On June 28, the first day of the XXXIV International Conference on the Application of Information Technologies in Education "ITO 2023" ended. The conference is being held online. More than 700 representatives of the pedagogical community take part in it: teachers of preschool, primary, basic, vocational and additional education, teachers using information technologies in inclusive education, specialists in the field of improving the IT qualification of teachers, teachers of engineering and IT disciplines.
The conference program includes two days of plenary presentations by experts, six interesting sections, a round table on trends in engineering training for schoolchildren, and an IT workshop for teachers.
Andrey Vorobyev, Director of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ, took part in the plenary session that opened the conference. He spoke about Russian solutions for educational institutions and presented the youth projects of the Coordination Center. Also speaking at the session were Vladimir Dudochkin, Head of the Troitsk urban district in Moscow, Andrey Sebrant, Director of strategic marketing at Yandex, Sergey Lozovenko, Director of the Institute of Physics, Technology and Information Systems of Moscow State Pedagogical University, Ilona Yuzhakova, General Director of the OKNO Center for Quality Assurance, Anastasia Gorelova, Head of the ARPP Committee for Informatization of Education, Irina Demyanenko, founder of the CAREER LAB career laboratory, and Darya Kalabukhova, Executive Director of the Foundation for New Technologies in Education BAITIK.
“Participants in our projects for young people - the Summer School on Internet Governance, the Youth Council, the Digital Reality Discussion Club - grow and develop with us. Some of them are even members of Russian delegations at international venues such as ITU, ICANN and IGF. It is important to pay attention to the formation of a candidate pool of the younger generation. Although they are not always full-time employees of organizations, they make up an expert pool, the existence of which helps to ensure the sustainable development of the industry,” Andrey Vorobyev said.
We remind you that another conference is being held on June 29-30, organized by the BYTIK Foundation in partnership with the Coordination Center - the 6th All-Russian Children's Conference "Smart World by Children's Hands". It enables students of schools, universities and colleges to present their projects related to programming, robotics, 3D modeling, web design, VR, AR technologies or any other engineering or IT disciplines.
