- February 25th, 2011
Only 1 week until call for participation closes!
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SLF 2011 is an ide
al opportunity to showcase the very best of Scottish education. Perhaps you are aware of establishments that demonstrate good practise and would like to encourage them to complete a submission, or maybe you’ve been involved in a new and exciting project internally that you would like to share with the education community.
- February 4th, 2011
SLF 2011 Theme and Call for Participation go live!
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The SLF team is pleased to announce that the Scottish Learning Festival 2011 will be taking place on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 September 2011. The theme for SLF 2011 is Curriculum for Excellence: Learning, Teaching and Assessment, Making the Connections.
The conference secretariat is now open for abstracts for proposed participation. For further information on the theme and details of how to submit a proposal visit the Scottish Learning Festival website
- October 15th, 2010
Scottish Learning Festival 2010
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With over 160 seminars, an innovative twilight programme and more than 200 exhibitors, the Scottish Learning Festival 2010 was the biggest and best Learning Festival ever resulting in nearly eight hundred more delegates than last year.
SLF 2010 has proven itself as popular as ever with the education community from both home and abroad. This year delegates travelled from as far afield as New Zealand, Australia, Paraguay, and all over Europe to attend Scotland’s most popular educational event. Closer to home each Local Authority was well represented.
The new and innovative Scottish Education Village layout proved a huge success with delegates who had the opportunity to speak directly to education specialists from LTS, HMIE, SQA and Scottish Government. Showcasing all the work that goes on within these four key organisations, the stand offered visitors the chance to interact and engage with all the latest technologies, with demonstrations from the Glow team, Scottish Government and the LTS Game Based Learning team.
- October 11th, 2010
Check out the photos from SLF 2010
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You can now see some of the photos from this years Scottish Learning Festival on the LTS Flickr page.
- September 24th, 2010
Keynote presentations now online
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Another successful Scottish Learning Festival is over for another year. If you missed out on any of keynote presentations, you can now watch them on the SLF website.
From next week you will be able to see photographs from this years conference.
- September 3rd, 2010
SLF Extra Glows Live!
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We are pleased to announce that SLF Extra 2010 is now live! The aim for this year’s Glow input is to bring you as much of the action as we can, right to your desktop, through Glow. There’s a sleek and cool homepage (in a very nice shade of SLF pink!) with links to all the important content that SLF Extra offers: you can visit the forum and discuss the festival before, during and after the two-day event; you can access the Glow Live Blog which, wait for it folks… will be bringing you LIVE footage from seminars as well as snippets of goodies from our roving reporters in the Glow team. We will also have the Keynote speakers LIVE from the Clyde Auditorium as well as feeds from our bloggers, tweeters and the budding photographers who will keep you updated through Flickr.
We realise that not everyone can escape from school to get to the festival itself, so we will make it our SLF mission to make sure you don’t miss out on the shenanigans in Glasgow. We may, ourselves, be worn-out at the end of the two days, but we will do our level best to wear out the carpets of the SECC as well. With sensible shoes on and cameras in hand, we will work tirelessy in bringing you as much of the action as we can and SLF Extra is where you go to find it.
If you are lucky enough to be visiting the event itself, this year, SLF Extra also has links to seminar bookings and the festival programme as well as details of the Keynote speakers and the conference theme. Want to know what’s selling-out quickly so you don’t miss out? Yes, SLF Extra can tell you that too.
- September 2nd, 2010
SLF 2010 – Less than 3 weeks to go!
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It’s now less than three weeks until the Scottish Learning Festival returns for 2010 offering a unique opportunity to discover what is happening in education across the country. As Curriculum for Excellence reaches full adoption across Scotland, SLF 2010 aims to provide the chance to find out about successful, innovative approaches to learning and teaching.
This year’s conference programme includes inspirational keynote addresses from Michael Russell MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Eric Booth, leading Arts and Creative Learning Consultant, Richard Gerver, inspirational leader and educator and Professor Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology from Newcastle University.
Spotlight sessions are available throughout the event as well 160 seminars over the two days. Host of SLF for several years, Heather Reid, OBE, will for the first time be delivering a spotlight session. Don’t miss your opportunity to come along and hear Heather talking about Climate Change as a Context for Learning. In addition to the conference programme, the exhibition will provide access to 200 exhibitors of educational resources and a whole host of features including the Scottish Education Village, the Health and Wellbeing Zone, the Education Showcase and much more.
