Campaign for a national technology strategy underway
Saturday, December 15th 2007 at 3.05am The Shaping Scotland's Digital Future campaign got off to an excellent start this week with a lively debate at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall. Video highlights of the debate are available via the Sunday Herald. Presented with the perspectives of the heavyweight panel, a 120-strong audience appeared to broadly accept our call for the creation of a far-reaching national digital strategy for Scotland. The tone was informal but distinctly businesslike, and it quickly became clear that my concerns over Caledonia's lack of future planning are shared by many in the great geek diaspora. I'll be publishing transcripts and proposals for further events shortly, but the discussions ultimately identified three critical areas to be addressed by our proposed digital blueprint: Education, Innovation and Infrastructure. I'll publish my proposals for separate symposiums on each of these in the new year, but please do let me know if you've got any ideas or suggestions as to how we should move matters forward. Printer Friendly Comment
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Posted: Saturday, December 15th 2007 at 3.05am |
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Digital Literacy in Scottish schools
I would have loved to take part in the event. However, at Learning and Teaching Scotland we will be looking for partners in a Media / Digital Literacy Summit in April. We've already got a large number in the education and mainstream media scene together to look at the issues so that we can set a long-term strategy for expanding access to new media and create better understandings on what is on offer. Please do get in touch - it would be a pleasure (and a necessity, I think) to have you and your colleagues on board!
This was a good event with some interesting points - especially the idea of a czar type - but I already worry that when it comes to the three key areas the excuse we will hear from the powers that be is the same old one "we can't afford it", but on education especially it has to go beyond that of the classrooms. Indeed I would argue that to an extent we should stop focusing on the classroom as younger people get technology: it's time to educate the rest of us.
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