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Welcome to the Education Scotland digital education support site. This site aims to provide support to educators to enhance their learning and teaching, their digital literacy skills and the use of digital across the curriculum.
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This page contains links to articles and papers exploring the risks of ‘screentime’ and social media and the lack of data and evidence supporting its… Read more
Ada Computer Science: Time-saving Resources for Teachers in Scotland Ada Computer Science is a collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the University of Cambridge.… Read more
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The presentation in this post was created and shared by Andy McLaughlin; a lecturer at the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen. He… Read more
We are delighted to announce that in partnership with Prodigy Learning, the licences for Microsoft learning resources (LearnKey) and the Microsoft Practice tests (GMetrix) have… Read more
This guest blog post was provided by the Community Learning and Development team at Aberdeen City Council. Supporting Children in the Digital World is a… Read more
Computing Science
Computing CPD Awards for teachers Inverness College UHI To find out more about these qualifications, contact Gordon Macpherson Gordon.MacPherson.ic@uhi.ac.uk Additional Teaching Qualification (ATQ) in Computing Studies CPD Award Visit: CPD Award Additional Teaching Qual in Computing Studies (uhi.ac.uk) This qualification enables qualified secondary teachers to add Computing Studies as… Read more
DigiLearnScot have been delivering live lessons across the country to support the delivery and professional learning of digital skills and Computing Science. These live lessons have been aimed at learners and teachers in the BGE. Since October 2022, we, along with partners such as Barefoot Computing, Microbit Educational Foundation, Tech… Read more
We were delighted to be able to support and deliver a day long professional workshop with all staff of Kingswells Primary School. We were asked to facilitate this activity after delivering an information session to colleagues at Aberdeen Digital Learning Live. This day long workshop guided all staff through practical,… Read more
In May 2022, every school in Scotland received 20 V.2 micro:bits, thanks to a partnership between The Micro:Bit Education Foundation, Nominet and The Scottish Government. Additionally, primary schools received 20 additional micro:bits as part funding secured by Education Scotland and Scottish Government. Alongside this roll out, a programme of free… Read more
Hardware Funding Update “Using the devices and accessories has allowed us to create more engaging microbit lessons and to expand teaching of computing constructs into makecode arcade. V2 microbits has also enabled us to link with areas such as well-being that we know from research engages learners better.” In February… Read more
Ada Computer Science: Time-saving Resources for Teachers in Scotland Ada Computer Science is a collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the University of Cambridge. Their aim is to provide high-quality, free, resources for Computing Science teachers and students. To kick off the school year, they have mapped their… Read more
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