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Immersive Reader can:
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Display pictures for common words
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Real text aloud
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Making home learning content accessible: Padlet/Thinglink/Sway
In the following three session recordings, we explore how ELC practitioners can use a range of digital tools to help make home learning content more accessible, in an engaging early level friendly way.
*Please check with your local authority before using any digital tools/apps that are not part of the Glow core apps to ensure they are GDPR approved or if there is an alternative tool/app.
Digital tools explored include:
QR codes can also be a quick and effective way to share digital content with families by turning your video link into a small barcode that can be scanned by most smartphones.
Supporting early level learners to digitally document their learning: enhancing early level literacy with digital technology.
In this introductory session recording (part 1 of 2), we explore the Digital Literacy Experience and Outcomes (that sit within the Technologies Curriculum) and where they overlap with the Literacy and English curriculum. You will find out about a range of digital tools that exist to support learners to document their learning, by allowing them to creatively capture their voice and interactions. The session will be brought to life by real examples of rich media footage captured by whiteboard recording, green screen, interactive digital books, lip syncing and storytelling apps. This webinar also focuses on how the media can be collated collaboratively by practitioners and then shared with parents and carers via Glow.
A guided demo session to Support early level learners to digitally document their learning.
This session recording (Part 2 of 2) provides a guided demo on how to use the digital tools that are covered in part 1.
Digital technologies provide opportunities for us to design unique learning spaces for the children. Bringing resources and experiences virtually into the setting can lead learning well-beyond what was originally planned.
Realising the Ambition | Learning resources | National Improvement Hub (education.gov.scot) (page 79)
Learning with and through digital technology opens so many possibilities for creativity. Realising the Ambition tells us that creativity is about much more that the expressive arts, it is the ability to wonder about things and see them or use them differently, a crucial element of STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths).
Embedding Digital Literacy & Computing Science through play pedagogy
This 60 minute session recording introduces you to the Digital Literacy and Computing Science organisers within the Technologies curriculum at early level. Our national policy and curriculum documents tell us digital should be at the heart of good learning and teaching and through current examples in photo and video format, this session will demonstrate what this might look like. We will explore how the Digital Literacy and Computing Science experiences and outcomes can be embedded across the early level curriculum through a practical play-based approach. Early level Digital Literacy and Computing Science can be further explored below.
How Good is Our Early Learning and Childcare (HGIOLEC) QI 3.3: Developing creativity and skills for life and learning, theme Developing digital skills (page 45).
How good is our early learning and childcare? (education.gov.scot)
Some challenge questions to consider include:
All childcare providers want to create a safe and secure environment for the children in your care. As we become ever more reliant on digital technology it is increasingly important that you protect data (on children, staff and families), finances and also the integrity of any digital systems you use, including email, communication channels and databases.
There are a handful of steps you can take to minimise the potentially costly and disruptive effect of a cyber incident, and better safeguard the children in your care, as well as your business’s finances and reputation. This short seminar is for anyone working in childcare in Scotland. It is run by the National Cyber Security Centre (www.ncsc.gov.uk), and supported by the Scottish Government, Education Scotland and Care Inspectorate, as part of CyberScotland Week. It will provide you with advice and steps you can take to minimise the likelihood and impact of a cyber attack on your setting, and information about where to get help and advice if you need it.
Please click here to download e-pamphlet PDF Early Years practitioners: using cyber security to protect your settings.
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