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Bakgrunden till EdCamp - ett sätt att dela kunskap och erfarenhet mellan lärare - på plats och via webben. Fett! Från (engelska) Wikipedia:

An edcamp is a user-generated conference - commonly referred to as an "unconference". Edcamps are designed to provide participant-driven professional development for K-12 educators. Edcamps are modeled after BarCamps, free participant-driven conferences with a primary focus on technology and computers. Educational technology is a common topic area for edcamps, as are pedagogy, practical examples in instructional use of modern tools, and solving the problems technology can introduce into the classroom environment.

Edcamps are generally free or very low-cost, built around ad hoc community participation. Sessions are not planned until the day of the event, when participants can volunteer to facilitate a conversation on a topic of their choice. Edcamps operate "without keynote speakers or vendor booths, encourage participants to find or lead a conversation that meet their needs and interests."

Hywel Roberts author of 'Oops! Helping Children Learn Accidentally' will be attending the event and will present a 10 minute session on helping children learn accidentally; Crown House Publishing has donated a free day pass to Hywel's conference (date to be confirmed).

Hywel is a teacher, author and educationalist working with many  educational organisations across the UK and beyond. Hywel was a senior leader and Advanced Skills Teacher at a secondary school in the North of England until 2009. He is a visiting practitioner to Leeds Metropolitan University, Manchester Metropolitan University, an associate consultant for the University of Wolverhampton and a member of the National Executive for the National Association for the Teaching of Drama.

From basic but great classroom pedagogy to developing a ‘blended brave curriculum’ to teacher coaching, leadership development and mentoring (also including TA, AST, NQT development and cover supervisor training) to wonderfully innovative and life-changing strategies such as ‘Mantle of the Expert’, Hywel covers – and practices - a whole variety of approaches that make learning real for young people and delivers his work with an energy and a humour that is quite, quite infectious. Recently Hywel has support curriculum innovation in special settings where his contributions have been recognised as ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.

Hywel has most recently worked with Mick Waters, Roy Leighton, Karen Ardley, Phil Beadle, Alistair Smith and is an associate of Ian Gilbert’s Independent Thinking. He is currently supporting school improvement in across the UK through longer-term partnership arrangements and is a regular on the Keynote circuit where he offers his own cutting edge view of education, curriculum and learning.