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Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glasgow2014, Glow TV, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Game On Scotland – Literacy Learning Zone

October 17, 2013 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

29 October 2013, 10.00

Game On Scotland and the Literacy team of Education Scotland will present an exciting hour of challenges and fun around the Commonwealth Games. In conjunction with a teacher form West Dunbartonshire learners will engage in a number of stimulating activities using the Games as a context. The session will be interactive and no preparatory work is required. The target audience for this event is pupils Levels 2 and 3.

Click here for more information and to sign up.

Creative practitioners, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, glow, Numeracy and Maths, Opportunities, Primary schools, Science, Secondary schools, Social Studies, Technologies

Twig on Glow – volunteers needed for video editing pilot

October 16, 2013 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

Following the success of the Twig Summer Challenge, Twig On Glow are looking for classes who would like to try out our video editing tool. Twig Studio is a new online video editor that allows students to make films from scratch, using high quality clips as well as their own footage, voiceover and music.
A pilot of a new and improved version of the editing tool will start at the end of October and Twig are looking for Scottish schools to participate. The pilot will be suitable for students from P5 to S6.

If you think your class would be interested in taking part, or for more information, please contact Alex,amorgan@twig-world.com

Community Learning and Development, Creative Learning, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Creativity

Think Innovation Week: Fife

October 10, 2013 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

21 October – 25 October 2013

This week-long series of events is aimed at children, young people, parents and communities to profile creative & cultural industries; with a focus on study, career opportunities and pathways

Click below for the full diary of events and information on how to book.

Think Innovation Week Diary

Challenge, Community Learning and Development, Competition, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Numeracy and Maths, Social Studies, Young Scot

Young Scot – Money for Life Challenge funding opportunity

September 30, 2013 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

Applications opening soon for the Money for Life Challenge

Do you work with young people who have ideas about how to improve money management skills in their communities? Are you looking for funding to support young single parents, young people with disabilities, young carers, and other vulnerable groups? Young Scot are offering £500 grants as part of the Money for Life Challenge.

What’s on offer?

There are 50 grants of £500 available in Scotland through the Money for Life Challenge. This includes:

· £300 for your organisation to cover staff costs

· £200 for the team to help run their project

The Challenge is open to teams of young people aged 16-24 in work-based learning, adult community learning, training organisations, and further education, and is designed to help young people tackle money management issues, for example around poverty or welfare reform, in relevant ways.

How does it work?

· In collaboration with a project sponsor, teams of young people design their own project around issues that affect them. Last year’s teams addressed a wide range of topics, from camping on a budget to raising awareness of the hazards of payday lenders.

· As a project sponsor, your role is to help your team of young people identify a money management need in their community and help them develop their project plan.

· Each organisation can submit up to five projects to maximise impact and funding.

· Young Scot can provide a number of resources to support your project, including examples of successful projects, guidance on how to run your project, and dedicated application support.

Why get involved?

The Money for Life Challenge can fit into existing equalities and inclusion programmes, helping empower young people to develop the practical skills they need to navigate the changing financial landscape. Challenge participants often find that their projects have given them the boost they needed to be able to get a job or progress onto education or training. Feedback from the last two years shows that young people felt they had gained:

· confidence in their own abilities

· leadership, communication, and teamwork skills

· business and project management skills

· money management skills

What next?

The application deadline is 22 November. Register your interest by contacting Allyson Doby (allysond@youngscot.org) or phoning 0131 313 2488. For more information, visit https://www.moneyforlifechallenge.org.uk/.

Now in its third year, the Money for Life Challenge was created by Lloyds Bank. Young Scot and College Development Network are working in partnership to deliver the Challenge in Scotland.

Assessment, Creative Learning, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence

Brewstometer – new online creativity measuring tool

September 30, 2013 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

Creativity is increasingly recognised as an essential higher order thinking skill for learning, life and work. A new online creativity measuring tool,Brewstometer, was launched at SLF.

The Brewstometer introduces the principles of creativity and helps learners reflect upon and evaluate any creative experience they had recently, this could include a lesson, a workshop, a performance, a gallery visit or project.

