| London
to host premier learning conference & festival
LWF12
25th - 26th January 2012
 London
Olympia will play host to LWF12 (25th - 26th January),
the premier learning conference and festival dubbed
the "Davos of education", which this year
will debate "superstructures and the future
of learning”. Among the confirmed host of speakers
are innovator Ray Kurzweil, yachtswoman Dame Ellen
MacArthur, Conrad Wolfram founder of Wolfram Research
Europe Ltd, author and strategist Charles Leadbeater,
educationalist Sir Ken Robinson, Marjorie Scardino
CEO of Pearson Group a leading education business
and 'inguist and social/political theorist, Noam
Chomsky, among an array of others. With inspiring
talks in an unprecedented programme featuring some
of the worlds most respected thought leaders from
the education, digital media and entertainment sectors,
LWF promises two days of a packed schedule as well
as The LWF Awards for Innovation supported by NESTA.
Since 2004 LWF has presented
some of the most challenging, forward-thinking
conferences on the impact of new digital technologies
on learning, innovation and society. Accurately
predicting trends in the adoption of mobile, video
games, social media and other disruptive technologies
as important new tools for learning whilst providing
a vital forum and global community for sharing
knowledge, experiences and practice, LWF has become
the must attend conference and networking event
for those keeping ahead of the curve. No ordinary
conference about learning, LWF is a platform for
new thinking, new ideas & new practice to
challenge, disrupt and even replace traditional
approaches to learning.
 Aimed
at leaders, policy makers, innovators or inspired
practitioners working in education LWF allows
them to share the stage with respected artists,
designers, creators, inventors, entrepreneurs,
digital publishers, provocateurs and futurists
all focused on creating a better learning future
that would disrupt the status quo of tired thinking
and redundant practice. At the heart of LWF are
its communities who have taken a leadership role
in the use of mobile, gaming, social media, open
source and other disruptive technologies to support
and enrich learning experiences throughout the
learners life.
"The conference isn’t
simply a dialogue about technology. It is about
how our society and education systems respond
to the challenges of a rapidly changing world
and the demands of current and future generations",
explains LWF founder Graham Brown-Martin, "the
conference will argue that education is an important
superstructure reflecting and reinforcing the
foundation of society. It will discuss how this
underlying foundation has fundamentally shifted
from a post-industrial economy to a “Digital
Society” and reflect upon what this means
for education and what present and future generations
may need to learn in a world that is different
from the last century."
Visit www.learningwithoutfrontiers.com
for further information
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