Consultancy

                  Mark Treadwell

Mark is an independent education consultant. Mark has presented keynote addresses to over 250 national and international conferences in the last 4 years including The International Confederation of Principals; the 21st Century Learning Conference in Hong Kong; the Irish Principals Association ; Australasian Distance Education conference; the International Thinking Conference; British Schools Conference; NSW Secondary Principals conference; the International Science & Technology Educators Conference.  Mark was chosen as the ACEL Australian Travelling Scholar for 2008. Mark is also a director and business partner in the company that has developed the world's leading Learning Management System (LMS) software; the KnowledgeNET and has also developed the world's leading web saftey and filtering software; Watchdog.

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"Brilliant; Entertaining, Authoritative & Inspirational" 

Mark has worked with the New Zealand Ministry of Education as a member of the New Zealand Curriculum Review Group, the ICT and the Online Managaed Learning Environments unit over many years. Mark is currently also working with the:

  • University of Ohio as a contributing author to the resource  entitled “Bringing Schools into the 21st Century”;  published by Springer - published in March 2011
  • The Australian Federal government on a major project to create a multi-modal online professional development environment PLANE
  • The New Zealand Ministry of Education in developing the KnowledgeNET online Learning Management System and its links to a national ePortfolio environment
  • NSW Department of Education as an advisor to the Curriculum Learning & Innovation Centre

Resources (more details here)

Mark has recently released a series of Multimedia resources based on the theme “Whatever!” including “Whatever! School 2.0” and “Whatever Next!: The Global Curriculum”. The third resource in this series; “Whatever! Were we Thinking?” will be released in August 2011. These resources total over 100 readings, 1100+ A4pp, 300 diagrams, 850 research references and numerous videos. These are available for purchase from here

Conference/Workshop Presentations (more details here)

The theme for Mark’s talks is on the future of teaching and learning as we move through the second decade of the 21st century.  Integral to this is how

  • the Global Paradigm shift in Learning is changing the very purpose of education
  • new knowledge about how the brain learns can be utilised to develop effective pedagogy and andragogy in the domains of curriculum, assessment, inquiry learning, effective questioning and having students take on more responsibility for their own learning
  • a concept based curriculum and the explicit teaching of key competencies can prepare our learners for the society and world they will actually enter

The implications of these streams of understanding have resulted in entirely new approaches to teaching and learning, curriculum design and the technology environments that facilitate efficient and effective personalised learning where learners have the capacity to become lifelong learners.