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The Mitch and Leslie Frazer Faculty of Education’s Centre for Digital Innovation in Education (CDIE) will host the Digital Innovation in Education Conference 2025 on Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5. The conference is for professors, teachers, board innovators, librarians, administrators, and keen education students who want to share and learn about various areas of innovation in the education space. Over two days, participants will learn through round table discussions, research presentations and demonstrations, and poster presentations.

Presenters and workshop guides will share their insight on a wide range of topics aligning with the following themes:

• Pedagogical innovation: Such as inquiry, play, discovery, making, and design thinking; or innovation in experiential, project-based, and problem-finding/solving types of learning.
• Structural innovation: Such as learning spaces reimagined, makerspaces, living labs, and experimental classrooms; or, blended/hybrid, and virtual labs experiences.
• Digital innovation: Such as artificial intelligence, augmented/virtual/mixed realities, wearables/ biometrics, smart devices (Internet of Things), and assistive technologies.
• Teaching for innovation: Such as developing innovation skills and mindsets in Kindergarten-to-adult education, including teacher education and the creation of module/online resources.

Speakers include , former CBC host of the award-winning national radio show Spark, which explored technology and culture, and Dr. Peter Lewis, Canada Research Chair in Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology, and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies.

Dates

• Friday, April 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Evening speaker: (to be announced) 7 to 8 p.m.
• Saturday, April 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cost

• Advance registration (by Friday, March 7): $250
• Full registration (after March 7): $325
• Student: $50
• Presenter: $175

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