As an online resource you can use the Brewstometer as best suited to your learning environment needs, whether it be a whole class or small groups or one-to-one. The Brewstometer has been developed by Creative Scotland and Education Scotland as part of Scotland’s Creative Learning Plan

CPD, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Opportunities

Dangerous June 2014

September 30, 2013 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

The Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2013 was delivered over nine days in June, with 30 CPD events offered in eight different geographical locations, in partnership with 12 organisations, which were free to anyone who was interested in the future of education. Please view the animated summary.

Plans are already underway for next year – please put ‘dangerous June’ in your diary for 2014!

Key themes will be:

Small nations, big ideas for education
Games for learning
Businesses doing it for themselves: If the trend is for businesses to offer their own degrees, academies and training, what does that say about state funded education?
Enterprising, entrepreneurial or excluded: What skills do young people really need?
Engaging learners: do lecturers and teachers have the required youth work skills?
Research: dangerous ideas from theory to practice.

Interested in holding an event as part of the festival? Visit the website and complete the Event Submission Form.

Got a dangerous idea you want to share? Get involved via Facebook, Twitter, blog andLinkedIn.

Competition, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Literacy and English

National Poetry Day

September 24, 2013 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

Scottish Poetry Library have announced National Poetry Day will take place on Thursday 3 October 2013.

The theme for this year is ‘Water’, and they are delighted to be working in partnership with Scottish Water to provide a great range of teaching resources to support.

Online resources are now available free on www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learn and include:

· a set of teaching notes for each poem

· a pdf poster of each poem (doubles as a larger print text) to download and print

· a pdf poster to advertise National Poetry Day

Scottish Water’s updated education materials, including a range of activity-based modules all about water for early, first, second, third and fourth level are now available free onwww.scottishwater.co.uk/education

Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Events, Glow TV, SLF13

Glow TV events from SLF

September 24, 2013 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

SLF 2013 – Technologies: what’s on the third horizon?

25 September 9.30

http://bit.ly/1eBgmI8

Come and join in a conversation about the future of technologies.

Hosting the conversation is Alison Drever, Education Scotland’s new Senior Education Officer for Technologies. We will look at how the curriculum, learning and teaching are evolving in response to learners’ needs in a changing world. We will look at innovation and its impact on learning and teaching.

SLF 2013 Keynotes – Wednesday 25 September

25 September 10.30

http://bit.ly/19sy9eO

Join us on Wednesday 25 September for:

Cabinet Secretary Keynote Opening Address – 10.30am

Hear the Cabinet Secretary, Michael Russell, deliver the opening keynote address at SLF 2013.

SLF 2013 – Glow in the Classroom

25 September,13.45

http://bit.ly/16sql9C

Glow is currently being used nationally in a variety of different ways enhancing the learning opportunities for young people across Scotland through interdisciplinary learning.

This seminar will look to showcase two examples of how innovative and creative practice is enabling young people to engage with Glow to achieve this.

SLF 2013 – Game On Scotland – the education programme for Glasgow 2014 and its legacy

25 September, 15.00

http://bit.ly/18QABJV

In July 2014 the Commonwealth Games, one of the biggest sporting events ever hosted in Scotland, will become the focus of attention for many people both at home and abroad. This session outlines the opportunities of the Games as a rich context for learning across the curriculum and the potential inspirations for learners of all ages and abilities. The workshop will include a presentation of resources and engagement opportunities linked to Game On Scotland and allow for a wider discussions about its content.

SLF 2013 – Glow is changing – see the evolving solution

26 September 10.45

http://bit.ly/14ywZyI

The past year has been an exciting one for Glow with the migration of user content and the introduction of new tools and services. Work continues and this seminar provides the opportunity for delegates to hear about these new tools and services and the roadmap for Glow.

SLF 2013 – Online professional learning communities on Glow

26 September 13.15

http://bit.ly/16AKqM0

Before the session, we will ask you to look at a short, online thought piece on Teaching Scotland’s Future.

During this session, we will discuss:

• how online communities contribute to professional learning; and

• how we can track impact of PL on young people’s lives and learning.

After the session, we will follow up on the impact of the seminar.

SLF 2013 Keynotes – Thursday 26 September

26 September 14.30

http://bit.ly/19w8pgf

Join us live from the Scottish Learning Festival 2013 for our final Keynote speech from Dr Pasi Salhberg, Director General, Centre for International Mobility and Cooperation, Finland who will be discussing ‘Finnish Lessons: What can Scotland learn from educational change in Finland?’

For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:

(Glow log-in and password required).