Scottish Learning Festival News

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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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.

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.

Young Radiowaves reporters will, again, be out and about during SLF, interviewing  speakers and presenters.

Pupils from 2 schools in Fife will record, edit and publish their interviews live from the SECC.  The schools were chosen from the winners of the End of Term Awards 2009.

Examples of previous work

Pupils were asked to create an audio documentary about environmental issues. They scripted, recorded and edited these pieces with music and sound effects.

• The Future is Unwritten: Rimbleton Primary School
• Don’t Break My Heart!: Kirkcaldy High School

We look forward to hearing the results this year.

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Another new function to assist you in the booking process this year.

After you have saved seminars to your wish list (using the link buttons on the right had side of the seminar web pages) go the the Wish list page.  Here you should find a list of seminars that you have selected.  Below the table is a link to save these details as an iCalendar file.

Once you have saved this to your own computer, you can import/upload/subscribe this file into your calendar so that you will be able to see all your bookings with their days and start times.

Unfortunately, at present, this does not work with Google Calendar, but is supported in Outlook, Hotmail Calendar, Yahoo! Calendar and 30 Boxes.

Further explanation can be found on our Online Service blog.

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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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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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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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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: