Digital Learning: Your Classroom, Your Practice, Your Journey

Materials to support the 2024/2025 ‘Digital Learning: Your Classroom, Your Practice, Your Journey’ probationer teacher session.Here you will find support materials linked to the session you attended as part of your Falkirk Council probationer CLPL programme.

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Links

Links to materials used in the session.

Session Slides

Connected Falkirk Quick Guide

You can view an online copy of the Connected Falkirk Quick Guide here on Canva. Or you can download a copy below.

Education Scotland Document

You can view an online copy of the edited support version of Features of Highly Effective Digital Learning, Teaching and Assessment below. You can access an unedited copy here.

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AI in Education Materials

Important information about the Falkirk Council stance on AI in Education. Please ensure you have read the information below before embarking on your own AI in Education journey.

Guiding Principles and Support

Remember, any staff member within Education Services who is using, or intends to use, AI tools should ensure they are familiar with the AI in Education: Guiding Principles and Support information.

AI Teacher Tools: Starter Suite

A carefully curated collection of nine free AI-powered tools which have been assessed to ensure their educational value and ease of initial use. The document sorts the tools by educational function, gives an education focused use overview and provides quick guides for each tool. View the Starter Suite page for more info.

Further Resources

Links and signposting to further resources around some of the tools explored in the session.

Want to peruse Padlet? Here is a full length Falkirk Apple Regional Training Centre session.

Wondering about Wayground*? Here is a full length Falkirk Apple RTC session.

*Please note that Wayground only recently changed its name from Quizizz, some of the features in this video are no longer available but you’ll get a decent overview of what the tool offers. 

Blooket and Freeform have recently been part of our Planning for Effective Digital Experiences session. You can view this below. (Freeform at 43mins 17sec & Blooket at 53mins).

Magic School has recently featured in our AI in Education: Exploring Planning and Preparation session. You can view this below. (Magic School demo starts at 37mins 34secs).

Accessibility Tools

You can find out more about built in accessibility tools on iPad, including a full session recording of our recent Accessibility: Reaching All Learners session here.

There are also a range of accessibility focused resources on this site including:

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Support

Your first port of call for Connected Falkirk iPad issues should be your school technician (secondary teachers) or to connectedfalkirk@falkirk.gov.uk (primary teachers). You should also refer to the Connected Falkirk Quick Guide mentioned both above and during your session.

Connected Falkirk is our 1:1 device project in Falkirk Council. It provides devices at a ratio of 1:1 from P6-S6 and 1:5 from P1-P5 in all schools in Falkirk. Teachers are also provided with the same device. Connected Falkirk is focused on maintaining access to these devices and getting the most out of them for learning and teaching. Make sure you are in the Microsoft Team to keep up to date with all things Connected Falkirk.

Visit our website.

DigiLearnFalk deals with all things digital learning. Our aim is to enhance digital learning in Falkirk schools. We offer synchronous and asynchronous opportunities to learn via videos, guides, webpages, live sessions and more. Make sure you are in the Microsoft Team to keep up to date with a wide variety of offers locally and nationally.

Visit our website.

The Falkirk Apple Regional Training Centre is centred around our teaching community. We provide Apple approved training as well as opportunities for Falkirk educators to share their own learning and expertise. Any Falkirk teacher who holds Apple Teacher accreditation can become a facilitator at the Falkirk RTC. We also work in collaboration with other RTCs across Scotland. Visit our website to find out more.

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Falkirk Council Education Services including many schools, teachers and parts of the service use Bluesky to help stay connected with one another. If you are using Bluesky professionally please ensure you have consulted the guidance available on the DigiLearnFalk Team (you must be a member of the Team and logged into Glow to view this).

You can follow DigiLearnFalk via @DigiLearnFalk.bsky.social

And Connected Falkirk via @ConnectedFalk.bsky.social 

Be sure to tag us in any digital learning activities or experiences you and your class(es) are engaging in, we’d love to see what you are up to!

To make it easier to connect with other schools and teachers in Falkirk we have created this Bluesky Starter Packs page which links you to all of our known Starter Packs so you can follow the right people quickly.

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