Hundreds of trainee teachers, current teachers and administrators from the public and private education sectors will gather at Glenmore High on Friday, September 9 (9am-2pm).

The gathering will include around 200 trainee teachers (now referred to as ‘learning managers’) from the Faculty of Education and Creative Arts at Central Queensland University.

The Bachelor of Learning Management (BLM) students will presented their Futures Expo 'installations' to teachers, school students and interested members of the public, who will provide an authentic context for the work.

Participants will discuss new interactive learning environments and activities.

The BLM students will share learning methods and concepts that can engage learners from Early, Middle and Senior-Secondary phases over the next decade and beyond.

Learning managers will incorporate digital technologies into their activities and have designed authentic learning tasks around learners’ interests.

Teachers are competing with amazing products in the ‘edutainment’ marketplace like the newest digital phones, personal information devices and the World Wide Web, explained CQU’s Dr Lindy Isdale.

“Students, more than ever, are poised to pace their own learning and contribute to their own learning. What we have to do as learning managers, or teachers, is integrate those types of ‘wow’ factors into teaching and anticipate future learning needs,” added Dr Isdale, an authority on educational futures.

Teams of Learning Managers, currently studying ‘Futures’ as part of their degree at CQU, are developing dozens of experiences for the Expo that have real applications for learning today.

The Futures Expo is a partnership between the Glenmore P-12 alliance and the CQU Faculty of Education and Creative Arts. ENDS.

Photos: Some of last year's activities.