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Connected Live Video 007: Down Under gives top marks

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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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It’s recording but not as we know it…

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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 […]

In The Wild

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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 […]

Scottish Learning Festival keynotes… on your iPod!

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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 […]

Connected Live Video 006: Discovering Gigajam

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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.

Mobiles phones: Constructive, not deconstructive

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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.

Connected Live Video 005: The Use and Misuse of Brain Theories

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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.

Connected Live Podcast 020: Final thoughts on the Learning Festival

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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.
See more about this podcast or listen to other shows on Connected Live’s podcast page. Or, you can listen by clicking […]

Connected Live Podcast 019: Young presenters at the Learning Festival - what does it mean?

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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.
See more about this podcast or listen to other shows on Connected Live’s podcast page. Or, you can listen by clicking the play button below.

Connected Live Podcast 018: Scotland’s most enterprising school

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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.
See more about this podcast or listen to other shows on Connected Live’s podcast page. Or, you […]