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Game on Scotland – Athlete’s Village Art Competition

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Have your art displayed in the Athletes’ Village by entering this exciting competition.

GameOn_art_competition Listen to what the Game on Scotland Athlete’s Village Art Competition is all about

The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games is committed to ensuring that children and young people are at the heart of the Games and what better way to do that than by enlisting their help to welcome our 6,500 athletes and visitors?

Game On Scotland is asking every school in Scotland to get their pupils to design posters to be placed in the rooms of the Athletes’ Village. We’ll guarantee to every individual school that takes part that their chosen artwork will be displayed in the village – your pupils’ work could end up in the bedroom of Usain Bolt, Tom Daley or any of the talented athletes coming to Scotland from all over the world.

At the end of the Games, athletes and officials will be encouraged to take your art as a gift from the people of Scotland and, excitingly, to write back to you offering their thanks.

REGISTER YOUR SCHOOL HERE

How it will work / key Information

◦Don’t start yet! We only need schools to register their interest now and we’ll send full competition guidance at the beginning of the new school session to those who have signed up.

◦The competition is only open to schools in Scotland.

◦Schools will be invited to run an in-school competition involving as many pupils as possible, selecting a pre-determined number of winning pieces (fewer than 10). Schools may wish to organise in-school exhibitions of their work.

◦The school should then send the winning pieces to the Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee. We will then arrange for the winning artwork to go on display in the Athletes’ Village.

◦Along with the artwork, we will also be asking schools to send us stamped-addressed postcards (one per winning entry) which we will encourage the athletes and officials to return with comments.

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Digital Storytelling – The Big 5!

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The Big 5 Listen to what the The Big 5 is all about

This is the Year of Natural Scotland! The Big 5 are out there! The Whiskered Diver! The Roaring Monarch! The High Flyer! The Curious Seadog and The Tufted Acrobat! Celebrate the beauty and diversity of Scotland by creating an animated adventure starring these Nature Superheroes! Get outdoors, look at photographs, ask experts and watch video clips and wildlife webcams to research the Big 5. Storyboard an adventure tale. Create models and sets. Collect and make natural superhero sound effects. Share ideas, resources and help each other solve problems. Use stop motion animation and editing software to bring the Big 5 to life and then have your Big 5 animation adventure shared with Scotland!

Select and organise ideas and information logically
Write an adventure story with great characters and settings
Use visual information to make models and sets
Explore and use animation software
Record and make sound effects
Edit, publish and promote your adventure tale
Appreciate Scottish biodiversity

Learners across Scotland
Industry expert animator Bruce Husband
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Scottish Natural Heritage

Educators learn more about this learning experience here

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Digital Storytelling – The Big 5!

Notes

If you are a learner, you can sign up for yourself. Please include your Glow username
If you are a teacher or other educator, you can sign up on behalf of a group of learners. Please include a list of Glow usernames
Email learncat@educationscotland.gov.uk for any enquiries.
A Glow Login is required for your submissions. If you have forgotten it or don’t have one click here.

Creativity, Educators, Technologies

Educators learn more about…… Consolarium Code Club

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Screen Shot 2013-05-30 at 16.43.55 — Scratch uses costumes to animate characters

Eric Schmidt, the Chairman of Google, recently highlighted the need for learners to be embedded in contexts where they are the creators of digital materials and the writers of the web. In his MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in August 2012 he argued that the learner experience with computer science in school as one that lacked challenge, demand and appeal and said, “Your IT curriculum focuses on teaching how to use software, but gives no insight in to how its made. That is just throwing away your great computing heritage.”

As you will know, Curriculum for Excellence has in some way made provision to address this concern by the fact that from Second Level onwards in the Technologies outcomes it is an expectation that learners will learn to a range of skills to enable them build their own computer games.

In order to help address this the Education Scotland Learning Catalogue will regularly feature contexts where the skills and understanding of computer game design can be explored and extended. Through the Consolarium Code Club we will endeavour to embed a culture of creation and not just consumption of digital materials and games design is one area that we intend to have a major focus on.

Our initial Introduction to Scratch 2.0 learning opportunity will encourage learners to join a pupil led and pupil managed learning community in Glow where they can gradually build the skills necessary to make a computer game using Scratch 2.0. They will be actively encouraged to access the community at school and at home (where access permits). They will be encouraged to become an active participant in the community and to ask questions when necessary, respond to the weekly challenges and upload their creations to the community. Learning experiences will focus on developing their skills and confidence in creating the digital resources such as images, animations and sounds and to learn to control how these behave by using code. Our planning document will help you see what we are planning for learners.

It may be worth noting that there will be a next steps Scratch 2.0 course in the term after the October holidays that will build on the skill sets and understanding established in the this learning experience.

