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2020 Vision: What should education look like in the year 2020?
On Friday 12th of June 2009 we are holding an [|unconference] on this theme.

To quote from **John Connell's [|Blog]**:

"//If you want to attend an informal, congenial, stimulating event in an amazing location with brilliant and insightful people (including you, of course), then pop along to the Education2020 UNCONFERENCE wiki and get your name on the list.//

//Not only will you be able to enjoy a great educational debate and discussion, you will also be [|travelling] to one of the most beautiful places in Scotland.//

//And please don’t feel either that you must have an abiding interest in all-things-techie (if it were that kind of event, I for one would not have signed up) or, indeed, that you need to be an educationist. The focus will be very much on education, but every perspective is important, whether parent, teacher, academic, education manager, or just an interested observer from wha////tever quarter!// "

The day will be held jointly in Islay High School and [|Bowmore Distillery]'s warehouse 4 (Training Bar) and the adjoining garden.

Attendants
Interested in attending? Just add your name below. In order for us to try to arrange some deals for accommodation, it would be extremely helpful if you could confirm in the last column. If you are unsure, then that's fine, just let us know when you know for sure!:

[|Cleanup Contractor] || [|robertisquires] ||  || [|Best Book Series] ||  || Yes. Arriving Thursday afternoon. Anyone care to join me for 18 holes at Machrie around 4.30pm? 2 locals can join you for a round after 4-30 Be careful though they are sharks. Call the school, ask for me and we'll set it up. John (if its you) I won't be at the conference now. The clutch in my car went on my way home last night. RAC took me home and my car is in a garage. Really disappointed as I had booked my accom, set time aside and was really keen to come along. Hopefully there will be another 20/20 next year. Hope you have a great conference. John [|San Diego Internet Marketing] || [|How to Hypnotize Someone] ||  || Yes ||
 * **Name** || **From** || **Twitter** || **Definitely**
 * attending?**
 * Y/N** ||
 * [|Ian Stuart] || Islay High School || [|IslayIan] || Y ||
 * [|Andy Wallis] || Islay High School || [|andywallis] || Y ||
 * [|Alan Stewart] || Coming independently. || [|atstewart] || Y Th or Fri - Sun ||
 * [|Theo Kuechel] || Moniaive & Otley || [|theokk] || Y thur-sun ||
 * [|Andrew Brown] || Learning and Teaching Scotland || [|whereisab] || Yes ||
 * [|Andy Black] || Becta || [|andyjb] || no but following ||
 * [|Ollie Bray] || Learning and Teaching Scotland || [|olliebray] || Yes ||
 * [|John Connell] || Cisco Systems || [|JConnell] || Yes - Thur to Sat ||
 * [|Jaye Richards] || Cathkin High School || [|jayerichards] || Y Fri -Sat. coming from Glas&space in car for 2 ||
 * [|David Muir] || Jordanhill, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow || [|DavidDMuir] || Curses! Can't get to any of it now. :-( ||
 * [|Hilery Williams] || East Lothian Council ||  || Y; Thurs - Sun. ||
 * [|Katie Barrowman] || Learning and Teaching Scotland || [|katiebarrowman] || Y ||
 * [|Sean McDougall] || Stakeholder Design ||  ||   ||
 * [|Krysia Smyth] || Design and Technology teacher working for the SQA || [|krysiaS] || Y ||
 * [|Alan Parkinson] || Geographical Association Curriculum Development Leader (Secondary) || [|GeoBlogs] || Y ||
 * [|David Noble] || Hillside School, Aberdour || [|Parslad] || Y ||
 * [|Andrew Watt] || The Rectory School, Connecticut || [|ABWatt] ||  ||
 * [|Doug Semple] || The High School of Glasgow || [|ictmaverick] ||  ||
 * [|Con Morris] || National CPD Team || [|cpdscotsman] || Y ||
 * Robert Squires || University of Montana
 * Ben Plouviez || Scottish Government (personal capacity!) || [|BenPlouviez] ||  ||
 * [|Noel Jenkins] || Court Fields Community School || [|noeljenkins] || Y ||
 * [|Stuart Meldrum] || Hawick High School, Scottish Borders || [|stuartmeldrum] || Y ||
 * Alistair Mooney || [|BBC Scotland Learning] || [|alimony] || Y ||
 * Lynda Macdonald || Lloyds Pharmacy / interest in Tarbert Academy ||  || Y ||
 * [|Armin Grewe] || Blogger, citizen, school volunteer || [|islayblog] || Y ||
 * [|Bob Hill] || Dundee City Council but in personal capacity || [|robthill] || Y ||
 * John Cuthell || MirandaNet || [|johncuthell] || Wed-Mon ||
 * Bruce Murray || RM ||  ||   ||
 * < Stephanie Disbury ||< Thurso High School ||< [|SDisbury] ||< Y ||
 * Martyn Ware || Scottish Qualifications Authority || [|MartynJWare] || Y ||
 * Jane Hollin || Quest (Learning & Development) || [|jehollin] || Yes Thurs - Sunday ||
 * [|John Daly] || Primary Teacher, East Dunbartonshire. || [|dalzinho] ||  ||
 * Maureen Park || English Teacher, Glasgow ||  || Y ||
 * J Arrol || Teacher || [|jarrol] || Yes ||
 * Val Vannet || High School of Dundee || [|ValVannet] ||  ||
 * [|Robert Jones] || North Berwick High School || [|jonesieboy] || Yes ||
 * Steven Grier || Microsoft ||  || Yes ||
 * David Gilmour || East Lothian Education || [|dgilmour] || Yes ||
 * [|Alan Britton] || Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow ||  || Yes ||
 * John McTaggart || Modernityscotland
 * Gordon Brown || Scottish Qualifications Authority || gbrown057@aol.com || Yes Thu-Sat Lochside ||
 * Robert Grant || Argyll & Bute Council ||  || Yes ||
 * Angela Grant || HT Tighnabruaich PS ||  || Yes ||
 * Caroline Stuart || Port Charlotte PS || [|Bath and Beauty Center] || Yes ||
 * Frank Crawford || HMIe ||  || Yes ||
 * John Heffernan || NCTE (but under own steam) || [|johnmayo] || Yes- confirmed travel details ||
 * Lynne Horn || Tobermory High School || [|lynnehorn] || Def if I can sort out accommodation + ferrie ||
 * Alan Beresford || Islay HS [|Best book series] ||  || Yes ||
 * Janice MacRea || Port Ellen PS || [| wedding photographers in Miami] || Yes ||
 * Anna Rossvoll || Aberdeenshire Council
 * Derek Robertson || LTScotland ||  || Yes ||
 * Liz Cunningham || Islay HS ||  || Yes ||
 * John Redpath || Islay HS ||  || Yes ||
 * Mike Senior || Islay resident ||  || Yes ||
 * Marian Senior || Islay HS ||  || Yes ||
 * Louise Jones || Attending as little old me! || __ [|goodonskis] __ || Yes Fri, Sat & Sun! ||
 * Julia Fenby || Learning and Teaching Scotland || [|juliafenby] || Yes ||

