Education Keynotes & Masterclasses

Unleashing The Tribe: small passionate communities

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 Do you know that your teachers feel too burdened by the demands of the classroom to learn new skills? Do they complain about innovation?

Do you worry that your school is lagging behind in a digital world? Do you fear that the organisation is stuck in a timewarp?

In a keynote or masterclass we can give them concrete ideas based on experience, enthusiasm fired by a vision of what can be, and backup before and after to make it happen for them. Drop a line to Ewan to find out how, joining thousands of connected educators in the US, Canada, Europe, Middle East, China and India.

 

A selection of recent and upcoming talks

May 2011:

• INPlay11, Toronto, Canada
• Thinking Digital, Newcastle, UK
• EdTech11, Waterford, Ireland

June 2011:

• Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney: School archicture work groups & masterclasses, design thinking workshops

July 2011:

• South West ICT Conference, Bristol, UK
• Crowborough Beacon School Conference, East Sussex, UK
• Building Learning Communities, Boston, USA

September 2011:

• Channel 4 4Talent Roadshow throughout England, UK

October 2011: 

• Sandvika GS Conference, near Oslo, Norway

November 2011:

• AHDS Curriculum for Excellence and Technology Conference, near Glasgow, UK
• Brisbane, Sydney workshops on design thinking and technology

December 2011:

• Open Data & Research Keynote IDCC, Bristol, UK
• Ohio State ICT Conference, USA

Previous talks

Watch Ewan's six-minute spotlight at leading European Tech conference, Lift08, Geneva.

Unleashing The Tribe

How are teens' habits changing in the light of their favourite technologies, how does this change their expectations and what does it mean for those charged with their formal learning?

Hot on the heels of Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody, the elements of this talk still stand nearly two years on.

Watch and listen to this talk on Slideshare.

You can also view this talk in video at the IWMW event in University of Aberdeen, summer 2008.

The Bebo Boomers

How did a group of Edinburgh teens join a global trend and use social networks to keep their schools open?

Watch and listen to this talk on Slideshare.

How Public Is Your Public Body?

Open data and social media: just because we can make ourselves open and accountable does that mean we should? Yes, I argue in this talk.

Watch and listen to this talk on Slideshare.

Testimonials

 

At Creative Partnerships' National Conference

"Absolutely excellent. A gifted speaker who left me feeling motivated and inspired ready to take on lots of new challenges.""The Heads really responded very well to Ewan's talk, the tone and content was pitched perfectly and in a world of assessment and looming Ofsted, to have time to listen to a truly inspirational speaker was extremely welcoming proposition for the teachers."

At Reboot9

“Ewan McIntosh gave the best talk so far” Damien Mulley
“Just brilliant. The highlight of the two days”. Paul Carruthers

At the National College for School Leadership

“Practical and achievable ideas”...
“The presentation was stunning. Very inspiring.”

At The Scottish Government

“The response has been unequivocally positive.”

“After 26 years of teaching it was nice to be inspired again.”

At Local Authority events

"Absolutely riveting... fascinating and inspirational"

"Lots of realistic and practical ideas"

"The best workshop of the day - excellent ideas to encourage learning and teaching for all."

 

Where I've worked

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