Scottish Learning Festival News

The SLF team are delighted to announce the following internationally renowned keynote speakers for this years conference:-

• Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Fiona Hyslop MSP, Scottish Government

• Prof. Ferre Laevers, Director of the Research Centre for Experiential Education, University of Leuven

• Prof. Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

• Frank Dick OBE, former British Athletics Federation Director of Coaching.

Further information about the keynotes, conference programme and details of how to book will be available from the SLF website at the end of April.

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We are pleased to welcome:

The Merchant City Festival runs from Thursday 25 to Sunday 28 September, City Centre, Glasgow
For those of you visiting Glasgow for the Learning Festival, why not extend your stay to take in the wide variety of international performances and exhibitions that are in the Merchant City Festival programme.

There is an urban feel to the festival, that includes street theatre, music, dance, comedy and visual arts. In addition, there will be the return of the hugely popular French Market in Candleriggs.

 Download the programme from the Merchant City Festival website (PDF file: 4.5 MB)

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Described as an ideas generator, strategic adviser and one the most influential creative people in the world, we are excited to confirm Charles Leadbeater as a keynote at SLF 2008. He is Tony Blair’s favourite corporate thinker.

The New York Times anointed Charlie’s idea, The Pro-Am Revolution, as one of the 12 biggest global ideas of 2004. In 2008, Spectator Magazine described him as “the wizard of the web”. Charlie writes regularly for the Financial Times and the Guardian. In 2002 he was listed by GQ magazine as one of the 40 Most Powerful Men in the United Kingdom, in 2003 Accenture, the global management consultancy, ranked him one of the 30 top management thinkers in the world, and in 2007 the Financial Times ranked him the outstanding innovation expert in the UK. A prolific writer, Charlie specialises in innovation and entrepreneurship. He has written reports on entrepreneurship in knowledge based business, creative business and the public sector. Charlie’s current research is on new, open and networked approaches to innovation, a project which has taken him from Finland and Holland to Singapore, Bangalore, Shanghai, Brazil and Dubai, as well as the United States. That project is hot on the heels of his Atlas of Ideas report for DEMOS, the think tank, charting the rise of science and innovation in China and India.

His latest book ‘We-Think: The Power of Mass Creativity’ was published in March 2008.

For more information on Charlie, visit www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk

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We are pleased to announce that Professor Richard Teese will be a keynote speaker for the Scottish Learning Festival 2008.

Professor Richard Teese is Professor and Director of the Centre for Post-Compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning in the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Richard’s research is about how well education systems work and for whom. He has delivered many research presentations to educator audiences across Australia, with the aim of raising levels of achievement and to ensure good quality outcomes for all groups of students.

See further information on Professor Richard Teese.

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Short video interview with Pasi Sahlberg now available on Scottish Learning Festival website.

See the video archive of Pasi’s keynote speech, during which he shares his international perspective on curriculum development.

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Short video interview with Mick Waters now available on Scottish Learning Festival website.

Available soon – video archive of Mick’s keynote speech, during which he reports, from an English perspective, on the aspirational aim to make learning irresistible. He uses entertaining and insightful quotes and examples from school children.

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Short video interview with Professor Stephen Heppell now available on Scottish Learning Festival website.

See the video archive of Stephen’s keynote speech, where he challenges us to embrace new skills and build new learning environments relevant to the twenty first century.

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Short video interview with keynote speaker Michael Fullan now available on Scottish Learning Festival website.

See the video archive of Michael’s keynote speech, during which he outlines the six secrets of success” for Turnaround Schools, Turnaround Systems, is also available.

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There will be streaming video of all the keynote sessions on the Scottish Learning Festival website – live – as they happen.  Due to technical difficulties, the page may not display any other supporting information, and if there is no session taking place – you may see a black square.

The programme is:

• Michael Fullan on Wednesday at 10:45
• Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning – Fiona Hyslop, MSP  on Wednesday at 14:30
• Professor Stephen Heppell Wednesday at 17:00
• Mick Waters on Thursday at 11:30
• Pasi Sahlberg on Thursday at 15:00

All keynotes will be archived on the website. Blogging and podcasts relating to issues raised at the Festival will appear on Connected Live in the near future.

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