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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Many of you who have visited the LTS Online Service and the SLF website will have seen the voting poll displayed during the Learning Festival and the week after.

As a snapshot view - the sample of votes cast showed your favourite feature to be:

•  Range of seminars - 43% votes
•  Networking - 21% votes
•  Exhibition - 15% votes
•  CPD opportunities - 8% votes
•  Others - 9% votes
•  Learning in Practice area - 5% votes

Among the Other votes - there was support for TeachMeet and the Keynote speeches.

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Recordings of keynote speeches for 2008 are already published on the website. Fiona Hyslop’s speech is available and others will follow shortly.

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On Wednesday 17 September, Glow users from across Scotland had the opportunity to have a live discussion with the Cabinet Secretary on Glow.  See a transcript of the ‘chat’ in SLF Extra. (Glow login required).

Any questions that remained unanswered at the end of the session will be transferred to the discussion forum and answered by the Cabinet Secretary in the near future.

On the discussion forum you still have the opportunity to exchange views, ask questions or share experiences about Scottish education that can be taken up by the Cabinet Secretary during her keynote speech at the Scottish Learning Festival. Technorati Tags: SLF2008 

Join the Cabinet Secretary in a live discussion on Wednesday 17 September from 5.30pm until 5.55pm to exchange views, to chat, ask questions, or share your experiences (Glow login required).

You can also submit questions in advance.  Any questions not dealt with on the day will have an answer posted following the event.

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Did you know the Festival is also taking place in Glow this year? Using Glow, you could ask your seminar, spotlight or keynote speaker a question prior to attending their session. Better still, you will be able to revisit the session recorded in Glow, and even continue the discussion after the festival has finished. Glow will also be the only place you can find ‘Conference in Pictures’.

If you have a Glow login - go to the SLF Extra tab in the National site and join the discussion.

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More pathway brochures have just come online.  Brochures now available for:

• Keynote speakers
• Glow
• Primary
• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Enterprise in Education
• Twilight session

All these brochures bring together a range of activities from seminars to Topic surgeries or sessions on the Scottish Education Village.

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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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Edited highlights from the keynote speech by Mick Waters are now available.

Sorry for delay in putting this on the website.

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