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This is a national conference with an international focus, featuring prominent Australian and overseas speakers and educators. Digital Diversity addresses the interactive and creative approaches to ICT in education, and offers learners the pathways to adaptability by addressing the diversity of styles of learning and thinking. This conference will address this need for flexible technologies for flexible learners. It will examine ways that ICTs can maximize student’s own potential through their personal learning styles. It will investigate how ICTs can allow all people including those with diverse skills and thinking strategies become life long and creative learners. It will focus on areas such as: * School improvement: addressing development and articulation of a vision for the role of technology in school improvement. * Technology infrastructure: focusing on the technology, resources, and policies necessary to build the technology infrastructure for effective teaching, learning and administration. * Professional learning: focuses on the development of leaders, and the education and accountability of teachers, administrators and other educators. * 21st Century teaching and learning: covering all aspects of technology use in the learning environment. * Virtual schooling / eLearning: covering all aspects of designing, choosing and evaluating and implementing online courses and eLearning experiences for students. Keynote speakers * Alan November - Leading Educational Technology Consultant * Adam Elliot - Academy Award® Winning Director * Gary Stager - Executive Director The Constructivist Consortium * Sylvia Martinez - Generation Yes * Tom March - 'Bright Ideas for Education' * Chris Rogers - Tufts University * 'On the Couch with Jeff Richardson' - (ABC - The Coodabeens)