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This is the BlueSky social account for the Interdisciplinary Learning Network. Follow us for posts and links of interest to educators and policymakers in education. Visit us or subscribe at https://idlnetwork.substack.com/

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IDL Network @idlnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 3

A new post from Caitlin Hall, an interdisciplinary student at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, on why she chose to study this particular degree.
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Why Did I Choose to Study an Interdisciplinary Degree?

Caitlin Hall reflects on her degree choice at the Edinburgh Futures Institute

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IDL Network @idlnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 30

Here's another great IDL teaching project idea in the Natural Partners series. Download the pdf for this and many other creative and practical resources to use in planning your own interdisciplinary lessons.

Biodiversity

by Dominika Starosta, Moray House School of Education and Sport

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IDL Network @idlnetwork.bsky.social · Jun 28

Today on the IDL Network, we have an interdisciplinary learning sequence idea from Sophie Graham (Moray House) for the Natural Partners Project. Check out this and many other teaching ideas on the IDL network - more coming in the next few days.

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Vertical Farming

by Sophie Graham, Moray House School of Education and Sport

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IDL Network @idlnetwork.bsky.social · May 20

What is interdisciplinarity? Emily Shaw's podcast explores how being skilled in different ways of thinking can help us see challenges from new perspectives, offering previously inaccessible solutions.

"Let the new air in."

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What is interdisciplinarity?

Teaching Matters Edinburgh · Episode

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IDL Network @idlnetwork.bsky.social · May 14

A Space of Possibility: Introducing Interdisciplinary Futures -- A new post from David Overend introducing an exciting new undergraduate degree at the Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

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A Space of Possibility: Introducing Interdisciplinary Futures

David Overend introduces the new undergraduate degree

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IDL Network @idlnetwork.bsky.social · Apr 3

A great piece in the TES this week by Tom Bird, on the sustainability of relying on individual teachers to deliver "Learning for Sustainability".

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Why sustainability can’t be left to individual teachers

Leaders need to champion ‘learning for sustainability’ so that it becomes a central part of the culture of a school, says this teacher

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IDL Network @idlnetwork.bsky.social · Feb 20

A new post on the IDL Network Substack from Prof. Colin Graham on Learner Pathways and Employability.

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Re-imagining Learner Pathways and Employability in a Fast-Changing World

The introduction of the Curriculum for Excellence in 2004 aimed to broaden and diversify education in the Scottish curriculum.

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IDL Network @idlnetwork.bsky.social · Jan 21

To kick the IDL network BlueSky feed off, let's read again Prof. Laura Colucci-Gray's (@l0ur0col.bsky.social) article on "moving the levers" of the curriculum. There's a nugget of gold in the exemplar on translanguaging well worth the time.

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Parkes Observatory, 1969

by Professor Laura Colucci-Gray

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IDL Network @idlnetwork.bsky.social · Jan 21

... excuse us, we're just getting started with our BlueSky account -- maybe you could help us by following or recommending accounts for us to follow? Check our SubStack (link in bio) for what we're about.

Meanwhile, here's a picture of the Lomond Hills. It's a panorama.

A panoramic photograph of the snow-capped Lomond Hills.