Author: Miss Abercrombie

Support for your school digital learning journey

When your school is looking to move forward in its digital learning journey, where do you start?

You may be reflecting on where you are, where you want to be, and what needs done to move further along the road in embedding digital technology across the school, at all stages and across the curriculum to make a positive difference to learning and teaching – and every school will be different.

The signposts below to the resources you may find useful, whatever your starting point, will help you gauge where your school is right now, help your school define a vision, map out the steps to take to move forward, identify the strengths, experiences and roles of everyone in your school community, set markers to track your journey, and celebrate the successes.

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Project Evolve: help equip children and young people for digital life

What is it?

ProjectEVOLVE provides a framework and progression with matched activities and resources, to support anyone working with children and young people to equip them for digital life, from early years to age 18. ProjectEVOLVE takes the hundreds of statements from UK Council for Internet Safety’s (UKCIS) framework “Education for a Connected World” and marries together perspectives, research, activities, outcomes, supporting resources and professional development materials. ProjectEVOLVE is free to use.

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iDEA Award: recognising learner skills

What is it?

The Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award, known as iDEA, is an award programme which provides access to a range of free on-demand online courses. In completing courses from the wide range available they not only aim to support developing digital, enterprise and employability skills, the completion of the assessments built into each course provide the means to demonstrate the learner’s skills, and then give recognition for so doing. Read more

Glow: steps for staff users moving establishment or authority

At the end of each school year you may be moving from one establishment to another, or from one local authority in Scotland to another. You’ll want to be aware of how your move may change your access to your Glow account and actions you’ll need to take before the move.

The following guides may be helpful in taking the steps needed to ensure you keep access to what you need or everything moves as you wish!

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