This blog was set up to capture our thoughts, ideas and collaborate on the potential educational application of some emerging technologies during our seminar at Stirling Management Centre.

The seminar was an opportunity for change & improvement managers representing Scottish Local Authorities, TEI’s and LTS, to advance our shared understanding of practical and desirable directions for future technology application in Scottish Education.

I would like to build on the success of our seminar by using this blog to publish some of my thoughts, but predominantly as a mechanism to share the publications and contributions of others that I find interesting and could help us develop the effective use of ICT to improve Learning & Teaching.

As an analogue native, I’m apprehensive about this step into publishing to the world, in particular, that I appropriately credit authors, copyright and IPR. Therefore, any good ideas will be someone else’s, any mistakes my responsibility, and the reproduction of any copyrighted material is not a challenge to the owner.

Day 1

10.00 – 10.30 Arrival & Coffee

10.30 – Introduction

10.45 – Capturing your thoughts

11.00 – RM Asus miniBook

11.30 – Group Activity

12.45 – Lunch

13.45 – Review of morning activities & comment

13.50 – Games based learning

14.30 – The Winning Game

15.45 – Coffee

16.00 – 1:1 Technology for Learning in Islay High School

17.00 – Social Media live

18.00 – close

Dinner at 19.30

Day 2

09.00 – Review & introduction

09.10 – Geotagging

10.00 – Virtual Worlds for Learning

11.00 – Coffee Break

11.15 – Workshop

12.30 – Plenary

13.00 – Lunch

14.00 – Close (afternoon coffee provided)

Welcome to the SICTDG New Technologies Seminar!

We hope that the next 2 days provides an enjoyable and engaging opportunity to collaborate on the potential educational application of some emerging technologies.

Presentations and participation opportunities on the themes of 1:1 Learning, Social Media and Games Based Learning will allow us, as influential change & improvement managers representing Scottish Local Authorities, TEI’s and LTS, to advance our shared understanding of practical and desirable directions for future technology application in Scottish Education.

LTS Facilitators: Andrew Brown, Alan Yeoman, Derek Robertson Ewan McIntosh & John Low.

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