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Lessons from uLearn ahead of 2020

<h2>School News is attending the conference &&num;8211&semi; come and say hello or refresh this page for all the key takeaways&excl;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Rotorua’s Energy Events Centre will be packed with over 1000 educators across three days&period; They&&num;8217&semi;ll be talking&comma; planning and presenting on three big trending themes in education&colon; Citizenship&comma; Disruption&comma; and Innovation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reimagine learning &vert; Pohewatia te &amacr;p&omacr;p&omacr; is the title of this year’s annual <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;core-ed&period;org&sol;events&sol;ulearn&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">uLearn<&sol;a>&comma; a futures-focused education conference run by CORE Education&period; The conference mission is to consider what New Zealand’s learners need to thrive in a world that is faster&comma; more uncertain&comma; and more complex than ever before&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Keynote speakers leading the three main themes are local entrepreneur&comma; Shay Wright &lpar;Te Whare Hukahuka&rpar; and international speakers&comma; Dominic Liechti &lpar;Apple&rpar; and Sally Ann Williams &lpar;Cicada Innovations&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The uLearn19 programme features over 100 breakouts sessions offered by educators and others including&comma; Microsoft’s Ng&amacr; Motu for Minecraft&colon; Education Edition demos&comma; Apple’s hands-on &num;EveryoneCanCreate sessions&comma; an Innovation and Inquiry Symposium and facilitated panel and sofa discussions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>UPDATE&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1181658734843482112" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1181671859915374593" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1181718780549816321" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1181770214649688064" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1181768379897532416" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1181774361620910080" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1181752038884921345" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1181745111643783168" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1181677675963805696" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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Rosie Clarke

Rosie is the managing editor here at Multimedia Pty Ltd, working across School News New Zealand and School News Australia. She has spent 10+ years in B2B journalism, and has spent some time over the last couple of years teaching as a sessional academic. Feel free to contact her at any time with editorial or magazine content enquiries.

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