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Falkirk Digital Learning Leadership Week

Digital Learning Leadership Week (26th to 30th May 2025) is focused on developing and enhancing digital learning leadership across our education establishments in Falkirk. Through a series of events, including digital partners and guest speakers, we’ll explore strategies, approaches and tools to help us meaningfully integrate technology into teaching and learning to improve learning outcomes and experiences for children and young people.

This week is about creating the time and space to collegiately discuss, explore, share and develop the ways in which we can lead the leverage digital tools effectively, to improve educational outcomes for our students and equip them with the confidence, skills and knowledge needed to thrive in an ever-changing, fast-paced digital world. From strategic school leadership level, to classroom based leaders of learning – there are events for everyone over the course of the week.

What’s on?

Google Discovery Day: Leading Digital Learning

Time: 10am – 3pm • Location: Forth Valley College

Audience: Senior leadership/digital leads in all sectors

Description: Join Canopy and Google for Education to explore how school leaders can effectively lead digital learning in their establishment to improve student outcomes. The session emphasises strategic and pedagogical approaches and innovative uses of technology. Hear inspiring stories from local schools who have successfully implemented digital learning strategies, overcome challenges and are having an impact on learners and learning. Explore how to leverage technology to enhance teaching and learning, and ultimately, drive student success.

Your school does not have to be actively using Google Workspace for Education to attend, the session focuses on leadership of digital learning. Lunch is provided at this event.

Day Overview:

This full day workshop aims to equip school leaders with strategies and frameworks to effectively lead the consistent and meaningful use of digital learning tools in their schools, particularly in relation to Google Workspace use on iPad. Sessions will have a Google focus, but strategies shared could be applied in any school setting. The day will be split into four parts consisting of:

Your Reality – Usage, Impact & Potential: Participants will reflect on their school’s current usage of digital tools, identify barriers to best practice, and potential for improving provision.

Defining Success – Powerful and Effective Workflows: This section focuses on agreeing upon core workflows that support school priorities and balancing consistency with pedagogical freedom. We will introduce Google’s Gemini AI tool in this session. 

Leading the Change – Supporting Staff & Embedding best practice: Practical strategies to support staff in adopting and embedding Google Workspace effectively will be discussed, including the use of Google tools for leadership and planning professional development.

Learning from the Field – Effective Leadership in Practice: Participants will hear real-world examples of leading Google Workspace implementation from local peers in a Q&A panel format.

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Teaching and Learning Using Google on iPad

Time: 10am – 3pm •  Location: Grangemouth Town Hall

Audience: Classroom teachers, faculty heads and SLT in all sectors.

Description: Join Canopy and Google for Education in this professional development day for classroom teachers who lead learning in their classroom every day. Focused on enhancing your teaching and learning using Google Workspace tools. Find solutions to your questions about AI, digital pedagogy and practice. Discover tips and tricks to reduce your workload using Google tools to maximise productivity and lead change in your setting from the ground up.

Your school does not have to be actively using Google Workspace for Education to attend but this session does focus on Google tools, please ensure you have logged into Google Workspace via Glow (including checking you have access to Google Gemini) and accepted the terms and conditions prior to attending this session. This session is perfect for those already using Google Workspace who wish to delve deeper into the tools or those who are interested in using Google Workspace to get hands on and discover what is possible. Lunch is provided at this event.

Day overview

Today is all about maximising impact using Google Workspace and your iPad in the Classroom. Join us for a practical, hands-on workshop focused on getting the most out of Google Workspace and iPads in your classroom. This day is designed for teachers who want to enhance learning, save time, and create inclusive learning environments using technology. Here’s what you can expect:

Session 1: The Connected Classroom – Mastering Google Classroom on iPad:

  • Learn to navigate the Google Classroom app on the iPad efficiently.
  • Discover how to create and manage assignments using the iPad, incorporating photos, videos, and annotations

Session 2: Engaging Learners – Dynamic Formative Assessment & Feedback with Google on iPad:

  • Explore using Google Forms for quick quizzes, exit tickets, and feedback.
  • Learn to provide timely, effective feedback using iPad annotation tools and Google Docs/Slides features.

Session 3: Inclusive Practice – Supporting Every Learner with Google on iPad Accessibility:

  • Learn to leverage Google Workspace and iPad accessibility features to support students with diverse needs.
  • Discover how to adapt assignments and materials for differentiation.
  • Explore tools like Google Keep and Calendar to aid organization for learners.

Prerequisites: Please bring your iPad with the necessary Google apps (Classroom, Drive, Docs, Slides, Forms, Keep) installed and logged into your Glow/Google Workspace account.

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Adobe x Falkirk: Adobe Creative Educator and AI Tools in Express

Time: 4pm – 5.30pm • Location: Online

Audience: Educators in all sectors.

