Education is a core part of Channel 4's business and, for the past couple of years, the Channel has been a major sponsor and supporter of the Scottish Learning Festival and TeachMeet, the unconference, as well as producing its highly innovative web 'programmes' like Battlefront, Year Dot and The Insiders that educate and inspire.
This year, in a nod to the Channel's ongoing Sexperience campaign, the education commissioning team will be holding a free lunch and set of seminars on how we can engage young people online in sexual education. Sex Ed Up is just one of the places I'll be hanging out over the coming few days in Glasgow at the Scottish Learning Festival. Sign up, and I'll see you there.
Wednesday:
12h30: Language, learners and the ower of new technologies
Looking forward to hear Ollie speak - someone I've never seen out of the confines of the 7-minute TeachMeet presos.
13h30: Thinking Out Of The (X)Box
You can find the notes for this presentation on my blog already, and take more time over the vids and games.
15h00: Discovery Hour: Inspiring Stories of Technology, Education and Design
Some of the highlights this year, told in short, entertaining stories. Includes an amazing SecondLife project from New Zealand. This is in the large expo area, so please drop in.
16h45: BBC Scotland Learning: Preparing learners for 21st century life
Wondering what our friends at the Beeb are going to do over the next few months.
18h00: TeachMeet08
My last TeachMeet for a while, and my last (ever?) as compère, it looks like I'll have to leave around 8pm for a working dinner.
Thursday:
09h30: Can Nintendo's Dr Kawashima impact on mental maths? An extended study
I'm keen to see the results of LTS's 500-Nintendo DS experiment across Scotland.
10h30: 21st Century Teacher: Your personal professional development network
Find out what basic online skills you need to acquire to understand
this virtual Web 2.0 world, and learn how Ewan created a personal
network of peer support across every continent. Importantly, learn some
tricks about how to cope with the rapid innovation on the web in 2008.
12h00: Discovery Hour: Inspiring Stories of Technology, Education and Design
Some more highlights of this year.
13h15-14h15: Sex Ed Up
How and when should we teach our children about sex? Earlier this year the FPA (formerly the Family Planning Association) and Brook - which provides sexual health advice to under 25’s - called for sex and relationship education to become compulsory in primary and secondary schools.
It sparked off huge controversy with critics arguing that this would compromise childhood innocence, encourage underage sex, increase rates of teenage pregnancy, abortion and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Sex Ed Up! will allow you to debate these contested issues and see some of the programmes and projects in the season.
14h30: Channel 4 Education Showcase
Showing off some of the amazing (and free) projects you can get your students involved in.
Pic 1: Misty Morning | Pic 2: SECC
Looks like you're going to be quite a busy boy!
See you outside the x-box...
Posted by: Rich | September 23, 2008 at 05:51 PM
Things I have to do to get a word with you ...
;-)
Posted by: chris | September 23, 2008 at 06:51 PM