Articles of interest

Colleagues may find this further reading about the worth and value and importance of teaching game design in school of use:

Mitch Resnick (MIT) gives a TedX talk about why we need to teach kids to code

Scratch: Programming for all Mitch Resnick

Reviving Papert’s Dream Mitch Resnick

Hope Livingstone Review NESTA

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Consolarium Code Club: Introduction to Scratch

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Collection of the week – ‘All the Seas’ – Tania Kovats

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All the Seas Listen to what the Collection of the Week- ‘All the Seas’ by Tania Kovats is all about

Do you live by the sea? Go on holiday by or know someone who lives or works by the sea or ocean? Tania Kovats is a British artist and she is inviting you, and a global network of people to take part in an artwork by collecting water from the sea or ocean and sending it to The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. The artwork will be called ‘All the Seas’ and will be part of a major exhibition of Tania Kovats work called Oceans which opens in March 2014 at The Fruitmarket Gallery. The names of all the people who have collected water will be included in the artwork to acknowledge their involvement. Share your photographs and stories about collecting water from a sea or ocean and help to tell the story of the artwork.

Email LearnCat if you wish to take part in this collaborative artwork and you will be sent a special label to attach to your bottle of water to show that you learned about Tania Kovats through Glow with The Fruitmarket Gallery.

Use different types of maps to locate key features
Respond to the work of artists by discussing thoughts and feelings
Create text

Learners across Scotland
Tania Kovats
Caitlin Page, Learning Programme Manager
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

Educators learn more about this learning experience here

Email the LearnCat to sign up for ‘All the Seas’ – Tania Kovats

Notes

If you are a learner, you can sign up for yourself. Please include your Glow username
If you are a teacher or other educator, you can sign up on behalf of a group of learners. Please include a list of Glow usernames
Email learncat@educationscotland.gov.uk for any enquiries.
A Glow Login is required for your submissions. If you have forgotten it or don’t have one click here.

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Consolarium Code Club: Introduction to Scratch 2.0

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Consolarium code club main curriculum area technologies

Introduction to Scratch 2.0 Listen to what the Introduction to Scratch 2.0 Learning Experience is all about

Wreck it Ralph in Scratch 2.0 — Game like Wreck it Ralph can be made using Scratch 2.0

Now, we all know that playing computer games is very popular with young people. Maybe you enjoy playing them yourself? If you decide to join the Consolarium Code Club you will begin an exciting journey where you make the step up from just playing computer games to learning how to create your own using an application called Scratch 2.0! Maybe lurking in your imagination is the idea for a game that might become the next world wide smash!

This learning experience is slightly different because it is not being led by educators but by the learners from P.7 at Newburgh PS in Fife. Join with them and get coding!

use the drawing tools to design the characters for your game
use the tools to animate your characters and bring them to life
create scripts that can control the movement of your characters
look at other learners scripts and modify (mod) these
share your work and be a support for other learners in the Consolarium Code Club

each other
other learners in the Consolarium Code Club across Scotland
the team from P.7 at Newburgh PS
educators across Scotland

Educators can find out more about our Introduction to Scratch 2.0 learning opportunity here.

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Consolarium Code Club: Introduction to Scratch

Notes

If you are a learner, you can sign up for yourself. Please include your Glow username
If you are a teacher or other educator, you can sign up on behalf of a group of learners. Please include a list of Glow usernames
Email learncat@educationscotland.gov.uk for any enquiries.
A Glow Login is required for your submissions. If you have forgotten it or don’t have one click here.

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Collaborative collection – Colour of the day!

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Colour of the Day Listen to what the Collaborative Collection – Colour of the Day is all about

Colour is everywhere! Join others to collect colours when exploring indoors and out.

Undertake a daily colour collection mission in September.

Photograph what you find
Discuss and name the colour
Upload your photograph to the colour collection on Glow.

How many different shades and tones of a colour can we collect? What name might you give the colour? How does the colour make you feel?

This colourful online collection will create a beautiful and varied bank of images that can be enjoyed and used by others in their learning.

Collect information
Organise and classify information
Interpret information
Use a digital camera

Each other
Learners across Scotland
Education Scotland Learning Team

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Collaborative collection – Colour of the day!

Notes

If you are a learner, you can sign up for yourself. Please include your Glow username
If you are a teacher or other educator, you can sign up on behalf of a group of learners. Please include a list of Glow usernames
Email learncat@educationscotland.gov.uk for any enquiries.
A Glow Login is required for your submissions. If you have forgotten it or don’t have one click here.

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Collection of the past – Archaeology – Colours of Buildings

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Colours of Buildings Listen to what the Collection of the Past – Archeology- Colours of Buildings is all about

Colour has so many uses. Did you know that you can tell the age of a building by its colour? Or that colours can tell us how old something is?