Possible Structure for the Day
As we are ruled by the heartbeat of transport links therefore, the structure of the day is also ruled by this. What this means is that there are several possible arrival times. This means that we proposing 3 possible levels of involvement.


 * **Methods of transport** || **Arrival time** || **Positives** || **Negatives** ||
 * Flight in Glasgow on thursday || 6PM || Get time to enjoy Islay || Extra nights accomodation ||
 * 7AM ferry, Kennacraig || 9-15AM || Get to take part in the whole day || Leave Glasgow at 4AM ||
 * 8-20AM Flight, Glasgow || 9AM || Get to take part in the whole day || Can be expensive ||
 * 9-45AM Ferry, Kennacraig || 12-30PM || Not as early a start from Glasgow, 7AM || You'll miss seeing a full tour of the school ||
 * 2PM Flight || 2-30PM || Cheapest Flight || You'll miss most of the school activities ||
 * 12-50 Ferry || 3PM || No Early start || You'll miss all the school activities ||

Therefore it is proposed that the timetable of the day will look something like this:


 * **Time** || **Activity** ||
 * 10am || Tour of Islay High School, witnessing the implementation of ICT across the curriculum and the roll out of [|UMPCs]. Also how IHS has removed the age and stage restrictions from [|certificated courses]. ||
 * 1pm || Lunch. ||
 * 2pm || Participation in various programmes within the informal curriculum that takes place in IHS OR **people go and book in Accom get to see a little of the island** ||
 * 3.30pm || Tours of Bowmore distillery. In groups of 12 ||
 * 5pm - late || Education 2020 Unconference ||

Structure of the Unconference
After much discussion both in real life and virtually through Twitter, we have decided to opt for a Knowledge Cafe format. We feel that this will ensure that everyone has a voice and that everyone will get heard. It will also mean that the unconference will be carried out through conversation rather than a form of show and tell! At present we have 40 people who have confirmed that they will be in attendance and we aim that this should constitute 5 groups.