Description: Calling all creative teachers! This session is for our classroom teachers who value creativity, imagination and self expression in the classroom. Explore Adobe Express and find out how it can be used to encourage and inspire creative projects where learners can show what they know, explore ideas and tell their stories. Get to grips with exciting built in AI features including AI image generation. Become a certified Adobe Creative Educator Level 1 and become a creativity leader in your school. All Falkirk teachers have access to Adobe Express via Glow on iPad (app) and desktop (browser) – make sure you have logged in prior to the session.

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Heads of Establishment Conference: Digital Leadership

Time: 9.15am – 2.30pm •  Location: Forth Valley College

Audience: Head Teachers and Heads of Centre in ELC, primary and secondary.

Description: The focus of this Heads of Establishment Conference is digital leadership. Join Dan Fitzpatrick – educational strategist, author and international keynote speaker on artificial intelligence in education – for a morning keynote on navigating the changing landscape of education. Learn the “Three Box Solution” to drive innovation and develop future-ready leadership skills.

Participate in hands-on workshops with Dan Fitzpatrick and our local Digital Learning Team focused on AI leadership as well as time to collaborate with colleagues on the Agile Leadership work we are currently exploring with Dr. Simon Breakspear. 

The afternoon culminates in a session with Professor Steve Munby – a world-leading authority on leadership and on system reform –  focusing on building future-ready schools. 

No sign up required. Confirm attendance in line with usual practices for HOE Forum.

Prep the machine: writing AI prompts for teachers with Dan Fitzpatrick

Time: 3pm – 4pm • Location: Larbert High School

Audience: Classroom teachers in primary and secondary (limited spaces)

Description: Looking to level up your prompt engineering and truly leverage the power of an AI assistant? Join educational strategist and author of “The AI Classroom,” Dan Fitzpatrick, for this intimate and interactive workshop on crafting powerful AI prompts. Learn the PREP framework to get the most out of AI tools. Discover how to write prompts that generate engaging lesson plans, personalised learning materials, and innovative assessment tasks. This hands-on session will equip you with the skills to effectively integrate AI into your teaching practice. Don’t just use AI, master it and lead the way with prompt engineering in your school. Limited places available.

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The AI Classroom with Dan Fitzpatrick

Time: 4:15pm – 5:15pm • Location: Larbert High School

Audience: Classroom teachers, faculty heads and SLT in all sectors.

Description: Ready to ride the AI wave instead of being wiped out by it? Join educational strategist Dan Fitzpatrick, author of “The AI Classroom,” for an inspiring session on revolutionising learning with artificial intelligence. Discover how AI can free up educators to focus on critical thinking, understand its disruptive potential, and learn practical ways to harness its power today. Explore advanced AI and its implications for education. This isn’t just about tech; it’s about transforming the learning experience. Sign up now and prepare your students for the future.

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Session Resources: How Digital Tools Can Help with Creating and Presenting

On this page you’ll find everything you need to revisit information from our @FalkirkLiteracy and DigiLearnFalk session ‘How Digital Tools Can Help With Creating and Presenting’. This session focused on tools and features available on iPad that can help children and young people create learning artefacts that present their ideas, it is focused on talking and listening skills. There is a recording of the session on YouTube which can also be found at the bottom of this page.

Session Slides

You can view a PDF copy of the slides below or download them by clicking on the three dots and selecting ‘Download PDF File’. 

 

Additional Content

Our sessions tend to have a lot of live demonstrations within them. The remainder of the page outlines the digital tools covered in the session in a format which can be easily revisited or passed along to colleagues who were unable to attend the session.

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Rehearsing

Rehearsing a traditional style presentation in front of the class or a group can be one of the more challenging areas to support young people in. There is often limited time to allow learners to get one-to-one feedback when rehearsing, it can be difficult to facilitate peer rehearsal in class we often ask young people to rehearse or practice presentations at home. There are a few digital tools which might help encourage rehearsing.

PowerPoint Presenter Coach

PowerPoint Presenter Coach allows you to rehearse presentations and give you feedback on your performance.

Pages Presenter Mode

Pages Presenter Mode allows young people to practice the speech part of their presentation using an auto cue style approach.

Projecting to the Board

Many of us ask children to make some form of presentation on PowerPoint, Google slides or Keynote and then we ask them to present it to the class. Allowing your pupils to share their presentations via Apple TV not only speeds up the sharing process but allows learners to make use of presenter view. Presenter view built into Keynote and PowerPoint allows children to see their slides and their notes at the same time.



PowerPoint

Keynote

Doing this brings together the visual elements and the prepared speech in the form of notes into the same document. Which means that when we are making the presentation, we are thinking about it as a whole entity Which oftentimes makes for a better presentation.

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Podcasting

Podcasting is a significant medium in the modern world with over 504.9 million podcast listeners worldwide in 2024. There are many ways to publish podcasts once you have a completed audio file. Podcasts can be a great way to showcase learning without worrying about being on screen or getting caught up with visuals.

Garageband is an app built into all iPads that allows you to create a podcast. While it might seem overwhelming at first, many schools use GarageBand to create their own podcasts including our very own Carronshore Primary School and St Bernadette’s RC Primary School.

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Session Recording

Here is a full recording of the session for those who wish to watch it again or who missed it.