At September’s Scottish Learning Festival there are visitors from around the world. The next few podcasts reveal what international guests get out of the programme, and here an Australian representative points out that there are many similarities between the Scottish and Australian ways of doing things.
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A few days holiday last month allowed me to catch up with some reading I’d put aside for later. One such blog post concerns the future of the recording industry in the face of technological change.
It is written by Stephen J. Dubner - co-author (along with Steven J Levitt*) of the book Freakonomics - and […]

This was one of two Scottish Learning Festival events generously sponsored by Channel 4 - the other being TeachMeet07 later that evening. Connected Magazine covers the whole event, and asks for your comments. For me, there were three main threads running through the presentations and debates:

The recent UNICEF report in which the UK”s young people were […]

The keynotes for the Scottish Learning Festival have been made available now in a version that will play on your video iPod or MP4 player.
It’s a great way to revisit the rich resource that each keynote address provides. You can right-click (or ctrl-click on a Mac) each of the links below to download these to […]

Gigajam, available to all Scottish teachers and learners through Glow, provides exciting new ways to learn how to play musical instruments. See the video for the highlights of this new technology.

Sharon Tonner of the High School of Dundee has been experimenting with several new technologies over the past few years. At this year’s Scottish Learning Festival she talked about her positive experiences of using mobiles in the classroom. She’s now published her brilliant full presentation, including audio, over on her blog.

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.

Ewan McIntosh, National Advisor for Learning and Technology Futures, chats about why he attended SLF07, what he gained from the event and his hopes for the progression of Scottish Education over the next five years.
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Eileen Scott, Headteacher of St Peter’s Primary School, and some of her pupils reflect on their experience of delivering a successful presentation at the Scottish Learning Festival.
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Staff and pupils from St Peter’s Primary School look forward to their presentation at the Scottish Learning Festival. The presentation would be about how they achieved their Scottish Education Award for being the most enterprising school in the country.
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