Finalised my planning for Education 2020 on the Isle of Islay. A few travel arrangements to tweak yet with CalMac, but accommodation sorted, and a bit of sofa surfing to come too. Booked a nice hotel with a few other geography stalwarts. I have an appointment with some Islay malts...Going to be quite a geographical trip, with Noel and Ollie confirmed, and Val also hoping to be there. We plan to arrive on Thursday and have a day exploring the island and collecting resources for the fabled Geography of Whisky resource - hopefully a spot of photography too. In fact, that might be just th visit might be just the spur to get the GEOGRAPHY OF WHISKY resource going...
Watch this space for more details...
The WIKI is HERE, and has more details of the event.
The Friday involves a trip to Islay High School, and after a tour, there's a chance to participate in a range of activities at the school. That's followed by a distillery tour of Bowmore, and then the evening Unconference itself.
This diagram below from the Wiki offers quite a lot of food for thought to begin with as to some possible changes in approach to education in the future...
Looking forward to the event very much...
Of course, one thing that there will be in 2020 is plenty of geography: whether it's still called that is another matter, but you can be certain that the GA will be fighting the cause for geography whatever shape the world is in by then....
I'll also be blogging and twittering away during the event, assuming my Vodafone dongle works (which I have no reason to think it won't - it works in Norfolk after all - tho' not in parts of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire...)
A little unrelated, but loads of fab pictures in the BESIDE THE SEASIDE Flickr pool.
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