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My name is Josh Hardy and I am a computing teacher from Esperance Senior High School. There are about 960 kids at Esperance Senior High School. I am hoping to take away some insights and interesting and exciting ideas from this conference.

This page is a summary of notes I have taken at the 2009 ecawa conference.

Barry Vercoe - Keynote speaker from MIT

MIT Culture Culture of Tolerance - if you don't fail you haven't tried hard enough

Where does innovation spring from? Clash of cultures Clash of disciplines and ways of thinking Clash of ways of doing things High tolerance for failure

What are innovation deterrents? Walls and buildings Funding streams Measures of success Mid-level management

How can we induce a capacity to invent? a thirst for learning? - play based learning

Brett Clarke - Yearn to Learn

Things only change when theres agents of change.

Think about things differently - How would you run your course differently if you didn't have computers?

Every course has 2 components 1 content 2 learning how to do it