Featured Keynote Speakers
Professor Sarah Moore Fitzgerald is currently a member of the Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. She has an academic background in psychology and pedagogy, was UL’s first Dean of Teaching and Learning and, for the past 6 years has been Ireland’s inaugural chair of the National Forum for the enhancement of teaching and learning in higher education.
Sarah holds an award for excellence in teaching, and areas of expertise include fostering strategies for self-aware writing habits and on ways of making space and time to write across all genres. Sarah has published several books and many journal papers on academic and educational development including The Handbook of Academic Writing (Rowena Murray) and The Ultimate Study Skills Handbook (with Maura Murphy, Colin Neville and Cornelia Connolly) and New Approaches to Problem Based Learning (with Terry Barrett).
Sarah has also always been a creative writer and has published four novels. Her fiction has been adapted for the stage at the Edinburgh Festival and at the Arts Theatre in London’s West End. She has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize and the CBI Book of the Year Award and in 2015 she received a Kirkus star for her second novel, 'The Apple Tart of Hope'. In 2016 she won the Irish Writers’ Centre’s Jack Harte Award.
Her current work focuses on integrating creative practice and skills in higher education.
Prof. Sarah Moore Plenary Title "Teaching and Learning for Creative Practice"
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Dr John Breslin is Director of TechInnovate and a Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway. He is also a Co-Principal Investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. He co-created the SIOC framework (Wikipedia article), implemented in hundreds of applications (by Yahoo, Boeing, Vodafone, etc.) on over 25,000 websites. He has written 175 peer-reviewed academic publications (with best paper awards from SEMANTICS, ICEGOV, ESWC, PELS), and co-authored the books "The Social Semantic Web" and "Social Semantic Web Mining".
John is co-founder of boards.ie (Ireland's largest discussion forum website; Wikipedia article), adverts.ie (classified ads website), and StreamGlider (real-time streaming newsreader app). He has won two IIA Net Visionary awards. He is an advisor to AYLIEN, BuilderEngine and Pocket Anatomy. He is co-founder of Startup Galway and the Galway City Innovation District / PorterShed. He also serves on the boards of WestBIC and the American Council of Exercise.
Merrilyn Goos is Professor of STEM Education and Director of EPI*STEM at the National Centre for STEM Education, at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
Prof. Merrilyn Goos, Plenary Title "Designing for numeracy across the curriculum"
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Anna worked as a post-primary teacher of chemistry, biology and mathematics before her apointment in 2003 as National Co-ordinator for the Junior Science Support Service. She joined the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment in 2006, where she works in curriculum and assessment development in STEM subjects. Most recently, Anna led the development of the Leaving Certificate Computer Science specification due to be implemented in schools on a phased basis starting in 2018. Her interests focus primarily upon issues relating to curriculum coherence and the synergy between curriculum, assessment and pedagogy. Anna has served on a variety of national and international STEM Education committees, including the Government Commissioned Review of STEM Education in the Irish School System (Report published in November 2016). She was a member of the STEM Education Steering Group that contributed to the development of the Governments Stem Education Policy Statement 2017-2026.
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Zalman Usiskin is a professor emeritus of education at the University of Chicago, where he was an active faculty member from 1969 through 2007. He continues at the university as the overall director of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP), a position he has held since 1987.
His research has focused on the teaching and learning of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry, with particular attention to applications of mathematics at all levels and the use of transformations and related concepts in geometry, algebra, and statistics. His interests are broader, covering all aspects of mathematics education, with particular emphasis on matters related to curriculum, instruction, and testing; the selection and organization of content; the teaching and learning of mathematics; international mathematics education; teacher education; the history of mathematics education; and educational policy.
He is the author or co-author of over 150 articles and other papers on mathematics and mathematics education, dozens of books and book-length research monographs, including textbooks and their teachers’ editions. In developing these materials, he has taught mathematics in nine different secondary schools. He is a co-author of a mathematics text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in gaining deeper knowledge about high school mathematics. From its inception in 1983, he has directed the development of the UCSMP curriculum for grades 6-12, a full mathematics curriculum that covers both pure mathematics and its applications and utilizes and whose latest edition assumes students have access to computer algebra systems, dynamic algebra and geometry, spreadsheets, and other technology.