We’ll be looking at how we can tell the age of pottery we find in the ground just by its colour, how the size and shades of different buildings tell us more about them, and how you can become an archaeological detective by looking out for colours in your local landscape.

gather and understand historical evidence
share your evidence to create a collection of colourful historical information about our villages, towns and cities across Scotland

learners across Scotland
a team of archaeologists from the John Gray Centre in East Lothian
Archaeology Scotland

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Archaeology – Colours of buildings

Notes

If you are a learner, you can sign up for yourself. Please include your Glow username
If you are a teacher or other educator, you can sign up on behalf of a group of learners. Please include a list of Glow usernames
Email learncat@educationscotland.gov.uk for any enquiries.
A Glow Login is required for your submissions. If you have forgotten it or don’t have one click here.

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Educators – Learn more about ….. ‘Found Colour’

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‘Found Colour’ is an interdisciplinary learning experience developed for third level learners and is part of a progression of creativity challenges designed around the context of colour created in partnership with the The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh using the context of Dundee born artist, David Batchelor’s exhibition ‘Flatlands’ and his online portfolio.

The Found Colour Learning Experience Overview provides practitioners with an overview of the learning experiences using the NAR flowchart process and the publication ‘Taking a closer look at NAR’.

The Fruitmarket Gallery is a member of Engage and they work to promote access to, understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts.

Learning experiences focus on improving skill and understanding in responding to abstract art and undertaking design briefs collaboratively and creatively. This briefing paper ‘creativity across learning’ will support educators in thinking about creativity when planning for learning.

This partnership with The Fruitmarket Gallery also works towards improving confidence in educators to discuss and respond to contemporary, abstract art and overall by engaging with art in this way it is hoped that young people and their families will visit an art gallery in their locality.

The colour creativity challenges will be live in September 2013. Afterwards they will be made available as packs of learning, teaching and assessment resources in the Creativity Learning Channel in Glow.

This learning experience has been developed to work towards supporting the delivery of the Curriculum for Excellence Implementation Plan 2012-13 and the ICT in Education Objectives. Learning will culminate in an online exhibition of young people’s creativity. Using Glow to facilitate this experience works towards changing behaviours as identified in these objectives. The Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy revealed that learners need to increase their skills and understanding in group discussion. This set of learning experiences also supports the development of these skills.

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Found Colour

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Found Colour Listen to what the Found Colour learning opportunity is all about

David Batchelor uses found colour to create incredible sculpture, drawings and paintings. Batchelor uses coloured plastic sunglasses, utensils, pegs and even watering cans to transform the ordinary into something beautiful. In his drawings and paintings he does not mix colour but uses it as it comes – straight from the can. Inspired by Batchelor’s exhibition ‘Flatlands’ and his online portfolio investigate, explore, collect and create with found colour through a series of creativity challenges in partnership with The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. Create a collaborative ‘Flatland’ across Scotland.

Respond to abstract art
Experiment with a range of media
Use and combine visual elements to convey ideas in design work
Respond to a design brief to develop and communicate imaginative design solutions

Learners across Scotland
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Caitlin Page, Learning Programme Manager
Artists
Education Scotland Learning Team

The first 5 schools to sign up will receive a copy of The Fruitmarket Gallery David Batchelor publication ‘Flatlands’

Educators learn more about this learning experience here

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Found Colour

Notes

If you are a learner, you can sign up for yourself. Please include your Glow username
If you are a teacher or other educator, you can sign up on behalf of a group of learners. Please include a list of Glow usernames
Email learncat@educationscotland.gov.uk for any enquiries.
A Glow Login is required for your submissions. If you have forgotten it or don’t have one click here.

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Collection of the week – Citizen science – Earthworm count!

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Earthworm Count Listen to what the Citizen Science earthworm count is all about

Take responsibility for caring, protecting, monitoring and conserving the natural environment through citizen science. Get outdoors and collect real scientific data about earthworms and help scientists with valuable research. Complete an earthworm survey and share your pictures and stories to help gather important data across Scotland. How many earthworms will we find and what does this tell us?

Undertake a practical science investigation
Test the properties of soil
Prepare a sample pit
Collect data
Identify and classify examples of living things
Document learning
Protect your local environment
Value and protect biodiversity

Learners across Scotland
Scientists
Open Air Laboritories (OPAL)

Educators learn more about this learning experience here

Email the LearnCat to sign up for Collection of the week – Citizen science – Earthworm count!

Notes

If you are a learner, you can sign up for yourself. Please include your Glow username
If you are a teacher or other educator, you can sign up on behalf of a group of learners. Please include a list of Glow usernames
Email learncat@educationscotland.gov.uk for any enquiries.
A Glow Login is required for your submissions. If you have forgotten it or don’t have one click here.