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Scottish Digital Literacy Week is back for 2025! LIVE events for learners and educators will start from 12th May. There will be sessions run by… 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

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Welcome to the Education Scotland digital and 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 literacy, computing science and cyber resilience within Curriculum for Excellence.

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Scottish Digital Literacy Week is back for 2025! LIVE events for learners and educators will start from 12th May. There will be sessions run by… 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

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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

cyber comics for young people 2

Exciting new resource created by young people for young people. Education Scotland supported North Ayrshire youth work to work with young people to create cyber… Read more

Cyber Scotland Week 25 – Scratch Code Along Recap and Resources Create a strong password generator using Scratch as part of Cyber Scotland Week 2025!… Read more

AI generated image of pre school children playing with loose parts and small globe lights in a play room

When you think of loose parts, do you ever consider light up resources?  Small, inexpensive, battery operated torches, touch lights, string lights?    The Thrive… Read more

image of a toddler pressing the buttons on the LED panel of a washing machine

Sharing our reading with you……  The two-year Toddlers, Tech and Talk study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, was conducted by researchers from… Read more

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