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KIDS' CONFERENCE

Presenter and Facilitator Guide
Hosted by the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - TBA This conference is a live streamed hybrid event -international presentations via Zoom

5th Kids' Conference Oxford 2025

Hosted by The Department of Education, University of Oxford - 2nd July - Now open - Register here - closes 1st June This conference is a live-streamed hybrid event -international presentations via Zoom

2nd Kids' Conference Africa 2025


13th Kids' Conference Australia 2025

Hosted and sponsored by the Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne - 10th November - opens 5th August & closes 25th October Supported by The Royal Society of Victoria, the Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria, Cultural Infusion This conference is in-person - international presentations via pre-recorded film.

2nd Kids' Conference Las Americas 2025

Hosted by Facultad de Educación, Universidad del la Sabana - to be announced. This conference is a live streamed hybrid event - international presentations via Zoom

Kids' Conference Antarctica 2025 - 12th August-

Hosted by The Royal Society of Victoria & Sponsored by Inspiring Victoria Opens 2nd June & closes 28th July. This conference will be a virtual online global conference

For Presenters

Conference Guidance: The Kids' Conference provides primary and secondary students with the opportunity to present innovative projects which draw on new and emerging technologies. The use of technologies may feature in the conducting of research or in the reporting of findings and presentations. Students can present solo or in small groups. The Kids' Conference is not looking for presentations of fully formed solutions, but if you need some additional support for your project team to get started, we offer dedicated outreach support via Zoom and iSee video conferencing and in person where possible. The outreach program aims to build your skills in project facilitation, team development and presenting your ideas to a wider audience.
If you have an innovative idea which you think offers a new way of learning or sharing your project, the first step is to find a teacher who can help facilitate your work. Ask them how they can support developing your idea to a level where it’s ready to present at the Kids' Conference. Your idea can be developed inside or outside school. Your project should present a new way of looking at a current challenge, something about our past or even looking to the future. Once your idea and project gets going, think about how you can explore and present or demonstrate your idea. Use the guide below as a prompt to get started.
We want to be sure that you are recognised for your original idea and your approach to research. We’d like you to also describe how you tackled any challenges and what you learned from the process. All presenters receive a certificate of participation and have an opportunity to network with fellow students. See examples of past projects presented virtually by our international presenters >> Kindling graphic

