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International conference on the role of ICT in Bridge-building and Social Inclusion - Raporteurs Summary

Time
Speaker
Title & Link to Rapporteurs Summary
9.30 am to 10.10 am
Dr Roger Austin
Key issues for educators, researchers and policy makers on ICT for bridge-building and social inclusion’
10.15 am to 10.55am
Dr Ruth Firer
Virtual Bridges over Stormy Waters’
11.20 am - 12.50pm
Carol Fletcher and
Robert Hart
Online Learning Communities – Crossing Cultural Divides.
 
Angela Rickard
Dissolving Boundaries through Technology in Education 2000 – 2006.
Rapporteur
Dr Alison Montgomery
Rapporteurs Summary
2.00 pm - 3.30 pm
Peter Heaney
Using VLE (Think.com) and videoconferencing to complement and support primary school children, within the UK and Europe, presenting, sharing and affirming aspects of their cultural, social and physical environment.
 
Marie Martin and Dr Susan O’Rourke,
The Role of Video Conferencing in Bridge-Building.
4.00 pm - 5.00 pm

Elaine Hoter, Miri Shonfeld,
Asmaa Ganayem
Constructing bridges between cultures in conflict through an online teacher education course.
 
Sharon Ayalon and
Avital Drori
Strangers no more: How Internet contributes to respectful dialogue between estranged groups in Israel’.
5.15 pm - 6.45 pm
Stephen Heppell
Welcome to the Sharing Age: why the 21 st century is not the 20 th century, and what this means for learning everywhere’

Rapporteur

Jackie Lambe
Rapporteurs Summary



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