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 have to meet the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) standard for registration, which requires teachers to be ‘digitally literate’. There is also short videos to support some of these skills and knowledge, as well as links to the Barclays Digital Wings free learning pathway, which covers all of these.

Beside the guidance, there is a Form for teachers to evaluate their essential skills, knowledge and confidence. We’ve now had almost 200 responses from 25 local authorities and the results are positive:

• 96% Use a device’s main features, such as keyboard, mouse, touchscreen or camera
• 96% Access and log in to platforms, such as Glow
• 93% Connect, or reconnect, a device to a Wi-Fi network
• 99% Search the web for information and evaluate the search results
• 77% Access and use common accessibility features, such as text size, text-to-speech, or speech-input
• 82% Consider copyright of any content or media included in created content
• 98% Access email and send a message
• 96% Access and join a Class, Team or group
• 84% Access cloud storage, create a file there and share it
• 78% Create a class and show learners how to join
• 81% Create files or share files from drive storage to the class
• 88% somewhat confident (44%) and extremely confident (44%)

 

Have you evaluated your digital skills recently? Take the survey and let us know how you get on!
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