Author: Brian Clark

Evaluating data, information and digital content

Information and Data Literacy Home

Practitioners should be able:

  • to analyse, compare and critically evaluate the credibility and reliability of sources of data, information and digital content

  • to analyse, interpret and critically evaluate the data, information and digital content and the impact of algorithms/systems on this.

Support and examples

‘Maddie is Online’: a creative learning path to ethics of online safety and security for young people is a resource created by Robert Gordons University illustrating ethics of online safety and security for young people

Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information Use these strategies to help students identify relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability in the content they read

Digital Citizenship Curriculum Use digital citizenship lesson plans from Common Sense Education to address timely topics and prepare students to take ownership of their digital live

How fake news hijacks your brain Short video about fakenews from BBC BiteSize

How algorithms and filter bubbles decide what we see on social media Short video about how o algorithms populate our social media feeds from BBC BiteSize

Teaching Media Literacy A resource from reboot focussing on how we can help learners and ourselves navigate misinformation

Digital misinformation / disinformation and children A short read from Unicef “Misinformation is false or misleading information that is unwittingly shared, while disinformation is deliberately created and distributed with an intent to deceive or harm. Together they range from satire and parody, to dangerous conspiracy theories. Here are 10 things you need to know about how they affect children”

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Browsing, searching and filtering data, information and digital content

Information and Data Literacy Home

Practitioners should be able:

  • to articulate information needs, to search for data, information and content in digital environments; to access them and to navigate between them

  • to create and update personal search strategies

  • to be able to evaluate content to understand whether you have the right to use it and how to search for free to use content.

Support and Resources

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

The iDEA awards and badges are for anyone.  You may find the undertaking the iDEA award yourself will develop your understanding and knoweldge of a number of aspects of digital, including data and infomration use.  

The Information Commissioners Office provides support for schools in relation to takig photos, pupil information and lesson plans 

Approaches to Childrens Data Protection PDF download from 5RightsFoundation 

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.

Better Searching

How do search engines work? This short piece of learning illustrates how search engines like Google work.

How to search on Google Learn a few tips and tricks to help you easily find information on Google

5 Must-Have Google Search Tips from Common Sense Education is useful reference for more effective web searching. 

10 Web Search Tips from Lifewire

Google Advanced Search provides users with more opportunities to search and filter the web

Evaluating Online Resources a short article about evaluating content from the web

Resilience

Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety Home

Practitioners should be able:

  • To know how to recognise, react and recover appropriately to incidents involving devices, data, wellbeing and identity in relation to yourself and others.

Support and examples

This resource is to support you recover for any cyber incident.  The first aid box includes cyber security advice and emotional wellbeing advice to support the recovery process.

The CyberExplorers site will give learners the ability to use the knowledge and skills they have gained to stop a cyber-attack, demonstrating how they could contribute to keeping our world a safer place to live in. These real-world skills will be invaluable to them in their lives and future careers.

The National Cyber Security Centre will give you knowledge and skills to back up your data and apply security updates. To make you and your accounts more resilient

CyberFirst is a programme of opportunities to help young people explore their passion for tech by introducing them to the fast paced world of cyber security.

Our teacher tool kit will support you find the correct resource to enable you to gain knowledge and start conversations with leaners about making their device and themselves more resilient while using the Internet.

Protecting personal data and privacy

Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety Home

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

This SQA level 3 cyber security unit has an outcome on personal data security.  Education Scotland have created teaching resources that give leaners a basic understanding of how their data is gathered and used.

This link is to a glow team that host the resources.  If you do not have a glow login you will not get access to the resources.

Combined level 4 Cyber Security Fundamentals and Internet Safety assessment. There are a set of three booklets that will help secondary school pupils set up iPad, Chromebook and online accounts. These booklets are designed for learners to work through independently.The online accounts booklet has information on how to use privacy settings.

This site from the National Cyber Security Centre gives you information on how to remove your personal data form old devices such as:

  • iPhone
  • Chromebooks
  • Android

Hack the Raspberry Pi’s terminal and learn basic cyber security skills through a Pac-Man–themed treasure hunt.  This activity will help you gain a better understanding of how a hacker gets access to your data.

Our teacher tool kit will support you find the correct resource to enable you to gain knowledge and start conversations with leaners about what platform they are using to consume, create and communicate.

These guides from hwb.gov.wales include a detailed overview of the app, outlining the age rating and key terminology. They also highlight the risks each app poses to young people and gives detailed instructions on how to enable parental controls and safety settings.

