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Doctor Julia Atkin is universally recognised for her rich understanding of learning and thinking in the classroom and providing practical ways to support teachers. Julia will focus on ‘what is powerful learning?' and ‘how do we inspire and engage our learners?' Julia works extensively across Australia with individual schools as well as with education systems to help transform how they design the learning landscape - both pedagogically and physically. Her international work includes NZ, USA, UK, OECD and numerous leading keynotes at conferences. []
 * KEYNOTE PRESENTERS AT SA TEACHERS CONFERENCE**
 * Julia Atkin**

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Professor Erica McWilliam is a celebrated and inspiring speaker who recently quipped ‘the future isn't what it used to be'. Her internationally renowned work looks at high challenge teaching and learning. Erica will present a series of virtual ‘mini-sessions' which explore ‘the pleasure of the rigour of learning'. Erica is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, based at Queensland University of Technology and is sought after as a speaker internationally. [] Find below a link to an interesting article prosed by Erica. Entitled Personally Significant Learning it masterfully pulls together so many education norms we must get our heads around as staff in front of students as well as leaders in schools trying to move our schools to being fantastic, vibrant and **relevant** to students of 2012 and beyond. []
 * Erica Mc William**

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Professor Martin Westwell, named by //The UK Times// as Scientist of the New Century, moved to SA in 2007 after his trip to Adelaide as Deputy Director of the Institute for the Future of the Mind. Martin wanted his children to experience the teaching and learning he had seen here in SA. His keynote will help us think about 21st century learning and how we design for this. Martin is currently the Director of the Flinders Centre for Science Education in the 21st Century. He is known as an inspirational and challenging speaker. []
 * Martin Westwell**

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