For Teacher-Facilitators

WHY PARTICIPATE AS A TEACHER? The Kids’ Conference promotes student voice and enables student-led learning. The conference gives students a unique opportunity to share their learning process and creative problem solving with their peers, teachers and other leaders in education. The Kids' Conferences brings together all disciplines to include interdisciplinary approaches. Kids' Conference Oxford will also contribute Religious Education and Languages to their conference programme. The Kids’ Conference encourages school age students of all abilities to share their creativity and insights in how they engage with technology to enhance their disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning and bring their ideas to life. We support an open, non-competitive environment and encourage students to also share their challenges and how they dealt with barriers and obstacles encountered as part of their learning.
We aim to recognise and further enable teachers who are actively facilitating student projects and bring their original ideas to a wider audience. Each year we hold pre-conference workshops to support teacher facilitation and student team development.The dates of these workshops will be announced.
We love sharing participant school projects anytime via Twitter @KidsConference. Please follow us if you'd like your teaching ideas and projects to be profiled by us. Systems Thinking Systems Thinking offers a way to see the world as a complex ecology, “a dynamic framework for describing, assessing, analysing and explaining how a person and world function together in human development, " (Fischer & Yan, 1998, p.3). ST empowers us to more effectively see connections and understand complex relationships. Inaugural Kids' Conference Las Americas The Inaugural Kids' Conference Las Americas '23 theme is Regenerative Futures: Youth leading the way. This focus emphasises how children and youth re-imagine futures of hope towards a kinder, gentler, more creative and peaceful future. Projects will invite us to imagine realities of a new way of liviing together, in harmony, moving away from the present values of domination and extraction. They will talk the language of the heart, language of the brain and language of the hands.
ST also enhances our ability to see patterns, make informed generalisations, theorise, think critically, solve complex problems in developing an ecological world view. If students are to prepare for an unpredictbale world, they must be able to think systemically and advocate for their own learning. Systems Thinking Resources Kids’ Conference 2024 NOMINATING PRESENTERS & REGISTRATIONS Presenters must be nominated and registered for the Kids' Conference by a teacher associated with the school where the student is enrolled or by a person nominated by the school with a suitable working with children clearance. Each year expressions of interest reservations for presenters are available. This confirms your conference presenter slot whilst decisions about presenters & projects are being decided. Student presenters must be nominated for each conference by the presenter registration closing date for each conference. The Australian conferences are convened during November.Conference registrations will open via theKids’ Conference Website. See the conference formats. Please contact us if you would like to express your interest in presenting a project to one of the Conferences.If your student presenters are drawing on digital tools or another author's work in producing their presentations, please advise them on including an APA reference list.
Preparing for the Kids' Conference Some points to consider when developing and presenting your project Your idea Which subject interests you the most? What do you know about your subject? Is your idea something that links up two subjects? Considered your key research question? Your team Who can you work with to help with your idea? How can your teacher help facilitate your project? Who else might be able to help or advise you? Your processWhat information do you need? Where can you find the information you need?What other resources do you need?
Your research & demo toolsWhat tools can you use to help with your project? What tools can help to demonstrate your idea? Can you use some new tools for your presentation?
Develop your idea further What did you find out that was new? What did you discover that was unexpected? How did you deal with the challenges? Preparing your presentation How will you explain your idea? What will interest the audience the most? What can you demonstrate that's surprising? If you are drawing on digital tools or another author's work in producing your presentation, ask your teacher about including an APA reference list. Ready to Present Who will present which part of yourpresentation? How can you summarise your project to present within 10 minutes? Can you share some challenges and what you learned? Can you answer some questions? You can present either solo or as a group collaboration of up to 5 students on a shared single project and materials. Any branding of presenter materials must be Kids' Conference and or school branding only. See examples of past projects presented virtually by our international delegates. Registration for Kids' Conference Las Americas to be announced, Kids' Conference Australia opens 5th August and closes 25th October, Kids' Conference Oxford opens 2nd April and closes 1st June and the 2nd Kids' Conference Africa opens 2nd April and closes 3rd June, Kids' Conference Antarctica opens 2nd June and closes 28th July. Teachers are requested to submit their students' Kids' Conference presentation files/URL links to the Kids Cloud here by 15th June for Kids' Conference Oxford, 20th June for Kids' Conference Africa and by 31st October for Kids' Conference Australia and Kids' Conference Antarctica by 1st August for the Kids' Conference Committee to view.

THE KIDS' CONFERENCE

ON THE DAY - PRESENTERS & FACILITATORS

All student presenters must be accompanied to the Conference by a teacher or a nominated representative of the school. On the day teachers / facilitators are encouraged to introduce their students and ‘be a back stop’ for support if needed. The presentation should match the students' abilities and allow the students to lead throughout. Students presenting should also briefly explain their creative learning experience and problem solving processes.
The Kids’ Conference is a supportive environment and all delegates are interested in learning directly from the students. Students should feel comfortable and well prepared to present at the Conference but we value diversity, innovation, creativity and originality. For this reason group contributions are positively encouraged. If any presenters have special requirements we will make every effort to accommodate them. Please bring your presentation file or link on a memory stick on the conference day to present from. A computer will be provided for inperson conferences. Morning tea/coffee will be provded by the conference hosts. However, we advise all delegates to bring a packed lunch. Alternatively, lunch can be purchased at the conference venues or at local cafes/restaurants in the vicinity.

PRE-RECORDED PRESENTATIONS FOR REMOTE, INTERSTATE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS PRESENTING AT THE KIDS' CONFERENCE

International, remote regional and interstate students may also present their projects live to the Kids' Conference to include one 10min pre-recorded video, such as public Youtube for example. Students presenting outside time zones of any Kids' Conference (with the exception of KC Asia), will present entiely via a 10min pre-recorded video to be submitted via the Kids Cloud and will be played on behalf of those international presenters by the conference convenor. Students presenting pre-recorded videos as out-of -zone candidates are also required to include a short “Making Of” section (max 5 mins extra) where students explain and share their insights about how they developed their project. If teachers would like to nominate students(s) to present via pre-recorded mode (international/interstate & rural remote students) they can complete an online expression of interest via the homepage or formally register their students in the Kids' Confernce of their choosing. Places may be limited for 2024, so expressions of interest are encouraged.
After registrations are confirmed, presenters using pre-recorded video for Kids' Conference Australia, must have their teachers upload their presentations to the Kids Cloud. If presenters have special requirements, eg software etc, please contact us to discuss your requirements: stephenspain@kidsconference.online
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