- April 30th, 2010
Co-Create Projects
- Julia Fenby
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Throughout 2010 and into 2011, ten of Scotland’s leading arts organisations are working together with teachers, pupils and a range of partners to develop new approaches to teaching and learning using Glow. The projects span the art forms, target a range of levels, user groups and curriculum areas, and involve 18 Local Authorities across Scotland. They will demonstrate how the arts and Glow support delivery of Curriculum for Excellence.
There will be regular updates on each of the projects on the Glow Scotland blog. Here is a flavour of some of the activity that is taking place:
Imaginate (above right) is working with primary pupils and teachers in Shetland, East Renfrewshire and Dumfries & Galloway, and media company Screen Media, to develop and pilot an interactive online learning tool to support children in assessing and evaluating live performance.
Perth and Kinross schools, together with Plan B Collective and Horsecross Arts are exploring how creativity can support the transition stages. In the ‘Hooks + Bites’ project, participants will create digital art and sound works for an art bank on Glow.
Schools in Glasgow, Dundee, Stirling and East Renfrewshire have been invited by NVA to join its ‘Double Rubble Chip Challenge’ as part of ‘Sow and Grow Everywhere’. Pupils will be using Glow to explore the social, cultural and political aspects of food production and growing food locally.
In Taigh Chearsabhagh’s project ‘Walking within | Langass Wood’, an art trail will be created by artist and publisher Alec Finlay and poet Colin Wills. S2 pupils will work with them and other partners, including Scottish Natural Heritage, to create a letterbox walk for the woodland and an accompanying digital guide on handheld mobile devices.
Visible Fictions Theatre Company is working in collaboration with teachers in seven secondary schools across seven authorities, to develop ideas for webisodes (online dramas) and ‘live’ broadcasts from an online fictional country. ‘State of Emergency’, culminates in an intensive week of activity in November when S2 year groups will engage with actors-in-role, exploring dilemmas and themes connected with war.
Y Dance is working with teachers and pupils in Dumfries & Galloway, Inverclyde and East Dunbartonshire to create resources to support teaching and learning in Higher Dance. Their first Glow Meet today will bring pupils together to share their dance compositions in a Festival of Choreography.
More news on these and other Co-Create projects to follow. Watch out for Co-Create presentations at Scottish Learning Festival 2010.
Find out more on the Co-Create Glow Group and on Glow Scotland http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/glowscotland/sharingpractice/cocreate.asp
Co-Create is funded through a partnership between Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund.
Categories Co-Create, Curriculum for Excellence, Expressive Arts, Glow Groups, National Groups, Technologies
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