About this site

Welcome to the Education Scotland digital skills site. This aim of this site is to provide support to educators to enhance their digital skills (to use technology) and ideas to apply those skills as part of their learning, teaching and assessment. There is also guidance, resources and ideas for planning learning in digital skills, computing science and cyber resilience within Curriculum for Excellence.

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Our Teacher Digital Skills Toolkit has been available for over a year now. It contains guidance on what skills and knowledge teachers in Scotland should… Read more

Live lesson catchup: Close reading not required - how search engines work

Ted Palenski from the University of Glasgow delivered this live lesson aimed at children and young people of all ages. Artificial intelligence has long been… Read more

Teaching for Digital Citizenship

  David Lundie from the University of Glasgow delivered this webinar during Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025.   The Teaching for Digital Citizenship project has… Read more

How Carnwath Primary became Scotland's digital trailblazer

  This video was recorded during Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025. It features Sharon Alexander, who is Principal Teacher at Carnwath Primary School – that… Read more

Scottish Digital Literacy Week is back for 2025! Click the link below to find details of upcoming events and sign-up details Click here for our… Read more

Welcome to out Catch Up Gallery of recordings from AI in Schools Week 2025.  You  will find recordings of CLPL sessions and live lessons on… Read more

thoughts on critical play: radical games design by mary flanagan

This blog is a summary of Mary Flanagan’s book Critical Play; Radical Game Design. This was recommended by Dr Tom Brock, who is a Senior… Read more

playing games

go to the Games in Education page This section aims to support educators to provide opportunities to play games in education. Games are valuable, meaningful… Read more

This is a recap for you and your class to follow along to that will show you how to create a voice recognition AI using… Read more