Category Archives: Glow

Glow TV – Structural engineer Roma Agrawal talks about her work – 25 April

The Leaders Award for STEM

25 April 2014, 9.30

Register: http://bit.ly/1lPMcoB (Glow log-in required)

Roma Agrawal, an Associate Structural Engineer at WSP, will be talking to students about her career and her role in designing bridges, skyscrapers and sculptures with signature architects over her eight year career. She will then take questions from the students in the studio and logged in on Glow TV. Roma Agrawal is being interviewed to encourage students to engage with The Leaders Award for STEM. More information on this Glow TV event is on the Education Scotland Learning Blog.

Glow TV: Authors Live

The Making of Katie Morag with Mairi Hedderwick

28 November 11.00

http://bit.ly/I6gpyv

Mairi Hedderwick is bringing her most famous character, Katie Morag to Authors Live. Evoking the spirits of island life, Mairi will be telling her favourite Katie Morag stories, giving you an exclusive insight into what it is like to see Katie Morag being brought to life for CBeebies and telling you how the landscape and your surroundings can inspire what to write and draw.  Suitable for Nursery – Primary 3 or 4-7 years.

Glow Meet with the Queen’s Baton Designer

In November two exciting Glow Meets around Technologies’ will focus on the Queen’s Baton and its design. Join us on Tuesday 5 November (4.00-4.45 pm) to learn more about how William Mitchell and his design team  at 4cDesign effectively utilised science, technology, engineering, maths, art and design skills to create the Queen’s Baton and how you and your learners can be involved on 26 November (10.00 – 11.00 am) by considering your own baton design for your school or centre.

Register for the CPD session here or simply join us on the day.

For more information on all Glow Meets please visit the relevant page on Game On Scotland .

Find more information about the Queen’s Baton Relay, its design and nominating batonbearers here.

Game on Scotland – Glow TV events

GOS – Literacy Learning Zone

29 October 2013, 10.00

http://bit.ly/16uUlGC

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.

Find out more about this Glow TV series on the Game on Scotland blog

Glow meet with artist David Batchelor: Turning the ordinary into something beautiful

Glow Exclusive! Tuesday 24 September at 2pm

David Batchelor is an artist, born in Dundee and now living in London who is best known for his brightly coloured sculptures using industrial materials including light boxes from neon street signs, industrial dollies used to move heavy objects and items from everyday life such as brightly coloured plastic sunglasses and kitchen utensils.

As part of the Education Scotland Learning Experiences Catalogue, David will join us live on Glow from his studio in London on Tuesday 24 September at 2pm to talk about his artwork and answer your questions. To sign up for the event, simply visit Glow TV.

For a full schedule of forthcoming learning experiences and to find out more,  visit the LearnCat today.

Glow TV events

Sharing with Shetland – Higher Order Thinking Skills, 24 June, 15.45

http://bit.ly/142PY3w (Repeated on 27 June at 15.45.

Sign up at http://bit.ly/137Sd4t)
Children’s Services (Quality Improvement) are delighted to announce a series of Glow meet sessions to share practice around Shetland schools. Join Pat Brown, Headteacher at Mossbank/Olnafirth, who will share ideas about using philosophy in the primary-school classroom as a valuable approach to Higher Order Thinking Skills.

Assessment Community – Assessing Progress and Achievement, 25 June, 8.20 http://bit.ly/142Q6jv
Join the Education Scotland Assessment Team for a series of Glow Meets taking place in the Assessment Community. This early bird session looks at Assessing Progress and Achievement and will be presented by Anne from the team.

The M Factor Final, 24 June, 19.30

http://bit.ly/14kXGUU

Join the finalists in this year’s M Factor music extravaganza live from Dalkeith High School in Midlothian.

For full details of these and other events, please log in to Glow and view the current schedule:
https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/nationalsite/GlowTV/tvpages/Schedule.aspx
(Glow log-in and password required).

Look, Capture, Create – national Glow creativity project

Glow Learning Experiences – Week beginning 13 May

The ‘Look, capture, create’ interdisciplinary learning experience takes place over four weeks and is aimed at second level learners. Developed in partnership with Dundee Contemporary Arts it explores the use of designer/illustrator Johanna Basford’s exhibition ‘Wonderlands’ to improve understanding of the importance of Scottish biodiversity through skill development in art and design and science creativity challenges.

These experiences have been planned to coincide with Scotland’s Nature Festival and Walk to School Week. The first 10 schools to sign up for two or more creativity challenges on the Glow TV schedule will receive 20 black ink pens, as recommended by Johanna Basford and a copy of her latest book ‘Secret Garden – An Inky Treasure Hunt’.

The ‘Look, capture, create’ National Glow Group (Glow login required) provides more information.

Scottish Natural Heritage reports that it is clear that for 10-17 year olds the importance of the natural environment appears to drop with age. Around 30% of 10-17 year olds have some knowledge of biodiversity, landscapes and special places for nature, while significantly more claimed knowledge about climate change.  Young people are an important biodiversity audience both now and in the future. By engaging with them today it is hoped the biodiversity message will be inherited by the next generation and so on.

This interdisciplinary learning experience will give learners direct access to illustrator/designer, Johanna Basford, a storyteller from the Scottish Storytelling Centre, artists from the DCA Community and Education team and a scientist from Dundee University to enable them to explore a series of creative challenges to learn about biodiversity, pattern and relationships in nature, visual elements and enterprise. Learning experiences will focus on improving observation skills in art and science, developing a curiosity and love of natural Scotland and an understanding of the importance of biodiversity. These experiences will culminate in the co-creation of a design to promote awareness of the importance and beauty of Scottish biodiversity.