Author: Brian Clark

Identifying digital competence gaps 

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Practitioners should be able:

  • To understand where one’s own digital competence needs to be improved or updated.

  • To be able to support others with their digital competence development and be able to advise how to improve.

  • To seek opportunities for self-development and to keep up-to-date with the digital evolution. 

Support and Resources

Many vendors have professional learning programmes, specifically designed to support your understanding and skills of their technologies and services.  

Explore the digilearn.scot site, in particular :

Useful Documents

Features of highly effective digital learning, teaching and assessment in schools is a self evaluation tool that you will find useful when reflecting on your digital practice

What Digital Learning might look like is a document exemplifying possible examples of digital learning in the BGE.

Other Links

Digital Future Programme – Microsoft  UK 

 

Identifying needs and technological responses

Pedagogy in a digitally enabled learning environment Home

Practitioners should be able:

  • To assess the needs of all learners and to identify, evaluate, select and use digital tools and possibly assistive technology to support these
  • To adjust and customise digital environments to personal needs (e.g. accessibility). 

Support and Resources

Explore the accessibility features available on Microsoft, Google and Apple platforms, as well as the advice and resources provided by Call Scotland.

Expertise in Communication and Assistive Technology Call Scotland resources to support learner needs using digital 

Get started with accessibility features on iPad Apple guide to accessibility features available on iPad

Accessibility Features available in Microsoft products

 Google Workspace user guide to accessibility Google home for accessibility features available across the Workspace platform

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Digitally enabled learning environments

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Practitioners should be able

  • To make effective use of digital environments in order to increase access to the curriculum. 
  • To provide, and continue to develop, simple and streamlined processes to engage with learners and peers.  
  • To make use of automation when appropriate to process and manage data and repetitive tasks, for example processing digital forms, utilising self-marking tools, resource booking systems, social media alerting/posting.

Support and Examples

School leaders and practitioners make use of the digital environments available to them to increase the curriculum offer.  For example, inclusion and support for local authority / regional virtual school offers, delivery of specialist knowledge via digital services eg national and local code-a-longs and sharing expertise across a cluster.

Practitioners make use of the virtual environment to share learning materials on a regular basis, eg through the use of teams / onenote / google classroom.

Practitioners make use of the metrics and reporting data available via digital platforms to better understand learner engagement.

Practitioners ensure that learners are aware of further support through national offers such as

  • esgoil
  • westOS
  • locally developed anytime learning resources via your local authority or RIC

Use of digital tools to provide effective feedback quickly, such as assignment marking using rubric, pre-prepared feedback based on responses to quiz questions, audio notes

Auto Quiz Feedback

Videos and Forms

Using Rubrics

Digital resilience

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Practitioners should be able

  • To have the skills, knowledge and confidence to prepare digital technology for use with learners.

  • To react, respond and recover to problems when operating devices and using digital environments. 

Examples and Support

Developing, Integrating and re-elaborating digital content

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Practitioners should be able:

  • To create and edit digital content in different formats.
  • To modify, refine, improve and integrate information and content into an existing body of knowledge to create new, original and relevant content and knowledge. 
  • To be aware of how copyright and licenses apply to data, information and digital content, including whether you have the right to use digital information.
  • To find free to use content and the importance of referencing and attribution.

Examples and Support

Copyright webinar https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/530044188672127503  

Creating Videos for Learners – DigiLearn 

Planning, teaching, learning and assessment

Identifying needs and technological responses

Digitally enabled learning environments

Digital resilience

Developing, Integrating and re-elaborating digital content

Pedagogy in a digitally enabled learning environment Home

Practitioners should have the skills, knowledge and confidence set out in the Features of highly effective digital learning and teaching document to use digital technology to; 

  • plan learning.  

  • deliver teaching and learning. 

  • assess learning. 

Support and examples

Features of highly effective digital learning and teaching document 

Teacher Leadership Enquiry Posters

Examples from digilearnscot community

Digital Quality Assurance of National Qualifications – DigiLearn (glowscotland.org.uk) 

Collaborating through digital technologies

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Practitioners should be able:

  • To use digital tools and technologies for collaborative processes, and for co-construction and co-creation of resources and knowledge with learners, other staff and parents /carers. 

Support and resources

As part of networks in school, cluster or wider, teachers participate in collaborative planning and moderation:  

  • Creating and/or sharing lesson plans, resources and activities  
  • Create and/or share learning intentions and success criteria models  
  • Share examples and evidence of learning for moderation purposes, including discussions about standards  

As part of communication with families, documents may be shared to elicit responses and ideas from the school community, this can be used to shape events or papers.

Interact and share through digital technologies

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Practitioners should be able:

  • To interact through a variety of digital technologies and to understand appropriate digital communication means for a given context, for example with learners, other teaching staff and/or parents/careers.

  • To share data, information and digital content with others through appropriate digital technologies, for example with learners, other teaching staff and/or parents/carers. To act as an intermediary, to know about referencing and attribution practices. 

Support and Links

Using platforms, such as Teams, Classroom or Showbie etc, to share expectations for learning ahead of time:  

  • Es and Os and context for upcoming topic  
  • Learning Intentions and Success Criteria before lesson  

Setting up and joining networks for collaborating using platforms, such as Teams, to collaborate with colleagues, including:  

  • discussions  
  • File sharing  
  • Video calls  

Using external facing comms platforms, such as twitter, blog or Showbie to communicate learning to families, including:  

  • upcoming learning and support for families on how to help at home  
  • Evidence of learning and feedback  
  • Standards and expectations, like timetables, gym kit, trips or visits  

Managing digital identity

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Practitioners should be able:

  • to create and manage one or multiple digital identities (separate work and personal)
  • to be able to protect one’s own reputation
  • to deal with the data that one produces through several digital tools, environments and services. 

Support and Examples

The Common Sense digital citizenship program will look at digital footprint and other topics such as new & media literacy.

Hide My Email lets you create unique random email addresses to use with apps, websites and more so your personal email address can stay private. It’s built in to Sign in with Apple and iCloud+

This information guide from the National Parent Forum of Scotland is for parents and carers.

It’s clear that what we post online can have a real impact on our lives offline. This site helps you understand the long-lasting effects of what you share and empowering you to take control of how your online reputation is created. Created by internetmatters.org This resource is designed to help young people manage their online identity and the understand the Importance of a good online reputation.

Also, internetmatters.org provides information about how to deactivate/delete old social media accounts.  This will enable young people to stay in control of their digital footprint as they move onto new social media platforms 

ThinkUKnow will help you understand how leaners socialising online and how these form part of their digital footprint.

 

Managing data, information and digital content

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Practitioners should be able:

  • to organise, store and retrieve data, information and content in digital environments.

  • to organise and process them in a structured environment.

Support and examples

Data Education in Schools The Data Education in Schools project is part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal Skills Programme, funded by the Scottish Government. The project will be developing an interdisciplinary data education curriculum for Scotland and a set of engaging real world data science teaching materials for primary and secondary school teachers.

Register with the Intellectual Property Office and explore the resources to help educators understand intellectual property, copyright, trademarks and designs.

Teaching Data and Information to 5 – 11 Year Olds Online course from FutureLearn

Managing Information in Cloud Systems

A guide to Microsoft OneDrrive digilearnscot guide to OneDrive for storing and sharing files. 

Manage your Google Workspace storage Google Learning Cener guide to managing your workspace 

Using tags in Teams How to use tags in Teams to manage your content

Using and Managing Tags in Microsoft OneNote how to use tags in Microsoft OneNote