Protecting Devices

Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety Home

Practitioners should be able:

  • To protect devices and digital content, and to understand risks and threats in digital environments.

  • To understand safety and security measures and to have due regard to reliability and privacy.

Support and Examples

 

Parental controls from internetmatters.org will give you knowledge on how to set up devices and make the most of the privacy settings on the networks, gadgets, apps, and sites that leaners may use.

Combined level 4 Cyber Security Fundamentals and Internet Safety assessment. There are a set of three booklets that will help secondary school pupils set up iPad, Chromebook and online accounts. These booklets are designed for learners to work through independently.

CyberGames UK contains different games to help you test your cyber skills.  These games a brought to you by the National Crime Agency (NCA) Cyber choices programme.

Cyber Sprinters is for primary school leaners between the age of 7 -11 years old.  As well as the game you get access to a toolkit of educational resources. The focus of the games and teaching resources is around conveying key messages to children and will help them to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding in crucial areas:

  • using and managing passwords
  • protecting their devices
  • dealing with suspicious messages

Code-Breaking, Cipher and Logic Puzzles Solving Tools site from bosentriq.com introduces you to concept encryption and decryption.  You can use the site to code and decode your own messages

CyberFirst is a programme of opportunities to help young people explore their passion for tech by introducing them to the fast paced world of cyber security.  CyberFirst covers a broad range of activities – a comprehensive bursary scheme to financially support undergraduates through university and a degree apprenticeship scheme, a girls’ only competition and thousands of free places on CyberFirst courses.

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Links

Your Voice Is Power: Enrich your computing curriculum by bringing together music, coding & entrepreneurship

“Your Voice is Power”? A collaboration between @Pharrell @GeorgiaTech @YELLOWORG @CompAtSch &@AmazonUK

BCS are teaming up with Amazon Future Engineer, Georgia Tech and YELLOW to bring you the Your Voice is Power UK competition: an opportunity for students aged 11-18 can make beats, learn code, and promote equity.

From the Your Voice is Power curriculum and a range online EarSketch training opportunities, teachers can provide all the skills required for their students to mix music using Python or JavaScript. Students can enter the competition with a remix of Pharrell Williams’ song, ‘Entrepreneur’. YVIP is a great way of promoting coding through creative and cross-curricular approaches.

The competition and resources enable students to develop their Python or JavaScript skills, including making use of sequence, selection, iteration, functions parameters and arguments.

With our forthcoming Hour of Code resource, students can code-along, developing the necessary skills and knowledge with engaging content and pause points with an introduction to EarSketch, and how to remix their first track.

The competition comes with a wonderful selection of prizes on offer:

  • Winner receives a £500 Amazon gift card
  • Four runners-up receive a £250 Amazon gift card
  • Grand prize-winning school receives a £2000 Amazon gift card

To get started, access training and find out more, teachers can access:

https://www.amazonfutureengineer.co.uk/your-voice-is-power

 

We would be delighted if you could share this unique opportunity with your networks by forwarding this email or by making use of our social media asset pack (attached or available to download https://tinyurl.com/yvipukassets)

Google For Education on Tour – Duncanrig Secondary School

Duncanrig Secondary

Join Google for Education at Duncanrig Secondary School in South Lanarkshire to see Google Workspace for Education and Chromebooks in action. The day will open with a keynote from the team, followed by a choice of sessions – including the opportunity to spend time in the classroom and see how pupils use the tools.

12 September 2022 at 9:30 – 12 September 2022 at 13:30 

Download the flyer for more information and registration details

Google Certification Programme

Google for Education Certification Programme: September – December 2022

Sign up here

Scotland’s Learn with Google Programme launched in May and had more than 250 educators complete their Google Certified Educator (GCE) training. The programme is back, with Level 1 sessions kicking off in September and Level 2 sessions in November.  

These are fully-funded and supported Google for Education learning pathways to achieve the Level 1 and 2 certifications.  The programme includes weekly live webinars with Google Certified Trainers, Coaches or Innovators and access to an online support hub for self-directed learning. The sessions are focussed around pedagogy and the Scottish Curriculum – so whether you are looking to develop collaboration or creativity with your learners, we’ve got you covered. 

Certification allows you to distinguish yourself as a digital leader and be recognised for the work you’ve done. Signing up for this programme does not mean you must rush to complete certification. When you are ready, you can request a free-of-cost exam voucher and sit an exam at your convenience, with up to 180 minutes to complete an exam. You will receive results straight to your inbox and can join the community to celebrate!

Find out more & sign up for the programme here: https://gfescot.co.uk/