What it teaches
Within the last few years, applications or “apps” have gone from being big software programs on computers to small and downloadable apps on mobile devices. This video explains what caused this evolution and how it is impacting our lives today.
Creativity and You! Embedding Creativity Across Learning – May 25, Glasgow Science Centre, 10am – 3.30pm
The Scottish Government, Education Scotland and Creative Scotland are working in partnership to deliver a national event designed to showcase innovation across teaching and learning in a range of subjects beyond the expressive arts. Directors of Education have been invited to attend together with teacher colleagues from different subject backgrounds.
Click here for more info
Remember to register your school’s activities…so far only three Fife Schools are on the map!
This year’s theme is ….”Biodiversity is Life – Biodiversity is Our Life”.
A whole week to celebrate the variety of life on planet earth, and its importance to our lives.
National Poetry Day is Thursday 4 October 2012, and the theme is ‘stars’.
During National Poetry Day, people all over the UK take part in a celebration of great poetry.
Each year there’s a theme – 2011 was ‘games’, 2010 was ‘home’ – and this year we’ll be exploring starry poems, from the night sky to fame’s spotlight. There’ll be stars on our poem postcards, dazzlingly starry posters to download and print, and shining ideas for teaching and activities.
From early August 2012, you’ll find the poems, teachers’ notes and posters right here. www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk
The Festival of Dangerous Ideas aims to re-establish the importance of dangerous ideas as agents of change in education – to shift the axis of what is possible!
During the week-long festival, in conjunction with Creative Scotland and partners, there will be a variety of activities happening across Scotland.
Mandy Powell, Institute of Education, University of London is looking for friendly inexperienced (re media education) Primary 3 & 5 teachers interested in using popular media culture in the classroom to pilot drafts of units of work being prepared for publication in the autumn. The units are being developed now and would be used over one to three days in the classroom. The feedback from teachers will influence the shape of the published resources. Anyone volunteering to try them out will ‘earn’ a free set of published materials for the school.
If you are interested in participating in this trial please contact Mandy Powell M.Powell@ioe.ac.uk<mailto:M.Powell@ioe.ac.uk.
Secondary schools are receiving a fantastic new resource today produced by Fife Contemporary Art & Craft .
Placement – Ceramic Connections: Wales & Scotland is aimed at Third/Fourth Level within Curriculum for Excellence, and particularly Art and Design and has many cross curricular links.
Click here for more info or alternatively download the pack : Placement Education Pack (Secondary)
Fife Contemporary Art & Craft also produced education packs for primary and secondary schools in 2011 which relate to a project they were involved with at that time; ‘100 Buttercups‘. click here for more info
As the title suggests, this is an artist’s book containing 100 drawings of 100 buttercups, all done by East Neuk artist Laurie Clark. This resource should be available within all schools or you can download it here.
100 Buttercups Education Pack (Primary) May 2011
100 Buttercups Education Pack (Secondary) Nov 2011
For more info, contact FCA&C on 01334 474610.
Positive and inspiring use of the internet is at the heart of the Childnet Film Challenge 2012. Childnet is inviting all schools and youth organisations in the UK to enter their challenge. Two separate projects are in place for primary and secondary aged children.
Visit Creativity Portal for more info
As part of the Year Of Creative Scotland 2012 we are asking members of the public to collaborate with us in the creation of a unique feature-length documentary film.
We want you to take out your cameras and record your own personal videos about Scotland’s past, present and future.
Project submissions are open from 20 March to 21 June 2012 and you can submit as many video contributions as you like.
We will then gather together all this footage and edit it into a unique, first in a lifetime, vision of Scotland in the Year 2012
Two day workshops are being held in Fife…click NLWorkshopRegistration to register.
