Laurie O'Donnell

One of the great jobs I have in LTS is leading the Scottish Learning Festival. The event is now in it’s 9th year and has evolved from being an exclusive ICT event into the major national showcase for Scottish Education.
SLF2008 takes place over two days, 24 and 25 September, in Glasgow’s SECC. This year the [...]

The highlight of last week was having my 15 year old daughter on work experience with me. Apart from exposing her to a couple of very long days commuting between Broughty Ferry and Glasgow I think she really enjoyed it (but probably not half as much as I did). Her week included:
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I was interviewed recently on Glow by Whitelight Media for Connected 20.
The questions came from our readers see below for my best attempt at answers.
Viewpoint: Laurie O’Donnell

You have been quoted as saying that Glow is the most ambitious education ICT project in the world.
How are we doing so far?
We are putting in place the [...]

If the findings of the OECD report are generally accepted then the main implication for LTS lies around the development of the curriculum. I remember reading a policy document many years ago (must dig it out, but I think it was from HMI) which made the claim that the main cause of indiscipline/disruption in school [...]