He has served on the Mathematical Sciences Education Board of the National Research Council, the Board of Directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and the United States National Commission on Mathematics Instruction, which he chaired from 1998 to 2001. From 1995 through 2004 he was a member of the test-development committee of the National Assessment of Educational Progress. From 2004 through 2015, he was a co-Principal Investigator of the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum, a multi-university consortium, during which he was the chief organizer of three international conferences in mathematics education.
He is well-known as a speaker in the U.S. and abroad. He has spoken at conferences or colloquia in all 50 U.S. states and 26 foreign countries about a variety of topics, matching his broad interests in mathematics education. In 1987 and 1999, he was the banquet speaker at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual meeting. He has been on the program of every International Congress of Mathematical Education (ICME) since 1972 and was a special invited lecturer in Canada in 1992, and in Korea in 2012. For ICME-13 in August 2016 he was a co-chair of the topic study group on curriculum development.
He has received the highest honors bestowed by the two largest mathematics education organizations in the United States, the Glenn Gilbert (National Leadership) Award from the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics in 1994, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from NCTM in 2001. In 2014, NCTM published a book containing 38 of his talks and articles, the first time the organization has published a collection of writings of one person.
He has been married for 38 years to Karen, a mathematics K-12 product development manager at Pearson Education. They have two children, a son Robert, a scientist (materials science) and a daughter Laura, a cellist (performer and teacher).
Dr. Michael Hogan is a senior lecturer and researcher at the School of Psychology, NUI, Galway. His research foci include individual, social and technology factors contributing to child and adult learning, collective intelligence, and well-being. A key designer of the collective intelligence stakeholder engagement methodology in the EU SeaforSociety project (2012 – 2014), the technology design methodology in the EU Route-to-PA project (2015 – 2018) and in projects applying innovative technology in classrooms, he is an active member in international networks and is currently working to advance the work of John Warfield by developing a new approach to Applied Systems Science Education.
Prof. Akihiko Takajashi is an Associate Professor of mathematics education at DePaul University in the United States. He teachers mathematics teaching and learning, and mathematics for prospective teachers. He also provides workshops and seminars for practising teacher using ideas from the US and Asian countries. He was an elementary teacher in Japan before becoming an educator of mathematics teachers. During his elementary teachers career he was active in mathematics lesson study and mentored 200 pre-service teachers. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; his dissertation research focused on internet use in mathematics education.
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Emeritus Professor Kaye Stacey is one of Australia’s leading mathematics education experts with a strong international reputation. She has worked as a researcher in mathematics education, a primary and secondary teacher educator, a supervisor of graduate research and as an adviser to governments. She has written many practically-oriented books and articles for mathematics teachers as well as producing about 300 research articles. As Foundation Professor of Mathematics Education at University of Melbourne, she led the science and mathematics teacher education and research programs for two decades, and was appointed as Emeritus Professor on her retirement. Kaye currently is Director of Special Topics for the Australian Academy of Science on the reSolve project, which is preparing classroom resources supporting the Australian Curriculum (Mathematics) for school years F – 10 and providing a major professional learning program. She is also current editor of Educational Designer, the journal of ISDDE.
Professor Stacey’s research and development interests have always centred on mathematical thinking and problem solving, and new directions for the mathematics curriculum, particularly the challenges which are faced in adapting to the new and rapidly changing technological environment. Her research work is renowned for its high engagement with schools and practical aspects of student learning and teaching. Her writing for teachers has always aimed to promote deeper mathematical thinking, a spirit of inquiry, and to promote education in mathematics that contributes to individual and societal well-being.
The quality of Kaye’s contribution and research expertise has been recognised by appointments to the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts, as Chair of the OECD PISA Mathematics Expert Group for the major assessment of mathematics in 2012, and to the Board of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority from 2018. She has been awarded the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australia Career Research Medal, Fellow of Australian Mathematical Society, the Lifetime Achievement Award of ISDDE (2017) and the Centenary Medal from the Australian Government for outstanding services to mathematics education.
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