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Keynote Speaker
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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
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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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