Thursday 15th

UNRWA-UNESCO
Dr. Caroline Pontefract
Presentation of Dr. Caroline Pontefract on February 15th.
Dr Caroline Pontefract is a UNESCO employed Director of Education for UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestine refugees, established in 1949 and operating in five Fields: Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and West Bank. In post since 2010, based in Amman, she had spearheaded a systemic, agency wide education reform to transform teaching and learning practices and the learning of outcomes of over 520,000 Palestine refugee pupils. She has also led the Agency’s innovative multi-stranded education in emergency response to the Syrian crisis, a crisis affecting more than 60,000 school-aged Palestine refugees from Syria.
Dr Pontefract has previously worked as the Director for the Social Transformation Division in the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. In this role she was responsible for education, health and gender across the Commonwealth.
At UNESCO HQ, she was Chief of Teacher Education with a global remit for teachers and their professional development and the implementation of the UNESCO-ILO Recommendations on the Status of Teacher Personnel.
Dr Pontefract has also worked for bilateral and multilateral agencies (DFID, Africa Development Bank), both in the UK and overseas, on the development of national and regional education programmes, often with a focus on teacher education, and formerly she worked as an teacher educationalist in universities and local education authorities in UK.
Friday 16th

Ludodidactiek
Willem-Jan Renger
Willem-Jan Renger is an innovator, conceptualiser and educator. Willem-Jan is the founder of ‘ludodidactiek’, a unique design methodology focussed on a specific application of game and play principles for teaching and learning. Ludodidactiek is a specific form of applying game and play principles in the design of learning processes leading to both analog or digital solutions.

Perfect Storm
Frank Evers
Frank is initiator and co-founder of PerfectStorm. He is well known for his passionate way of leading innovative educational project and organizations. Frank co-designed several school concepts and curricula. At Turning Learning he is Innovation and Capacity Leader for the Dutch Cluster of the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning partnership. In his campfire ‘The art of ignorance’ he expresses the value of embracing the unknown and finding real problems through various questioning strategies.

HKU University
Hartmut Koenitz
Hartmut is Professor for Interactive Narrative Design at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, researching Interactive Digital Narrative in Video Games and other emerging digital formats. His research interests are at the intersection of art, culture, history, and technology. He is a passionate teacher and awarded the “Class of 1969 Teaching Scholars” award at Georgia Tech.