“Part of it is embracing uncertainty, being open to whatever comes up,” said Dangerous Ideas curator Karen Lawson. “It’s about a belief that everybody is creative, and helping them to realise that.”
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6400535
TES article exploring the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and how two primary, secondary and colleges from Scotland and Norway collaborated on an innovative online gaming project that developed new ways of learning.
The Scottish Education Awards celebrate the hard work and success which takes place in Scottish education. They recognise the achievements of people who dedicate their lives to children and young people and showcase the valuable work and innovation in Scottish classrooms and this year you can make nominations for the Creative Learning Award:
http://www.scottisheducationawards.org.uk/nominate/categories/creativelearning.asp
The deadline for submitting nominations is Friday 21 February 2014.
Thu 13/02/14 EDUtalk Keynote: 6.45pm GMT: Gerd Leonhard, CEO of The Futures Agency, ‘The future of knowledge, learning, and work’. Gerd’s biography and key links.
Radio Edutalk (http://edutalk.cc) is an online radio station and free professional learning resource, organised by teachers David Noble and John Johnston. There are no costs to listeners and shows can be streamed, downloaded or subscribed to anytime, anywhere via most web-enabled devices, including mobile phones and tablet PCs. Shows are broadcast every Wednesday and Thursday evenings at http://www.edutalk.cc/listen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rfvk1/profiles/frank-cottrell-boyce
BBC Scotland Learning will help produce a live webcast with Frank Cottrell Boyce on Friday 7 February as part of Chris Evans’ Breakfast Show 500 Words competition for under-13s. Frank is the author of “Cosmic”, “Millions” and wrote the Opening Ceremony for the Olympics in 2012!
Young people across Scotland are being challenged to find groundbreaking ways to address the country’s most pressing social problems. The Young Innovators Challenge is open for entries, with a new focus on social innovation, ideas which will help address some of society’s most complex issues. Entrants with the best ideas stand to win £2,500 and support to help develop their plans further. The challenge is open to all young people living in Scotland over the age of 18 in college or university education or on apprenticeship programmes.
The Call for Participation in the Scottish Learning Festival 2014 is now open and importantly there is a focus on employability skills – including creativity.
The festival will once again host around 100 seminars over the 2 days and you are invited to submit a proposal to be part of the programme. Deadline for receipt of submissions is 28 February. SLF 2014 will take place on Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 September in the SECC, Glasgow.
The Scottish Learning Festival 2014: raising achievement and attainment for all will focus on maximising educational outcomes through:
Full details of the theme are available on the SLF website.
My Place Photography Competition is open to all school age children in Scotland; it is FREE to take part in and is a great way of getting out and about with young people, getting into your local cities, towns and villages and exploring your very own built environments through photography.
Click HERE for more information on the My Place Photography Competition
The competition closes on Friday 31 January so make sure to register and upload images as soon as they are ready.
AYM believes that young people deserve the chance to fulfil their musical potential.
We help outstanding young instrumentalists in any genre with annual Awards from
£200 to £2000. Our funding is flexible: we want to help young musicians excel and
so we can support most major musical costs.
Receiving an Award is just the start of your journey with AYM – we do all we can to
help each young musician to flourish and grow.
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School story competition – promoting your school, community and Commonwealth values (extended deadline: 21 February 2014).
The BBC are looking for 3 schools – 1 in the UK and 2 from other Commonwealth countries who will make a film with the help of a TV crew, which best reflects the Commonwealth values and shares what it means to be a global citizen.
Winning schools will have their films featured on the BBC Commonwealth Class website www.bbc.co.uk/commonwealthclass.
The Commonwealth Essay Competition is the world’s oldest and largest international writing competition.
Run by the Royal Commonwealth Society since 1883, the competition is open to all young people who come from or live in a Commonwealth country or territory.
Entries for 2014 should be on the theme ‘Team Commonwealth’ and will be judged in two categories – junior (under 14 years old) and senior (14-18 years old).
All pieces of writing must be in English but can be submitted in a variety of formats, for example a poem, letter, script or essay.
Suggested titles include: You’re one of us now; What makes a good team?; and How can sport build peace in troubled communities?
Full details are available on the Royal Commonwealth Society website.
The deadline for entries is 1 May 2014.
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