Personalising learning using Glow

Curriculum for Excellence highlights the need to ensure that pupils achieve on a broad front and not just in terms of examinations. It cites the importance of learners acquiring the full range of skills and abilities relevant to growing, living and working in the contemporary world. The centrality of the learner is further stated as ‘they will enjoy greater choice and opportunity to help realise their individual talents’.

At this seminar you will be able to find out how Glow will support a sense of personal achievement for learners and how technology can remove barriers between formal and informal learning. Glow brings many of these tools to the learners and supports the key areas of communication and collaboration. Specifically this seminar will consider the following questions;

How do we 

• enable learning to be of real relevance to each child?
• ensure that learning is based on children’s previous experiences?
• encourage learners to see and exploit the interdisciplinary possibilities between traditional subject boundaries?
• support approaches to communication and collaboration to achieve this?

Martin Brown
Before joining LTS in 2007 I was teaching Geography in Angus. Much of my time is now taken up in working with Local Authorities across Scotland not just to deliver Glow training but to develop solutions for teaching and learning, with Glow, in local contexts. I am very interested in developing new approaches for embedding technology in learning.
I also manage to keep in touch with teachers across Scotland: through my work as a National Assessor and Advisor for the Chartered Teacher Program, which I have been involved with since 2004.

Bruce Murray
I graduated from Jordanhill and taught in various primary schools in Glasgow, East Lothian and Edinburgh. Before joining the Glow team I was seconded to the Professional Development team for City of Edinburgh Council, with a remit for developing teacher CPD experiences.