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Art and Design, Expressive Arts, Interdisciplinary Learning, Literacy, Opportunities, Social Studies, Technologies, Young People

Animation Competition 2014

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Red Kite Animation and Edinburgh Museums & Galleries have launched their Animation Competition 2014.
Deadline for Entries: end March 2014.
The competition is open to any schools or youth groups in Scotland who are invited to create an animation based on an imagined backstory about any object in the Edinburgh Museums & Galleries collection.
You might find your inspiring object at the Museum of Childhood, the Writer’s Museum or any of the other 12 venues and then imagine how it might have been used or what happened in its history.
The winning animations from the 2013 competition are currently in an exhibition at the City Art Centre on Market Street in Edinburgh. The exhibition is on the first floor and runs through until 12th January 2014.
Download the following documents here:
Competition poster – Competition Rules
At a glance rules – At_a_Glance_Rules 2014_HEADED
Rules in full – Competition Rules
CLN News, CPD, Edinburgh, Partnerships

Edinburgh Creative Conversation with Don Ledingham

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Creative Conversations are Edinburgh’s now well established strategic response to developing the Creative Learning Network for the City. They feature as a case study in the recently published 3-18 Curriculum Impact project Creativity Across Learning. This successful approach has been picked up by colleauges in other local authorities and Education Scotland. You help make them the success they are and your invitation to the next Creative Conversation on Creative Leadership is attached.

Creative Conversation Invitation – Don Ledingham – download the pdf invite

Date for your diary:

The first of the 2013/14 Creative Conversations will be on Monday 25th November at 4pm for 4.30 till 5.45pm with wine and canapes afterwards (venue to follow with confirmation of attendance). I am delighted that our Creative Catalyst this session is Don Ledingham.

Don Ledingham’s Creative Conversation is titled ‘Try a Little Tenderness….’ which may seem like the wrong song title for a session on Creative Leadership, but with Don as the Creative Catalyst, you can expect a few surprises! Don talks about forgiveness in leadership and about creating space for creativity and innovation. He thinks aloud and in public, challenging other leaders to open up and let go. He now works with Drummond International and will go global soon, so catch him while you can. No mere theorist, Don has been a Head Teacher and Director. This will be a memorable start to this session’s Creative Conversations. Coffee is from 4pm and the Creative Conversation will begin at 4.30.

As with all previous Creative Conversations, David Cameron will facilitate the discussion. You are invited to continue the conversation with Don, David and colleagues over wine and canapes at around 5.45/6pm.

Places are filling up very quickly – please email the address in the pdf  if you would like to attend and receive full venue details and confirmation of your place.
CPD, Resources

Sir Ken Robinson’s top ten TED talks

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Education legend Sir Ken Robinson picked the TED talks he loves — all full of insight, bright ideas and, of course, creativity:

http://www.ted.com/playlists/124/ken_robinson_10_talks_on_educ.html

Sir Ken’s top ten:

Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?

Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

Jose Antonio Abreu: The El Sistema music revolution

Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school

Mae Jemison: Teach arts and sciences together

Shukla Bose: Teaching one child at a time

Shane Koyczan: To This Day … for the bullied and beautiful

Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums

Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education

Art and Design, Careers and Pathways, CfE, CPD, Glow, Maths, Science, Technologies

Glow Meet with the Queen’s Baton Designer

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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.

CLN News, Uncategorized, West Lothian

West Lothian Creative Learning Network – Colouring Outside the Lines

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Friday 8th November 1.30-3.30pm, Linlithgow Burgh Halls, Linlithgow

Download the event flyer here: West Lothian Creative Conversation 1

West Lothian Creative Learning Network will hold it’s first Creative Conversation event on Friday 8th November at the Linlithgow Burgh Halls

Our idea is to offer a platform for anyone interested in the future of learning in West Lothian to discuss, debate and create. The structure of the conversation will include specialist input, updates from the residency project we doing this year and space to explore practical implementation in classrooms. We are aware of some inspiring creative teaching in West Lothian and we want to bring these voices together.

Our first conversation…

• …will establish a shared language and vision.

• …will start the debate by identifying the people curious about continuing the conversation.

Although we will be discussing West Lothian, this event is open to all as we know that similar conversations and challenges are happening nationally and we want you to be part of the conversation. Please see the linked PDF for more information, to book your place please contact Fiona Macfarlane, Arts Officer (Learning) on 01506 773873 or email fiona.macfarlane2@westlothian.gov.uk

Please book by Wednesday 6th November.

Opportunities

IDEO’s Creative Confidence Challenge

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How do we help young people retain and develop the creativity skills they naturally enjoy as children?

IDEO has launched a Creative Confidence Challenge to find solutions to address this very issue, inviting proposals for fun, inspiring, new ways to help teenagers and young adults nurture their own creative confidence.

