, March 21, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM (GMT)

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IBM Smarter Planet Teacher Workshop:

Technology Today & Tomorrow

 

The event begins at 9:30 and will finish at 3:30 and is aimed to provide teachers with resources and skills to deliver work targeting at secondary school students.

This workshop is particularly aimed at ICT, Computing and Business Studies teachers who wish to broaden their skills and receive specialist tuition from experienced IBM technology staff.  This may fit into many areas of both the KS4 and KS5 curriculum especially for areas regarding emerging technologies.  This is aimed to provide professional development, allow networking with other teachers in your area and to allow you to add further context to your lesson using resources provided in this workshop.

 

Objectives and Benefits

  • Provide an insight into the benefits that technology can bring, both today and in the near future. 
  • Explain how IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative helps save energy and conserve resources and how this can be applied in local schools.
  • Explore how a game-playing computer can make a difference in medical diagnosis and other practical applications
  • Describe and discuss real life examples of  technology bringing community and business benefits
  • Provide the opportunity for interaction between teachers and experienced IBM technology staff: your opportunity to question the experts and benefit from their experience.

 

Draft Agenda for secondary school teachers

Welcome, Introduction and Objectives of the day Including a description of the skills needed for specific roles in IT

 

100 X 100 Video

Description of  technology innovations over the past 100 years

 

Smarter Planet

Use of instrumentation, intelligence and interconnection to make the world a better place

 

Break out session

Opportunity for teachers to plan how to use the messages from the morning in their classrooms. Teachers will work in small groups with an IBMer in each group.

 

Lunch

 

Watson Video

Technology used to interpret human speech and analyse huge stores of information as demonstrated in the TV show Jeopardy;  how might this technology be used in the real world?

 

IBM in action (Wimbledon for example)

Account of a real life application of technology

 

Resources

IBM material available to teachers and how it can be used

 

Q & A session

Opportunity for teachers to ask the IBMers any questions arising from the day