Fabian Winter has been Professor of Education in the Field of Vision Impairment at the Zurich University of Teacher Education in Special Needs, Switzerland since 2021. He graduated from the TSVI program in Heidelberg and spent several months at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver as part of his doctoral research on dual-media use (braille and print). His teaching and research focus on braille literacy, instructions and diagnostics in the context of vision impairment, and access technologies. Since 2021, he has been part of a team adapting and standardizing the Intelligence and Development Scales 2 (IDS-2) for learners with visual impairments.
Kim Barber is the Manager of Braille and Large Print Services within the NSW Department of Education. Braille and Large Print Services provides equipment and alternate format materials to students with vision impairment within the NSW government sector, inclusive of braille, large print, audio and e-text. She has over twenty-five years’ experience both internationally and within NSW as a teacher, peripatetic teacher and assistant principal vision.
Kim is an executive for the Australian Braille Authority (ABA) and is the Convenor of the Sydney Braille Forum (SBF). Kim is the Chief Examinations Officer overseeing the Trans-Tasman Certificate of Proficiency in Unified English Braille and has served as the Australian representative on the International Council on English Braille (ICEB). Kim is passionate about advocating for accessibility, so students with vision impairment can have equitable access to quality education.
Dr Jodie Torrington
Dr Jodie Torrington researches and teaches in the School of Education at Macquarie University. Her research interests include technology-enhanced learning; in particular, maintaining agency with AI technologies and self-regulated learning in digital contexts. Jodie has published widely and is involved in research projects about AI in education. She has been part of an international advisory team on AI learning design, which was supported by UNESCO. Jodie is developing the AI-Locus of Control continuum, which has emerged from recent research findings on the impact of explicit teaching about AI literacy on students' agency and control beliefs in human-AI interactions. She has extensive experience as a primary school teacher, with over 26 years in the classroom. Jodie has been awarded an honorary fellow of the Teachers' Guild of NSW for her contribution to education. She is currently the manager of the Macquarie University Teachers' Learning Hub, developing and delivering professional learning for teachers, including about effective AI integration.