2711, 2014

Engaging with Scottish schools to promote STEM

Peter Murray
November 27, 2014
CfE, Primary, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills
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219

Engaging with Scottish schools to promote STEM 10am to 3:30pm, 2nd February 2015 Venue: Deans Community High School, Livingston The Commission for Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce states in its report that ‘a focus on sciences, technologies, engineering and mathematics (STEM) should sit at the heart of the development of Scotland’s young workforce’ and calls for long-term partnerships to be established between schools, colleges and employers to bring about significant change.

1311, 2014

Disruptive Innovation Festival

Peter Murray
November 13, 2014
CfE, Professional Learning, Sciences, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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230

Hopefully you will have had the chance to see some of the outstanding sessions available as part of the online Disruptive Innovation Festival which has been running from 20th October to 14th November 2014. For those of you that have not managed to catch any of the sessions or missed some due to other commitments we are delighted to announce that many of the events have been recorded and will

2910, 2014

Computing Clubs for Girls – Primary and Secondary!

Peter Murray
October 29, 2014
Primary, Skills, Technologies
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223

CC4G Free to the first 50 schools to sign up! CC4G – Computer Clubs for Girls – is a fully resourced scheme of work from e-skills UK, developed with teachers, supported by role models from leading employers and specifically designed to encourage girls to take on the digital world with confidence. The resources cover a variety of topics, from coding to e-safety, web design to music video production, are fully

3008, 2014

The E-CLIC Landscape Competition

Peter Murray
August 30, 2014
Expressive Arts, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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233

The E-CLIC Landscape Competition was announced on January 25th 2014 and will run until September 30th 2014. Participants are invited to submit an idea / project based on the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) devices and tools to face a challenge for the landscape, with respect to the principles of the European Landscape Convention. Participants can compete in one of three categories (Secondary Education Pupils, University Students and

2908, 2014

Series of 6 Glow TV Events with Engineers

Peter Murray
August 29, 2014
Primary, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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239

Meet the Engineer with Primary Engineers. This is an exciting series of 6 Glow TV events between the 4th of September and the 23rd of October from 10am until 11am to help support the Scottish Engineering Special Leaders Award with Primary Engineer and the Leaders Award for STEM. Ask your pupils the question ‘What would you do if you could be an engineer in Scotland?’ to help them formulate their answer

2208, 2014

Computing Science opportunity to work with Museums and Galleries of Scotland

Peter Murray
August 22, 2014
CfE, Professional Learning, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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209

Pilot project for schools, using museum collections datasets as part of the Computing Science curriculum: Museums have an untapped resource of rich data, relating to their collections, which can be explored and re-used in new and exciting ways. Museums in Scotland have identified digital engagement as a priority (see page 17 of One Year On: Turning Actions into Advocacy), with a focus on how to reuse assets such as

3007, 2014

Education Scotland Higher Computing Science Conference

Peter Murray
July 30, 2014
National Qualifications, Professional Learning, Skills, Technologies
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202

Higher Computing Science – Conference Report Background information Education Scotland held a conference on Thursday 29 May 2014 as part of the ongoing support of the new national qualifications. The need for this national event became clear following a series of meetings early in 2014 between the Technologies team at Education Scotland and the following local authorities: North Lanarkshire East Ayrshire West Dunbartonshire South Lanarkshire Discussion with the local authority

0206, 2014

Higher Computing Science Conference

Peter Murray
June 2, 2014
National Qualifications, Senior Phase, Skills, Technologies
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206

Computing Science – support for new national Qualifications Education Scotland organised and delivered a conference to support learning and teaching around the new Higher Computing Science on 29 May 2014. The main aims of the conference were to Examine a range of appropriate approaches to learning and teaching Exemplify a significant amount of new course content Continue to build a successful learning community for computing science Examine other areas for

2005, 2014

Scottish Engineering – Special Leaders Award 2014/2015

Peter Murray
May 20, 2014
Mathematics, Numeracy, Sciences, Skills, Technologies
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215

Leaders Award for STEM is a fun and rewarding way of finding out about careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). We also play host to additional Special Leaders Awards which run throughout the year, each having a particular focus. If you could be an engineer in Scotland – what would you do? We challenge Primary and Secondary school pupils in Scotland to research and interview inspiring engineers! This

3004, 2014

NESTA Primary One Day Digital Creativity CPD event

Peter Murray
April 30, 2014
CfE, Skills, Technologies
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248

Nesta are running a one day digital creativity CPD event for primary school teachers. Find out more about digital activities you can introduce into your own classroom. Choose from four workshops on website creation, animation, Scratch and Kodu. No previous experience is necessary. Date: Saturday 10th May Location: University of Glasgow To book go to onedaydigital.eventbrite.com One Day Digital Workshops Web development with CoderDojo CoderDojo is a global movement inspiring young people to