We have gone through what folk have posted on the message wall and we feel that the below areas of interest should cover what people wish to discuss:
 * Assessment
 * Future Spaces
 * Learning for All
 * Relevance of Skills

As a starting point, these themes will be addressed by asking the following questions:

What do we want by 2020? How do we get there? What obstacles do we envisage?

Obviously, the approach to these areas is flexible with respect to what YOU want to talk about! However, we feel that this should provide a starting block. Each group will have 20 minutes to chat about one of the themes and then the group will reconvene for 10 minutes to discuss that theme at large. This will be repeated until all themes have been covered. Inbetween the themes some videos will be shown from individuals who have kindly offered to provide us with a small video of what their vision of education in 2020 is - we are sure that these will spark a lot of debates. Those individuals who will be part of the Flash Meeting will be included in this structure and there thoughts will be projected onto a screen in the [|room].

During the sessions people will also get the chance to feed themselves via the wonderful BBQ that will be serving some of the finest local seafood and meat, and there will also be a help yourself bar! There will also be various opportunities for some musical highlights which [|make it simple] will be provided by those fine delegates who are bringing an array of instruments with them!

If you want to include anything else in this schedule, like a [|guide to buying GPS], please feel free to edit accordingly.

Recording Audio / Video
How about people bring along any voice recorders they have and have these available for people to record two minute "thoughts" on what they have just heard. For example if people are chatting about assessment they might want to nip off and rather than jotting down notes, just record a few thoughts on what they have just discussed......

A couple of pupils from the High School will be filming any willing attendees who wish to [|comment] on their vision for education in 2020. These will be posted up on Vimeo after the event.

=Getting to Islay=

[|FlyBe] fly from Glasgow International to Islay Airport. There are three flights a day to the island. Flying time is approximately 30mins.

[|Caledonian MacBrayne] operate the ferry to Islay from [|Kennacraig]. There are three sailings a day. Allow 3 hours before sailing to drive from Glasgow.

=Accommodation=

Please find a detailed and comprehensive list of places to stay on the island here: http://www.islayinfo.com/islay_hotels.html

If you have any concerns about where to stay, please feel free to ask. Islay is a fairly large Island but it does not take too long to get between places. Though the event is in Bowmore staying elsewhere will not be a problem. Ian lives in Port Charlotte and will definitely be ending the evening in the Port Charlotte Hotel. This is about 50m from the Islay Youth Hostel.

Camping/Youth Hostel
Port Ellen camping will be extrememly busy and noisy because of the Beach Rugby but that could be what you're looking for. [|Port Mor] in Port Charlotte is an excellent campsite [|Islay Youth Hostel], Port Charlotte, is excellent accomodation. With at least one particpant already booked in here

B&B's
[|Lambeth House] is not far from the School [|Kitchen Cabinets Vancouver] [|Sornbank] is a lovely B+B in Bridgend

Hotels
Duffies Bar/[|Lochside Hotel] is a great Whisky Bar just along from Bowmore Distillery. //If you mention to the owners that you will be attending the day, you might be able to strike a deal with them.[|.]// [|The Harbour Inn] is a 4star hotel in Bowmore, just round the corner from the distillery [|Melbourne Restaurants] [|Bridgend Hotel] is a centrally located hotel, with excellent public transport links they also have a house available as well.(Update: When you call ask to speak to Rebecca and say its for the High Schools conf.) [|Port Charlotte Hotel] is an excellent hotel and was Whisky Bar of the Year 2008. [|An Taigh-Osda] is a first class hotel in Bruichladdich with an excellent restaurant. Bruichladdich is a fairly quiet vilage, but is close to Port Charlotte.

Self-Catering
There is an excellent list of self-catering cottages and houses here which offer excellent [|catering services]: http://www.islayinfo.com/islay_selfcatering.html

=Other Events=

If you fancy making a weekend of your visit to Islay (and who wouldn't want to?), you may be interested to know that on June 13th there will be the annual [|Islay Beach Rugby] competition. The week after Islay will be hosting the [|Commomwealth Fly Fishing Championship]

Islay is infamous for its [|8 distilleries]. Each distillery runs tours (with the essential tasting session!) throughout June.



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