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Scottish Learning Festival 2012

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Recently Education Scotland hosted SLF 2012 – the largest education festival in Scotland.  Over 4500 delegates came along and benefited from the 100 professional development seminars, networking opportunities, keynote speakers and Scotland’s largest education exhibition.

SLF 2012 included four inspirational keynote speeches which were recorded and are available to watch on the SLF website. A selection of seminars from SLF were also recorded and are available to view on the Glow TV watch again service.

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The Scottish Learning Festival 2012

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This week Education Scotland hosted another successful Scottish Learning Festival.   Over the two days, they welcomed around 4500 visitors, hosted 100 seminars, delivered inspiring keynote addresses and facilitated discussion and debate in the round table sessions.

You can watch the keynotes and a range of seminars on Glow TV watch again.

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Finding out about Glow at The Scottish Learning Festival

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A key priority of Curriculum for Excellence is to improve the life chances for all of Scotland’s children and young people, through improving attainment and raising ambition. Fundamental to this is encouraging and nurturing creativity, to improve the self-esteem, motivation and achievement of our learners.

Creativity can mean different things to different people. For some it means being imaginative or inventive, taking risks or challenging convention. For others it is about original thinking or producing something new.

As CfE is being implemented across Scotland, practitioners are developing their creative teaching and learning as well as nurturing creative skills in learners.

The Scottish Learning Festival 2012 offers practitioners opportunities to learn more about the importance of creative skills for themselves and for their learners.

Why not come along to one of the Glow seminars at this years’ festival

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Speakers: Education Scotland, Microsoft and RM Education
Seminar Date: 19 September 2012 @ 16:15
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Speakers: Education Scotland, Microsoft & RM Education
Seminar Date: 20 September 2012 @ 09:30

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Speakers: Education Scotland, Microsoft and RM Education
Seminar Date: 20 September 2012 @ 13:15

Representatives from Education Scotland, RM Education and Microsoft will take you on a tour of the evolving Glow solution. You will see the new Glow Launchpad, RM Unify, which will give users access to Office365 for education, RM Books along with other popular application for the education community. This launchpad to the cloud will allow you to tailor the apps you see and use in daily learning and teaching.

Find out more on the SLF site here

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Games Legacy: Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games – Mascot Glow Meet

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Thursday 20 September (1.45 pm -2.15 pm)

Join us live from the Scottish Learning Festival on 20 September and be one of the first people in Scotland to welcome the Glasgow 2014 mascot which will have been launched that morning.

There will be an opportunity to meet the mascot, see the schools premiere of his animated short film and engage with his prominent friends in a question and answer session.

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National Creative Learning Network at SLF 2012 #slf12

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The National Creative Learning Network (NCLN) is a community of practice which has a leadership role in championing and advocating creativity in both formal and informal learning contexts. The Network is well represented at this year’s SLF, with members from local authorities across Scotland leading workshops and seminars throughout the two days of the festival.
Seminar Programme: Find out about the benefits of being involved in a Creative Learning Network at Fife’s CLN Showcase seminar. Or, find out what being creative means to Edinburgh’s young apprentices in the Creative Learners, Creative Thinkers, Creative Careers session. Visit the SLF website to view the full seminar programme.
Education Showcase: The Showcase programme features demonstrations, experiments, drama and music making with NCLN contributions from a number of authorities. To view the Education Showcase programme click here.
Creative Learning Networks: The NCLN consists of the group of coordinators who lead each local authority’s Creative Learning Network. Visit the Creativity Portal to find out who your local Creative Learning Network contact is: http://bit.ly/Creative_Learning_Contacts.


Find out more about the Creative Learning Networks by watching one of the short films on the Creativity Portal: http://bit.ly/CLN_Creativity_Portal.

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Cultural Village – SLF 2012 – #slf12

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Invitation

To celebrate the Year of Creative Scotland, leading artists from all disciplines have been invited to deliver artistic engagement workshops with children at the Creative Scotland stall during the Scottish Learning Festival.

The Creative Scotland stall in hall 3 intends to engage, inspire and inform. The programme of activities demonstrates the many powerful and positive impacts of working creatively to deliver Curriculum for Excellence and offers an opportunity to discuss the work and partnerships with artists experienced in working in education.

The attached schedule details the times, dates and activities of the artists. Please drop in and see excellent artistic engagement in action.

The Scottish Learning Festival is open for visitors on Wednesday, September 19th from 9am-5pm and on Thursday, September 20th from 9am -4pm. For further details about the Scottish Learning Festival and to register, please visit http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/slf/index.asp

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Scottish Learning Festival 2012 – just over 2 weeks to go!

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SLF 2012 takes place on Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 September in the SECC, Glasgow.The theme for this year’s festival is Creative Learning…Creative Thinking.The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning will give the opening address to SLF. There will be the following keynote speakers:

 

  • Professor Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership, Warwick University Business School
  • Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA
  • Paul Collard, Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE).

The full programme of keynotes and seminars, along with details of the range of additional activities, is available on the SLF website.

We will be there Showcasing Fife’s Creative Learning Network on Wednesday 19th September…come along and support us!

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Scottish Learning Festival 2012 – registration now open!

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The SLF 2012 Conference Programme and visitor registration are now available on the SLF website. 

The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning will give the opening address to SLF.

In addition, there will be the following keynote speakers:
• Professor Keith Grint, Professor of Public Leadership, Warwick University Business School
• Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA.

The full programme of keynotes and seminars, along with details of the range of additional activities, is now available on the SLF website.