Many people say that the best film music is the stuff you don’t notice, that it is the servant of the drama and should not intrude. How likely is that?
I’m sure film composers having a night off at the cinema are incapable of not hearing the music. Is anyone who owns, say, over 100 CDs […]

The second day of the Scottish Learning Festival is over and I’ve had another great day.
I started at the Islay High: School of Ambition talk which Andrew Brown blogged: Ambition - island style.. An inspiring presentation the school sounds as if it is a great environment for learning.
Next I spent some time on the show […]

As the dust settles on the Scottish Learning Festival, the reflection and assimilation begins. Here’s why I think that Stephen Heppell is right when he says that this is the best Learning Festival in the world!
First a disclaimer: I really am not trying to win an award for the most ‘Categories’ on a blog post […]

If you want to get a great sense of why Scotland is perfectly poised to lead the way in education then you only need to look to her history. Ewan’s argument is that we have always been at the forefront, that it is in our nature.
Ewan’s presentation was first presented earlier this year at Alan […]

…after a thoroughly stimulating day and a long drive home. To be honest the “live blogging” didn’t really get going since between journeys between the SECC and the Science Centre events were pretty much back-to-back.
It was nice to put a face to some names I’ve known for a while and also to see East Lothian […]

In this podcast Tim Laver, principal teacher of History and Modern Studies at Bishopbriggs Academy, talks about the Consolarium, and the Crazy Talk animation application, followed by an explanation by teachers from Gullane Primary School of their Active Learning project.

In this podcast school librarian Heather Kirkwood highlights the benefits of the Red Book Awards. This project successfully encouraged reading throughout a large number of pupils from the authority. Heather discusses how the project can be used by others councils or even be condensed for use at individual schools.

The keynote address by Pasi Sahlberg, will be broadcast live on the Scottish Learning Festival website at 3pm.
Pasi Sahlberg is the Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank in Washington, DC. He received his PhD in 1996 from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is a former staff member of the National Board of Education […]

Motivation is a huge issue - becoming clearer and clearer to staff in schools around the country. The speaker for this session is Ian Smith – you can find videos and information with Ian on the Learning about Learning site – new this week from Learning & Teaching Scotland.
Deepen our understanding about motivation in schools […]

One of the biggest highlights of today was, for me, Derek Robertson of LTS. He is from the Scottish Centre for Games and Learning, and gave an overview of recent research into a number of projects involving ‘gaming’. These can be viewed on the new Consolarium website. I was particularly interested to hear of the […]