Author: Martin Coutts

Digital Skills Development Officer

Digital Creators Week 2026

Digital Creators Week is an opportunity for learners to put their digital skills to use and create content in a variety of media forms. This week of action packed live lessons will run during the week of 11th May 2026.

The week will be a mixture of sessions delivered by our partner providers and digilearn.scot team members.

Specific sessions are TBC and we will share updates as and when they become available.

Cyber Scotland Week 2026

CyberScotlandWeek invites individuals, organisations and communities across Scotland to raise awareness of cyber security and strengthen our collective cyber resilience. It is organised by CyberScotland Partnership, who are a collaboration of key stakeholders brought together by the Scottish Government’s Cyber Resilience Unit, with the aim of raising cyber security awareness and building Scotland-wide cyber resilience.

This year’s theme will be shared in due course.

Through a series of curriculum live lessons, sharing practice, and professional learning sessions during the week, CyberScotland Week aims to educate, support, and empower schools, educators, learners, and organisations with the knowledge and tools to stay secure online.

Scottish Gamesfest 2025

We are planning to host events as part of Scottish Gamesfest in September 2025.

The aim is to provide up-to-date and relevant information on Esports in Scotland. It will cover:

  • Scottish Esports Education landscape
  • What are the pathways and organisations they can work with locally for engagement
  • Live Lessons
  • Educator Webinars
  • Partner Provider sessions

Exact date is TBD and we will share updates as and when they become available.

Learning & Teaching with Digital

To kick-off the 2025 – 26 academic session, we will be hosting a number of opportunities in August and September for staff, schools, and senior leaders. Some of the sessions will cover the following:

  • Digital Schools Award
  • Teacher Digital Skills Toolkit
  • Planning and delivering a Digital Strategy 

These sessions are designed to enhance the learning & teaching experiences with digital in schools.

Once sessions are established, we will update this page with links to the events.

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AI in Schools Week 2025 – Catch Up Resources – CLPL and Live Lessons

April 4, 2025

Welcome to out Catch Up Gallery of recordings from AI in Schools Week 2025.  You  will find recordings of CLPL sessions and live lessons on this page. Check out our dedicated AI page >  Artificial Intelligence in Scottish Education: What you need to know – DigiLearn You can access the… Read more

AI CodeAlong – Control A Fish With Your Voice – Recap

March 28, 2025

This is a recap for you and your class to follow along to that will show you how to create a voice recognition AI using https://machinelearningforkids.co.uk/ and connect that to a simple Scratch project where you can use your AI to control a fish sprite! Based on the activity done… Read more

Scratch CodeAlong: Build A Language Translator – Recap

March 27, 2025

This is a recap for you and your class to follow along to that will show you how to create a multi-language translator tool in Scratch! Based on the activity done as part of the code along during AI in Schools Week 2025. The video takes you through how to… Read more

Password Generator – Scratch Code Along Recap and Resources

February 27, 2025

Cyber Scotland Week 25 – Scratch Code Along Recap and Resources Create a strong password generator using Scratch as part of Cyber Scotland Week 2025! In this session, you and your class will learn to use lists and random numbers to generate and store random strong passwords using three random words as advised by… Read more

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Code your own computational quiz

December 3, 2024

Can you beat the quiz? Got what it takes to beat our Very Computational Christmas Quiz? 20 questions, no time limit.  Try it on your own, as a group or as class!  Let us know how you do @digilearnscot TRY THE QUIZ Too easy?  Looking for a different challenge? Why… Read more

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Computing Science Review – Workshop 1

December 3, 2024

Provocations There were a number of speakers during  the morning session to set the scene and provide stimulus for discussions. You can watch and / or download the presenters slides below. You are may wish to add your thoughts, individually, or from a group perspective to the discussion boards. The… Read more

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Create-A_Long comic book with custom images

Create-A-Long Activities – Create a custom comic book

Communicate visually wit colourful graphics to tell a story, explain a concept, summarise a plot, or show how a pattern can be represented visually.

Comics can be a great way for learners to showcase their storytelling skills, explain concepts, and visually represent a concept. For learners with limited or no communication skills, this can be an excellent way to have them contribute to the wider conversation in class.

For this activity we have used a modified version of the Create a Comic Activity from the  Everyone Can Create Apple Teacher Learning Centre section.  

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For this activity we used

an iPad, Apple Pencil, pages app, adobe express icons

We used an iPad, an Apple Pencil, Pages, and Adobe Express using our Glow Scotland credentials. Whilst these are very specific examples we appreciate that not every school has access to these resources. An alternative might be to use a web based tool such as Book Creator which has excellent comic book templates and Pixabay which has free to download graphics. 

Step 1: Create-a-long: Download the Activity

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Step 2: Create-a-long: Create Your Characters

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Step 3: Create-a-long: Put your comic book together

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Now that you have tried all of the steps and put the comic together, you have developed the skills in your learners to apply this knowledge in different situations. Using comic book style activities can be a great way to Visualise concepts, retell failure Argos from history with custom characters, or even explaining concepts like the water cycle in new and engaging ways. 

Try it yourself and feel free to share your stories of success with us via social media:

Bluesky: @digilearnscot.bsky.social