AMES Conference, Glasgow, Sat 30 May 2009
Around 50 attended AMES' annual conference at Glasgow Metropolitan College. Keynote addresses on Visions of Scotland were given by filmmaker Murray Grigor and Professor John Caughie of University of Glasgow. They are available on YouTube. Just enter 'AMES conference 2009'.
My PowerPoint presentation on Teaching Juno can be downloaded here.
Frank Gormlie's presentation on Teaching Wall-E can be downloaded here.
AMES Conference 2008
Over 70 delegates attended AMES' annual conference 21st Century Literacy: Multimodal Literacy at Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor, Haymarket, Edinburgh. A stimulating keynote address from Andrew Burn, Institute of Education, University of London outlined the ways in which computer games can be used to stimulate literacy and media studies activities. My workshop PowerPoint on multimodal literacy can be downloaded here. Download multimodal literacy PowerPoint.
AMES Conference 2007
"Media Education and the Democratic Intellect: Media Literacy in A Curriculum for Excellence" was held at the Teacher Building, St Enoch Square, Glasgow on Friday 18 May 2007. Keynote speakers were Keir Bloomer, educationist and former chief executive of Clackmannanshire council, Professor Geoff Lealand, Associate Professor of Screen and Media Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand and myself. Around 90 people attended. The keynote presentations can be downloaded below:
Keir and I called for a revival of the notion of the Democratic Intellect which influenced the most progressive educational document ever produced in Scotland: the Advisory Council’s 1947 Secondary Education report.
Geoff Lealand reviewed recent debates around David Gauntlett's notion of Media Studies 2.0.
“Democrats are best produced in schools that are democratic in spirit and practice, and no school can be that if its life is too straitly ordered by external authorities, or its headmaster is autocratic towards colleagues and pupils, or the staff is authoritarian in its dealings with boys and girls, and leaves them no real part in regulating the life of their school community.”
Secondary Education, Advisory Council on Education in Scotland, 1947
