Two days in to the new year, and already my mind is reeling at the eduthinking going on. In particular, some diagrams from two different sources may help clarify some of the issues that I believe education faces this year.
The first post of the 2008 from David Warlick has him thinking about the differences between […]

As I’ve mentioned before I post a set of interesting links onto LTS’s Masterclass community every week or so. Masterclass is still looking for new members. I thought that the links I just posted there give a fair flavour of what is going on in some of the educational blogosphere and that I might share […]

I am sitting on the train on my way home from Hillside school in Aberdour in Fife having just spent the day on David Noble’s course on Using the Social Web to develop the Four Capacities.
Aberdour is a pretty looking village and we had a nice autumnal view when we took a minute to look […]

Chatting to a colleague today who works as a Primary Music Specialist, I realised that I was slightly vague about their curriculum and at what age they might introduce any given concept.
Instrumental Instructors tend to view P5 beginners as newcomers to the language of music, when in fact they must already be familiar with many […]

Cross-posted at edu.blogs.com

Thanks to the kind people at Core-Ed the video and slides of my last ’season’ of talks on how all of us can lead education and technology change in our schools, Local Authorities and organisations have been put online for all to view. There’s also a Google Video without the slides.

Every time I […]

Sergio Della Sala’s one minute summing up of his talk at the Scottish Learning Festival.
You can listen to more detail about Della Sala’s research in LTS’s new Learning About Learning video-based website.

Educators and students from North Ayrshire Council, a Shetland school and Argyll and Bute Council share their knowledge and experiences at the Scottish Learning Festival on a variety of topics, including play and active learning for early years children, animation techniques, secondary citizenship and developing rich tasks for Curriculum for Excellence.
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Professor Stephen Heppell has been looking into the horizon with his feet on the ground for many years, and his inspirational keynote speech about where Scotland stands to gain educationally in its horizons is now live on the SLF website. There’s also a great video interview with him which takes you deeper into some of […]

Dr Merrotsy, a lecturer in gifted and talented education, talks about his work with bright pupils from disadvantaged and isolated rural backgrounds and his opinion on the Scottish Learning Festival.
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Representatives from three different educational groups introduce what each of their projects involves. Fiona Fisher of the Scotland China School Links Program, Bridget Doogan of Scottish Health talking about ‘emotional literacy’, and Margaret Sutherland of the Scottish Network for Able Pupils feature in these short interviews.
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