Dr Jim Fanning, Head of Strategy of the Digital Learning and Teaching at Education Scotland has organised two digital learning and teaching strategy conversation days – one in Aberdeen on the 14th October and then Inverness on the 15th . These events are free and I would encourage you to register to discuss the new Digital Learning and Teaching Strategy document.
Details of the days can be found here , including how to register for a place.
Join the Education Scotland Team on Tuesday 6th October at 4pm to find out more about Mental Agility at First Level.
In this session presented by the Education Scotland Numeracy and Mathematics Team they will be exploring Mental Agility at First Level and answering your questions.
Please click here to read more and register for the event
Dr Alasdair Allan opened the formal public consultation around the development of a Digital Learning and Teaching Strategy at SLF 2015. The consultation period takes place over 12 weeks, closing on 17 December 2015.
Education Scotland have set up a public facing Glow blog to encourage discussions around the strategy.
I hope you will manage to find some time to read the consultation paper and make appropriate comments directly on the blog that can be accessed here or by clicking on the image in this blog post
If you have read the paper and wish to respond to the consultation document then please click here
Sheila Marr, Moira Lawson, Ian Parkin, Susan Sey, Graeme Slapp and Jim Mclean attended the 2015 Scottish Learning Festival and put on their best smiles and shiniest shoes to welcome people to the Aberdeenshire stand in the Local Authority village. Thousands of people passed by with many stopping to talk to us about learning and teaching in Aberdeenshire. Our static posters highlighted Developing Technologies, Professional Learning, Learning Spaces and Outdoor learning, Integration and Inclusion, Health and Wellbeing, Work Experience and Business engagement and Raising Attainment. Our visual displays Featured Numeracy work from the staff and pupils at Kemnay primary, Digital report writing from Echt Primary and lots of clips of engaged youngsters from schools across the ‘Shire learning inside and outside of classrooms.
We saw colleagues from many schools who were down to see specific seminars or keynotes, and of course we had great networking opportunities with colleagues from Local Authorities across Scotland.
Dr Alasdair Allan dropped by the stand and spent time talking to Sheila Marr and Jim Mclean, following his launch of the Consultation paper on the development of a digital learning and teaching strategy for Scotland
A very busy three days, but lots of information gathered , contacts made and new exciting products seen.
See some of the video highlights here
At the Scottish Learning Festival HGIOS 4 was launched.
Click here for a copy
The BBC have released a short video of youngster talking about the Micro:bit computer. Please click here to see the video and read a bit more about this tiny computer.
Micro:bit computers have been ordered for all of Aberdeenshire S1 students.
Many hundreds possibly thousands of resources can be found in Glow or on the Education Scotland website to help in every age and stage of the curriculum.
Click here to access a professional learning resource that has been designed to support the vibrations and waves line of the development within the sciences experiences and outcomes
Or need a resource on Haunted Scottish Castles? Click here , if you dare !
There is a link on the Aberdeenshire Council and Aberdeenshire Staff Glow sites to take you to the National Glow site, where you can then search for thousands of resources
A number of dates have been added or are in the process of being added to to the Aberdeenshire Events web pages for :
Glow and Office 365 twilights,
TeachIT (in remaining clusters)
Tablets (Whole day Ipads in Learning sessions at Hill of Banchory) .
Please browse through the events we are organising and if there is a twilight or session that captures you interest then please let your line manager know and register online.
HGIOS 3 was published in 2007 and now some 8 years later the new edition is due to be published.
Please click here for some background information on the series and the new edition including some sample materials
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