About Matt

Matt is an education director, learning innovation leader and educational technologist. He has 10 years experience creating innovative learning environments, high performing teams and education programmes in schools, social enterprise and government organisations (most recently the new Hinatore Learning Lab at New Zealand's National Museum). Matt pioneered the maker education movement in Australian schools and founded an international games-based learning project. He employs emerging technologies to empower learners and build global learning communities. Matt is a Google Certified Innovator and Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert.

Media:

Education Technology Solutions: Creating a High-Tech Learning Lab in a Museum

We Are Museums: Why this museum lab generation is critical to learning

Core EDtalks: Mineclass - Student-directed, play-based learning

Kiwiparent: Technology & learning for littlies

Daily Edventures: After school innovation in New Zealand

Evolving Learning Space Typologies: White paper

New Zealand Science Teacher: In defence of flat-earthers

Dominion Post: Mind Lab helping schools teach practical science and technology skills

Prime News - Makerspace (Video)

Prime News - International Space Station Project (Video)

Google for Education - Case Study

CIO - Driving Future Learning, School Students lead international space station experiments

Focus Magazine - Matt Richards eLearning Leader

ABC - Bring your own technology to school

2013 K-12 Horizon Report (Pg 14)

Education Today - Heading into the education cloud

Australian Teacher Magazine - Chromebooks: Portals to learning, The issues and implications of Digital Citizenship

Port News - School at the front of technological revolution in the classroom, Cybersafety at the forefront at St. Columba, Port Macquarie's classroom of the future

Delimiter- Chromebooks for Port Macquarie school

Networks Asia- School deploys virtualised learning environment

Computerworld- School deploys chromebooks

Samsung- Advancing Digital Learning Using Chromebooks

Speaker:

Leading a Digital School 17/08/17
Transformative Tech to Empower 21C Competencies

Leading a Digital School 17/08/17
Global Learning Networks

EduTECH 2017
Creating a High-tech Learning Lab in a Museum

LoopEd 2/06/17
Supporting 21C Core Competencies with Educational Technologies

Future Schools 24/03/17
Museum EduTECH

Te Papa Talk: Virtual Realities 20/03/17
Transformative tech for learning

Blended Learning & Development Conference 8/03/17
Becoming a blended learning pioneer

Museum Education Conference 1/02/17
Learning Adventures

Imaging Forum 24/11/16
Innovation with VR/AR/MR

Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum Conference 31/08/16
Maker Mindsets

Leading A Digital School Conference 25/08/16
Maker Mindsets, Disruptive Technologies

SCICON 2016 13/07/16
In Defense of Flat-Earthers

Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum Conference 17/03/16
Implementing the curriculum

Openworld Edu 26/11/15
Minecraft for learning

ULearn 2015 7/10/15
Student directed games based learning

EduTECH 2015 2/06/15

Ed Leaders

ICTENSW 2015 14/03/15
makerspace

Connected Education Summit 21/04/15

Global Competence

Future Schools 11/03/15

ClassTECH & Young Learners conferences

AIS ICT Integrators Conference 17/09/14

Keynote: Live makerspace walkthrough

EduTECH 2014 3/06/14

Keynote - Successfully migrating school to the cloud

IWBNET- 7th National Leading a Digital School Conference 29-30/08/13

School in the cloud, Innovation in the cloud

PEIC- Digital Citizenship Conference 26/07/13

Digital Citizenship- Policy, Ethics & Identity

EduTECH 2013 3/06/13

Chromebooks & Google Apps for Education

AIS NSW ICT Management and Leadership conference 29/05/13

School in the cloud: Strategy, Infrastructure, Migration & Change Management

PLANE Festival of Learning 19/10/12

School in the cloud

CONTACT: sirmattrichards@gmail.com