Scottish Learning Festival News

August 20th, 2009

SLF Delegate Pack

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With the start of the new term, it is time for us to mail your SLF delegate badge and copy of SLF News.

 To help reduce the carbon footprint of the event seminar tickets are not being issued this year. Your delegate badge has information about the sessions you have booked for and will give you entry into the exhibition and conference sessions.

Delegate packs will be mailed out at the start of September, look out for yours in the post. The mailing will also contain a copy of SLF News, which gives you all the latest information about what to see and do and will help you plan your day at SLF 2009.

You can view an online version of SLF News.

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August 19th, 2009

More fully booked seminars

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Here is an update to original post ‘Fully booked seminars‘.

The latest sessions to become full are:

• S1C: Leadership in a Time of Change
• E1G: ‘A Space Adventure’ – A Cross-curricular Approach Fostering Curriculum for Excellence Principles
• A2G: Curriculum for Excellence: Essential Features of Effective Support for all Children and Young People
• L2H: A Tapestry of Learning: Teaching for Understanding (TfU) and AifL
• N1B: Improving Learning – Improving Literacy
• C1A: Building the Curriculum: A Framework for Assessment
• D2G: Mathematics and Numeracy: The Experiences and Outcomes in Practice
• S1A: Outdoor Learning Developing Confident Individuals
• B2A: Exciting Writing. Closing the Attainment Gender Gap using Collaborative, Active and Interactive Approaches to Writing
• S1B: Engaging with Curriculum for Excellence – Small Steps to Success in Primary Schools
• B2G: Making Glow and Curriculum for Excellence Work Together
• E1Y: Interdisciplinary Project, 3-15, with the Main Focus on Science and Technology
• S1G: Curriculum for Excellence: Transformational Change – Pipedream or Possibility?

You can check on the website to find up to date details of fully booked seminars.

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August 10th, 2009

Spotlight update, session L1A

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Details of this session have been revised and it will now be presented by Ollie Bray, National Adviser, Emerging Technologies and Derek Robertson, National Adviser: Learning and Teaching Futures, Learning and Teaching Scotland.

The spotlight will focus on ‘Understanding the new learning landscape’.  More details

You can change your booking Edit your booking online or call the ticket hotline on 0870 421 1938.

August 10th, 2009

Seminar update, session B1A

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Details of this session have been revised and it will now be presented by Brian McLaren, Consolarium Development Officer, Learning and Teaching Scotland.

The seminar will explore ‘Professor Layton and the Curious Classroom: Learning from a narrative driven and puzzle filled computer game’.  More details

If you would like to change your booking, you can edit your details.

Change your details or call the ticket hotline on 0870 421 1938.

June 5th, 2009

New way to view the Conference programme

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Now you can flick through the Conference programme brochure in a page turning, interactive viewer. (Does require Flash player)

Hope you find it a convenient and helpful addition? Let us know?

Remember to register before the holidays!

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June 1st, 2009

Fully booked seminars

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• The first seminars to become fully booked are:
  C2H: Curriculum for Excellence Early Level: Developing a Common Approach to Learning across Nursery and Primary One
• E1I: Raising Levels of Wellbeing and Involvement in Early Years.
• A1A: Improving Scottish Education 2: Pre-school to Early Primary
• G1F: Interactive Approaches to Literacy Learning and Teaching
• B3B: Co-operative Learning with Young Learners
• B1I: Curriculum for Excellence Outdoors in Primary Schools: Using School Grounds for Active Learning

We are pleased to have already reached the point where seminars are beginning to fill up, so make sure you book now to avoid disappointment.

You can check on the website to find up to date details of fully booked seminars.

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May 27th, 2009

SLF banners for you

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If you have a blog or a website, please use these banners for the Scottish Learning Festival 2009 to help spread the word.

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May 7th, 2009

Registration goes ‘live’

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Visit the Scottish Learning Festival website, where you can now choose sessions, browse the conference programme and make your booking.

SLF is the ideal place for everyone involved in education to find out more about Curriculum for Excellence, the experiences and outcomes and how the change towards Curriculum for Excellence is being made across Scotland.

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April 6th, 2009

Keynote speakers 2009

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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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March 4th, 2009

Two more spotlight speakers confirmed

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We are pleased to welcome: