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Rainstorms and Symphonies: Performing Arts Bring Abstract Concepts to Life
Edutopia article on what happens when early elementary teachers integrate music and theatre - student learning improves in reading, math, and science as they become better critical thinkers and problem solvers...
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TED - The Creative Spark
Over 300 filmed talks on a broad range of creative themes by some of the leading speakers and innovators...
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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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Dribble - Poster Design Inspiration
Dribble is a show and tell archive for designers, and offers professional cutting edge example of design from around the world...
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Live UnLtd
Live UnLtd backs people aged 11-21 who want to change their world for the better...
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Quotes
“"The Creative Industries consistently punch well above their weight, outperforming all the other main industry sectors, and are a powerhouse within the UK economy...”
—Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Maria Miller
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“The high-skilled minority (characterised by their creativity, analytical and problem solving capabilities and communication skills) will have strong bargaining power in the labour market, whilst the low-skilled will bear the brunt of the drive for flexibility and cost reduction...”
—The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030 (UKCES)
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5 Questions For... Scottish composer Paul Leonard-Morgan
Creative Scotland catches up with Scottish composer Paul Leonard-Morgan whose latest work can be found soundtracking the music for the new Judge Dredd film...
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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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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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“Science and arts are not an either/or...”
—Creative Industries Federation
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Tweets
@ESskills Twitter Feed for Developing the Young Workforce (DYW)
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The John Byrne Award - Edinburgh only
The John Byrne Award presents sixth-year pupils with a unique challenge...
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Transforming Learning approach
An improvement approach that offers a suite of resources aimed at empowering transformational change and leadership at all levels...
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“I want us all to think about new and creative ways to … encourage young people to create and build and invent — to be makers of things, not just consumers of things...”
—Barack Obama, U.S. President
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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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Creative Thinking and Goal Setting - SCQF Level 5 (intermediate 2) SQA qualification
This Unit is aimed at developing: Creative thinking Goal setting Critical thinking, planning and organising, reviewing and evaluating...
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Creative Choices°
Creative Choices is dedicated to helping you develop your career in the creative and cultural industries...