On Innovation
I’m on my way to Inverness to speak to Highlands and Islands Enterprise STEM strategy group about how Glow might be used to support the teaching of science in some of Scotland’s most remote areas. To my mind this is exactly the kind of need that Glow was designed to (help to) meet. Glow is […]
Posted: October 29th, 2008 under Education, Technology.
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Scottish Learning Festival 2008
Just had a couple of wonderful days in Glasgow at SLF2008. We have evolved the festival into a showcase for Scottish education over the last 9 years and I think we now have a model that works pretty well with continuous improvement built in by design. This year the focus was very much on Curriculum […]
Posted: September 26th, 2008 under Education, Events, LTS.
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Ewan McIntosh: Teacher, Communicator and edublogger
I am in our Dundee office today trying to catch-up on a few tasks before the Scottish Learning Festival. It’s a beautiful clear day here with blue skies and the River Tay shimmering to a warm gentle breeze as my only distraction… well apart from email, the phone and a to do list that keeps […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2008 under Education, LTS, People.
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LTS in the Media: Computer Games and Learning
My LTS colleague and friend Derek Robertson (see Man From Uncle picture above) is once again in the news. This article in The Sunday Herald is another example of how Derek’s work has moved on the discourse around computer games in the classroom from ‘how much damage they do’ to ‘which ones can we can […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2008 under Education, LTS, Technology.
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Glow in the News Again
There is an article by Melanie Reid in this morning’s Times Online covering George Lucas’ testimony to the US Congress.
Under the headline ‘The Force is with Scotland’s School’s intranet, says George Lucas’ the articles goes on to say:
‘In what must rank as one of the most heady compliments ever given to an education system, the […]
Posted: July 16th, 2008 under Education, LTS, Technology.
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Glow Website Revamped
Our press officer Lee-Ann has just sent me a pdf of a small news article in today’s Herald with the above headline.
This is really the Glow section of the LTS website (or what we call the LTS Online Service). It looks pretty good and the new sections ‘Glow in Your Area’, ‘Glow in Action’ and […]
Posted: July 15th, 2008 under LTS, Websites.
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We-Think
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The second book in my pile of books to read over the Summer was Charles Leadbeater’s ‘We-Think’.
Charles is signed-up to be one of the keynote speakers at the LTS organised Scottish Learning Festival in September. The inside cover of the book describes Leadbeater as ‘one if the world’s leading authorities on innovation and creativity’ so […]
Posted: July 6th, 2008 under Books, LTS.
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The Scottish Learning Festival 2008
One of the great jobs I have in LTS is leading the Scottish Learning Festival. The event is now in it’s 9th year and has evolved from being an exclusive ICT event into the major national showcase for Scottish Education.
SLF2008 takes place over two days, 24 and 25 September, in Glasgow’s SECC. This year […]
Posted: June 3rd, 2008 under Events, LTS.
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Work Experience
The highlight of last week was having my 15 year old daughter on work experience with me. Apart from exposing her to a couple of very long days commuting between Broughty Ferry and Glasgow I think she really enjoyed it (but probably not half as much as I did). Her week included:
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Posted: May 31st, 2008 under LTS.
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Stephen Heppell
Started yesterday morning by running to catch the 0636 train from Broughty Ferry to Glasgow and ended it back at Broughty Ferry station on the 1730 train from Edinburgh. Rather then feeling tired at the end of a busy day I felt full of energy and even more enthusiastic about the future of education than […]
Posted: May 15th, 2008 under Education, LTS, People, Technology.
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