Consultation on National Digital Learning and Teaching Strategy

National Digital Learning and Teaching StrategyDr 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

 

Profiling : Tile Update

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We met with RM at the Scottish Learning Festival and robustly enquired to when the tile would be available. RM responded that they were being delayed by Microsoft who have to provide them with the code required to allow the tile to be included onto our site. They are expecting the code to be released this month (October) with the tile completed by November. We can only apologise for the delay.

However…it is very simple to create a OneNote document in Glow or on the desktop and pupils can then record achievements.  When the tile is available the pupils could continue with one they may have created or transfer to the automatically created profile when the tile is selected.

We have and are continuing to run O365 twilights this term.

If you require any further advice or help then please contact Jim or Susan

 

Scottish Learning Festival 2015

Dr Alasdair Allan MSPSheila 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.

Aberdeenshire team + Susan who took the photo

 

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

 

Teach IT Training

We have now purchased Teach IT logins for every school in Aberdeenshire.

Teach-IT is an innovative teaching and learning resource full of inspiring cross-curricular learning activities designed to make teaching engaging and learning fun.

Since its launch Teach-IT has helped over 25,000 educators across the UK to:

• Introduce their pupils to the latest web-hosted technologies
• Enhance their own and their classes’ teaching and learning
• Improve their own digital competence and confidence
• Foster students’ higher-order skills such as creativity and enterprise

Teach-IT introduces a wide variety of exciting technologies such as Google Earth, Games Based Learning and the latest free Web tools to help teachers to understand why they are so appealing to young people. Teachers are shown step-by-step how to use and apply ICT to bring the curriculum to life.

Please check out Aberdeenshire Events to register for a twilight training session.

http://www.aberdeenshireevents.org.uk/event

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P1 Pupil Glow Accounts

Please be aware that a problem has been detected with all our P1 Glow Accounts for pupils that attended an Aberdeenshire Nursery.

These accounts are causing an error and can be found in the School Transfer Log in the Management Console.

Seemis and Glow are currently working on a fix and once resolved I will e-mail all schools.

Until then I am afraid that calls cannot be logged for CC4 access or Glow access.

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Learning Resources in Glow or the Education Scotland Website

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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

 

Training

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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.