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Keynote Speaker
 

Professor Angela McFarlane, BSc(Bristol),
PhD( Bristol), PGCE (Institute of Education)
Director of Content and Learning, RBG Kew, Professor of Education, University of Bristol, UK
 


Bio

Angela McFarlane is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol and leads the Content and Learning Team at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, specialising in real and virtual experiences of Plants and Plant Science that engage and educate. She has designed and directed a number of highly successful educational software development projects. Her research has investigated the role of digital technologies in learning including work with national evaluation projects in the UK and an international review with the OECD. Angela has been a school science teacher, and worked for the UK government agency for educational technology. Her development work has included work in schools in SE Asia, The Middle East, South America and Europe including the UK. Most recently she was one of a team of four who carried out a review of the ICT MasterPlan 2 for the Singapore Ministry of Education. She has served on the boards of Teachers TV and Futurelab and is a member of the Becta Research Advisory Group.


Recent Publications

McFarlane, A.E. (2007) Online communities of learning – lessons from the world of games and play. In Andrews, R. and Haythornthwaite, C. (eds) (2007), Handbook of Elearning Research, London: Sage

Wishart, J., Ramsden, A. and McFarlane, A. (2007) PDAs and Handhelds: ICT at your side and not in your face Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 16(1), 95-110

Wishart, J., la Velle, L., Green, D. and McFarlane, A. (2007)The Opportunities Afforded by Online Discussion for Teaching Bioethics in Secondary Schools. School Science Review 88(324), 59-65

Faux, F, McFarlane, A.E., Roche, N and Facer, K. (2006) Handhelds- learning with handheld technologies. Futurelab, Bristol www.futurelab.org.uk

Hennessy, S., Wishart, J., Whitelock, D., Deaney, R., Brawn, R., la Velle, L., McFarlane, A., Ruthven, K. and Winterbottom, M. (2006) Pedagogical Approaches for Technology-Integrated Science Teaching, Computers and Education, 48(1), 137-152

Cheng, C. and McFarlane, A. (2006) "Gaming Culture and Digital Literacy: Inspiration and Audience", in Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy, 02 (1). Universitetsforlaget, Oslo

Jacobs, N and McFarlane, A. (2005) Conferences as learning communities: some early lessons in using 'back-channel' technologies at an academic conference – distributed intelligence or divided attention? Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 21 (5) 317- 329.

Kirriemuir, J and McFarlane, A (2004) A literature review on Computer games and learning, Report 7 Nesta Futurelab Bristol www.nestafuturelab.org
Baggott la Velle, LM, Brawn, R, McFarlane, A and John, P. (2004) According to the Promises: the sub-culture of school science, teachers’ pedagogical identity and the challenge of ICT. ECi 4 (1) 109-130.


 

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