Ideas are being sought by IDEO through a creative open sourcing process – they are seeking the best ideas from around the world, which will be reviewed, refined and evaluated. The whole process starts with the Inspiration phase, which is taking place just now, whereby people can share their own stories, providing inspiration for others.

Visit the Open IDEO website to contribute your own inspirations and ideas, and to watch as the process for selecting the best solutions evolves over the next two months.

Artists, CPD, Creative Practitioners, Opportunities

ArtWorks Scotland Conference 2013: Pioneers, Practice and Professionalism

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ArtWorks Scotland are pleased to announce that the full conference programme is now available to view online.

Highlights include:

Inside-out or Outside-in?
David Cameron asks how do we become more central to the way that we think about art, community development and social change? Do we want to work from the outside in, or the inside out?

The Past is the Present: Pioneering artists, pioneering practices & their legacies in Scotland.

Barbara Steveni: Some Principles of Engagement.

David Harding: Critical reflections on community arts to participatory art and all the rest in between.

You’re the Pioneer, You Add the Title…
Paul Gorman asks what is an artist if not a pioneer? To pioneer means to stray from the path, to uncover, to re-imagine. It requires a boldness and confidence. The path has been made by others – perhaps straying from it is our only option?

What do we mean by ‘Professionalism’? Presentations, conversation and Q & A
The work of artists in participatory settings often isn’t taken seriously, or regarded as ‘proper’ work’. What would it take for the practice to be regarded as truly professional? How can you show the work you do is of the highest standard? With Stephanie Knight, Kathryn Deane & Paul Gorman.

3 Pecha Kucha sessions highlight work by 16 artists and organisations from across Scotland.

Tickets can be purchased from the Citizens Theatre box office.

We look forward to seeing you there!

The ArtWorks Scotland Team

Image Credit: Ice Cream Architecture

CPD, Teachers, Technologies

One Day Digital for Teachers

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Digital Creativity CPD

Nesta, the UK’s innovation charity, are running a day’s CPD on digital creativity for teachers so they can teach young people the digital skills they will need in the future. Teachers can learn website development, computer animation, character design, video editing, app development, visual programming and how to design and print 3D objects. Teachers will get support materials on the day so they can use the skills they have learned back in the classroom with their pupils.

Nesta are working with a range of partners including CoderDojo, Mozilla, RunRev and Maklab to make sure that teachers attending get a real feel for how these technologies work and get a chance to work hands-on with them over the day so they are able to pass that on to their pupils.

The event is on Saturday 23 November at the University of Edinburgh.  For more information and to reserve place go to onedaydigital.eventbrite.com

CfE, College CLNs

Creative Learning: Innovations and Ideas from the College Sector

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Earlier this week, College Development Network hosted an event for the College Creative Learning Networks to share learning and ideas from their work in promoting creative and innovative approaches to learning and teaching.

Some really interesting ideas and priorities emerged during the discussion including:

a) the need to examine more closely the links between creativity and enterprise;

b) modelling how creative approaches can be used in more traditional subject areas;

c) extending and developing partnerships and links with the wider community and

d) ensuring that governance and leadership are aware of the centrality of creativity in policy and practice.

The event also provided an opportunity for attending Creative Catalysts to hear about  Scotland’s Creative Learning Plan from Joan Parr of Creative Scotland, and about Education Scotland’s Curriculum Impact Report on Creativity Across Learning from Sheila Page, HMI.

CfE, CLN News, Creativity Portal, Education News, Partnerships

Scotland’s Creative Learning Plan and Curriculum Impact Report on Creativity Across Learning published

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Exciting news this week as two important documents relating to creativity across learning were launched at the Scottish Learning Festival:

Published by Creative Scotland, Scotland’s Creative Learning Plan aims to inspire educational policy makers and practitioners to utilise creativity to benefit learners in schools and other settings.

The Creative Learning Plan is the result of work by a partnership of organisations working across Scotland in education and creativity and sets out an ambitious vision for creativity in education over the next 10 years.

Among the changes the partnership is aiming for are:

  • New policies and plans supporting creativity throughout Scotland
  • More creative teaching practices and support for creative initiatives within local authorities, schools and places of learning
  • More support for and understanding of the value of creativity and experiential learning by parents and carers.

Find out more and download the Plan here: Creative Learning Plan

Education Scotland’s Curriculum Impact Report on Creativity Across Learning sets out key findings from a review of current practice in Scotland and focuses specifically on the development of creativity skills in learners. It proposes a definition of creativity is and identifies a set of core creative skills or attributes.

‘Scotland needs to prepare its young people for life and work in an uncertain economic and social environment if they are to thrive in an era of increasingly rapid change. The need for a well-developed set of higher-order skills will be a key part of the toolkit they will need and the ability to think creatively will be one of the most important tools in that toolkit’.

Download the Creativity Across Learning 3-18 Curriculum Impact Report here:

Creativity Across Learning Report