Category: Resource

September 18, 2023

Session Resources: How Digital Tools Can Help EAL Learners

This guide is designed to help you in using digital tools to support pupils with English as an Additional Language.

August 21, 2023

Resource: Explore Your iPad Workbook

What is it?

A free Pages workbook download from Connected Falkirk and DigiLearnFalk, designed to help pupils explore their iPad and some of the core apps including Pages, Notes, Maps and GarageBand.

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How do I access it?

Go directly to the Box download. Once you have it downloaded to your iPad open it with Pages (you may have to tap Edit in the top right hand corner). You can then share it with students via Airdrop or uploading the file to your Virtual Learning Environment.

March 15, 2023

Information Session: Digital Wellbeing Award

Here you’ll find everything you need to revisit information from our information session on the Digital Schools Awards Digital Wellbeing Award. If you missed it don’t worry, there is a recording of the session available below or on YouTube.

December 6, 2022

Session Resources: Exploring Play with iPad

Here you’ll find everything you need to revisit information from our DigiLearnFalk: Exploring Play with iPad session. If you missed it don’t worry, there is a recording of the session available on YouTube. This session focused on digital play with iPad in the early and first levels.

April 10, 2022

Effects with GarageBand for iPad

What is it?

A free Pages journal download from Apple Distinguished Educator Eoin Hughes, designed to support learning about effects for recording music and audio in GarageBand

July 13, 2021

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.

July 1, 2021

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

July 24, 2020

Microsoft Teams: pupil and parent guides

Resources shared by schools for pupils, parents or carers about using Microsoft Teams

October 30, 2018

Doorway Online: online teaching resources

What is it?

Doorway Online Interactive and Accessible Learning has an array of free online teaching resources which can be used by early learners independently or as classroom activities led by a teacher on an interactive whiteboard.

June 12, 2018

MathsBot: online teaching resources

What is it?

MathsBot.com – a series of free online tools, created by Maths teacher Jonathan Hall, which can be used to support teaching mathematics. There are tools to support mathematics teaching at all stages whether primary school or high school. These are designed to be used in a teaching situation where a teacher is using the tools directly with learners to help explain concepts, or to provide interactive activities with a class, a group or individual learners.