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Online Teaching Tools
Playday - the national day for play
Playday is the national day for play, traditionally celebrated on the first Wednesday in August...
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Research and Policy
Creativity: A Choice, a Gift, and a Mission
Edutopia article by Karine Veldhoen on the pleasures and benefits of being creative and how it applies to educators...
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Online Teaching Tools
Art Project
Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces...
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Online Teaching Tools
Young Engineers and Science Clubs
A network of over 430 science, engineering and technology clubs throughout Scotland, with a membership of more than 5,000 young people engaging in practical hands-on science and engineering activities to enthuse them to pursue a career in science...
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Online Teaching Tools
8 1/2 Foundation
8 1/2 Foundation is a Scottish-based not-for-profit organisation dedicated to introducing world cinema to children...
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Online Teaching Tools
Digital Makers
A programme to encourage and enable a generation of young people to create rather than simply consume technology, including the Digital Makers Fund to support innovators with bright ideas for significantly increasing the number of young people who participate in digital making...
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Research and Policy
Creativity and Tackling Prejudice
Powerpoint Presentation by Stephen Bullock, Development Officer for Creativity with Education Scotland, delivered to the Education Scotland & Renfrewshire Council national event: Tackling Prejudiced based bullying & Promoting Equality and Diversity It argues that the creativity skills, especially open-mindedness, are central to tackling prejudice and prejudice based bullying and are a means of embedding this agenda across the curriculum and challenging prejudice at its root, in the habits of mind of the individual...
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Research and Policy
Skills in a Nutshell
The National Parent Forum of Scotland Summary of Skills, published as part of their Curriculum for Excellence in a Nutshell series, lays out the basics behind skills across the curriculum in two sides of A4...
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Research and Policy
The TIME Creativity Poll
In partnership with the Motion Picture Association of America and Microsoft, TIME polled Americans about the role of creativity in the workplace, in schools and in government...
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Online Teaching Tools
Sound Editing in Audacity for Oral Historians
This course is intended for oral historians but may be useful to anyone interested in editing spoken word files (mp3, wav etc...
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Online Teaching Tools
Improving Gender Balance in Coding Clubs
A toolkit for encouraging gender balance that can be used to inform all voluntary learning experiences, clubs and Community Learning and Development...
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Online Teaching Tools
Get Into Live Music
Get into live music is all about working in the live music industry This site hopes to open your eyes to the huge variety of careers in the industry – and the different ways to get there...
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Research and Policy
Co-Create - Individual Case Studies Evaluation
Co-Create was a demonstration project exploring Glow's potential to support innovative approaches to learning and teaching through the arts...
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Research and Policy
Understanding How to Frame Your Creative Expertise
Again and again I see talented people with ideas they want to share – books they want to write, talks they want to give, businesses they want to launch – holding back because they think they "don't know enough" about their topic...
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Research and Policy
7 skills your child needs to survive the changing world of work
In his book The Global Achievement Gap, Wagner identifies seven core competencies every child needs in order to survive in the coming world of work: 1...
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Research and Policy
Creative Thinkering
A psychology based blog resurrecting your natural creativity through inspiring techniques and practical examples...
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Online Teaching Tools
Kist o Riches
Online resource containing thousands of oral recordings recorded in Scotland and further afield, from the 1930s onwards...
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Online Teaching Tools
What is Graphic Design Poster Competition
A collection of posters on Flickr submitted to a contest: come up with something creative or witty that visualises the question 'What is Graphic Design...
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Online Teaching Tools
Is this the best it can be? - self evaluation toolkit
a new toolkit that can be used by anyone delivering arts and creative learning through collaborative or participatory projects and programmes...
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Research and Policy
How to Inspire Creativity in Your Kids
An Expert Reviewed WikiHow resource that offers three different approaches to developing creativity in your children and learners...