This evening lecture will focus on the importance of computer simulation modelling in other areas to enable robust planning… but question why it is failing to be widely taken up by the NHS.

This will be of interest to all clinicians, academics, IT professionals, and students.

Light refreshments will be available.

About the speaker: Robin Beaumont is a nurse by background and an experienced educationalist who has worked across a number of undergraduate and postgraduate university programmes. He is a well respected independent consultant in health informatics and an Honourary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

Reserve your place now – www.tayside.bcs.org/21May

This is a joint event between the BCS Health Scotland Group and the BCS Tayside and Fife Branch (@BCS_Tayside)

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The Branch’s Annual General Meeting was held yesterday evening.

The following documents were tabled at the meeting:

• Minute of the 2010 AGM
• Chair’s Annual Report
• Treasurer’s Report
• BCS in Scotland Report

The draft Minute of the 2011 AGM is here.

Election of Branch Officers, 2011/12

To prevent the loss of corporate memory and to prevent all committee members retiring simultaneously, committee members and officers have been standing down in rotation from 2010. This year, Jon Bolton and Corrado Mella were required to stand down from Committee. Both Jon and Corrado are eligible for re-election.

Jon Bolton was proposed by Kiran Oza and seconded by Andrew MacMahon

Corrado Mella was proposed by Kiran Oza and seconded by Andrew MacMahon

Earlier in the year, Dr Natalie Coull was co-opted on to the Branch Committee. Under regulation 4.1.3 of the Formal Rules For Branches (Version No. 8.2), this was reported to the 2011 Annual General Meeting. Dr Coull’s election to the Branch Committee was proposed by Jon Bolton and seconded by Kiran Oza.

The Committee is therefore confirmed as follows:

• Chair: Kiran Oza
• Secretary and Web Editor: Jon Bolton
• Treasurer: Andrew MacMahon
• Young Professionals Group rep: Andrew MacMahon
• Disability Support Officer: Andrew McMahon
• BCS in Scotland rep: David Murie
• Special Projects Officer: Corrado Mella
• Committee Member: Natalie Coull

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With the recent announcement by  Mike Russell, Scotland’s Education minister, regarding the cessation of the Glow Futures procurement and with the accompanying online discussion on the #EduScotICT wiki it is clear that there is a hunger for change in the nature and use of digital technologies in schools.

In this presentation Derek Robertson will argue that any change in digital platforms used in schools will only have impact if there is a culture change in the way digital technologies are addressed on schools. Using examples from his work in schools he will show how Scotland’s children can accommodate, meet and exceed expectations that are situated in contemporary digital contexts and he will argue that the creation of a culture of digital creation and not just consumption should be at the heart of any future change.

About Derek Robertson

Derek began his teaching career in Dundee in 1994. During his time in class he witnessed two boys, who were in his lower ability maths group, engaging with a complex problem-solving environment on the Super Nintendo console. He was astonished at how they engaged with the problems, how they were challenged by them and how they used their own suite of strategies to solve the problems in order to be successful at the game. Derek noted that this behaviour did not happen in the traditional maths setting and it made him reflect on the context of the game and why it facilitated such impressive abilities in children who had not shown it in the world of learning that they were expected to engage with in class. This chance observation gave birth to Derek’s interest and passion for games based learning. Two years as an ICT staff tutor in Dundee City Council was followed by a position as a lecturer on the B.Ed(P) and PGDE(P) courses at the University of Dundee. This position allowed him to establish games based learning as a topic of study for his teaching students and then to his successful application to lead games based learning initiatives for Learning and Teaching Scotland via the Consolarium. Derek is now partnering local authorities and teachers throughout Scotland to explore the impact of computer games in the classroom and is contributing to the growing body of work that is helping to change the discourse about the position and practical application of games based learning in classrooms.

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This event forms part of the BCS Tayside & Fife Branch – 2011 AGM

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