Tag: SLF2008
Scottish Learning Festival 2008
Just had a couple of wonderful days in Glasgow at SLF2008. We have evolved the festival into a showcase for Scottish education over the last 9 years and I think we now have a model that works pretty well with continuous improvement built in by design. This year the focus was very much on Curriculum [...]
Posted: September 26th, 2008 under Education, Events, LTS, Learning.
Tags: Glow, LTS, SLF2008, TeachMeet
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Visit to Ireland
I spent a couple of days in Dublin this week with former Becta Chief Executive Owen Lynch. Owen is working with LTS to benchmark what we are doing with ICT in Scotland against the policy and strategy of other countries across the world.
The Irish Government’s Department of Education and Science recently published two reports the [...]
Posted: September 19th, 2008 under LTS, Technology.
Tags: Dublin, Ireland, NCTE, SLF2008, The Digital Hub, Third Force
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We-Think
The second book in my pile of books to read over the Summer was Charles Leadbeater’s ‘We-Think’.
Charles is signed-up to be one of the keynote speakers at the LTS organised Scottish Learning Festival in September. The inside cover of the book describes Leadbeater as ‘one if the world’s leading authorities on innovation and creativity’ so [...]
Posted: July 6th, 2008 under Books, LTS, Learning.
Tags: Books, LTS, open source, SLF2008, We-Think, web, web 2
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The Scottish Learning Festival 2008
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 [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2008 under Events, LTS, Learning.
Tags: CPD, Curriculum for Excellence, Glow, LTS, LTS Online Service, Scottish Learning Festival, SLF2008
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