As well as the usual two day festival new for 2010 SLF is introducing Twilight sessions; a full conference programme running until 18.30 on the Wednesday evening including a keynote address from Eric Booth, a number of seminars and the chance to explore the exhibition.
To book your place at Scotland’s key educational event and find out more about what is on offer visit the SLF website and register online.
- August 17th, 2010
Scottish Education Village (stands F40, H40, J30 and J40)
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Located in the heart of the exhibition, the Scottish Education Village will once again be home to LTS as well as the Scottish Government, HMIE and SQA. Bringing all the Partners together, this year’s village has a range of exciting new interactive features and gives you the opportunity to talk with staff from across the organisations.
Come along to the LTS stand and take part in an activity packed two days. You will have the opportunity to speak to the LTS educational teams about a range of activity in areas including Curriculum, Assessment, Glow and technology and Community Learning and Development. For the first time we will also host Meet the Team sessions on the stand. The stand will also feature a pupil lead Glow TV studio and games based learning area.
Education showcase
The Education showcase located next to the Scottish Education Village returns for SLF 2010. The Education showcase is an opportunity to see for yourself what’s happening in Scottish education. Demonstrating exciting new and innovative teaching practice, these sessions will be hosted by educationalists and young people from throughout Scotland featuring a range of activities that will capture the interest of all visitors to SLF.
Education Showcase Highlights
‘Diversecity’, James Gillespie’s High School, Edinburgh
Reflecting the school’s mantra ‘we celebrate the diversity that exists among us’ and international school community pupils from James Gillespie’s High School in Edinburgh present extracts from their annual ‘Diversecity’ showcase. Wednesday 9.30–10.00
Beauty and the Beast in French, Dedridge Primary School, West Lothian
Pupils from Dedridge Primary school in West Lothian will perform in French a play which they planned, rehearsed and performed when in Primary 4.The performance illustrates how the teacher has achieved links across learning within the areas of Modern Languages and Expressive Arts. Thursday 12.00–12.30
Find details of the various showcases on the online timetable, or just come along and see what’s on offer on the day.
- August 17th, 2010
Sign up now for one of our eight Spotlight Sessions at SLF
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As Curriculum for Excellence reaches full adoption, practitioners will be considering how they can develop innovative and relevant experiences for learners through planned activities which will lead to sustained, motivating learning and high levels of achievement for all.
Below we have listed all eight seminars over both days where inspirational speakers allow individual practitioners and educational establishments the opportunity to further develop their skills, knowledge and creativity to help identify their own priorities and develop solutions relevant to their own circumstances.
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Wednesday 22 September
Curriculum for Excellence and Glow 09.30 Lomond Auditorium Seminar Code L 1 A
Born to Fail – The Perfect Storm, Detective Chief Superintendent John Carnochan, QPM, Violence Reduction Unit 12.30 Lomond Auditorium Seminar Code L 1 B
Emerging Strengths and Challenges from the Review of Teacher Education in Scotland Graham H C Donaldson, Review of Teacher Education 13.30 Lomond Auditorium Seminar Code L 1 C
Why our Young People Embrace Technology to Engage in Learning, Prof Stephen Heppell, Heppell.net 15.45 Lomond Auditorium Seminar Code L 1 D
Thursday 23 September
Climate Change as a Context for Learning,Heather Reid, OBE 09.30 Lomond Auditorium Seminar Code L 1 F
Assessment within Curriculum for Excellence, Development Officer, Learning and Teaching Scotland 10.30 Lomond Auditorium Seminar Code L 1 G
The Evolving Role of School Inspection and Quality Improvement, Dr Bill Maxwell, HMIE 13.00 Lomond Auditorium Seminar Code L 1 H
How Do We Create Health, Harry Burns, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland 14.00 Lomond Auditorium Seminar Code L 1 I
- August 17th, 2010
New to SLF 2010 - Twilight Sessions
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Tailored especially for practitioners who would you like to attend SLF 2010 but can’t attend during the day, a full programme of activities will run until 18.30 on Wednesday evening.
Delegates will have the opportunity to enjoy a cup of coffee and slice of cake before exploring the exhibition and the key features being showcased and attending the conference without taking time out of the classroom. 
Join Eric Booth, Leading Arts and Creative Learning Consultant in a Keynote session when he will discuss Creativity as Catalyst: Manifesting the Potential of Curriculum for Excellence. A variety of seminar sessions will then be available for you to choose from including: Curriculum for Excellence, Glow, Health and Wellbeing, Religious education and many more.
You can access the Twilight programme online. Make sure you don’t miss out – register today.
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