Birmingham Conference

[Dan]

Is anyone going to the conference "Teaching Personal, Learning and
Thinking Skills in the new curriculum" http://conferences.teachingexpertise.com/cpd/plts/2/contact/tex
?

I'm thinking of attending as an exhibitor to promote our methods for
capturing evidence.

Dan O'Brien

[John Pallister]

Unfortunately I will not be able to attend - a hard-up retired chap
now! was quite interested/pleased with some of the quotes "The
Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills framework (PLTS) is the tool
the government has given schools to develop independent, creative
learners for the 21st century." [Mark Treadwell]

I would really like to hear what John Crookes, Head of Curriculum
Partnerships and Evidence at the QCA, has to say, he is going to "
give you an exclusive insight into the government’s vision on the PLTS
framework and the key stage 3 assessment reform. He will show you how
to embed the PLTS framework within your curriculum design and use the
demise of SATS to develop the creative curriculum that the government
is pushing."

Would be really useful if all who do attend would feedback? - spent a
lot of yesterday following the ALT-C conference via illuminate - will
try to follow some of it again today on http://elluminate.alt.ac.uk/index.html
- I did post a question, via chat, to the Becta Speaker about
ePortfolios, unfortunately did not get a response - she probably was
not watching the chat - there were no questions from the 'room'! -
assumption: schools must be doing all right with the new tools and
learning technologies?