This session will support your staff with the latest guidance for using online services like Glow including effective communication, keeping information as safe and secure as possible, and supporting learners with better online habits.
A Glow login is required.
It will explain the three key messages from Education Scotland for supporting learners with using device and online platforms:
Consume, Create and Communicate – understanding how learners engage with devices and online platforms
Recognise, React and Recover – how to be cyber resilient and secure your devices and online platforms against scams and security risks
Safe, Smart and Kind – promoting positive behaviour online to support learners’ wellbeing
Read more about these on our Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety page.
This session will be repeated at 10:00 and 13:00 on the 12th, 13th, 16th and 17th of August. If these dates do not meet your needs, please contact us to request another session for you authority.
This session will support your staff with the latest guidance for using online services like Glow including effective communication, keeping information as safe and secure as possible, and supporting learners with better online habits.
A Glow login is required.
It will explain the three key messages from Education Scotland for supporting learners with using device and online platforms:
Consume, Create and Communicate – understanding how learners engage with devices and online platforms
Recognise, React and Recover – how to be cyber resilient and secure your devices and online platforms against scams and security risks
Safe, Smart and Kind – promoting positive behaviour online to support learners’ wellbeing
Read more about these on our Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety page.
This session will be repeated at 10:00 and 13:00 on the 12th, 13th, 16th and 17th of August. If these dates do not meet your needs, please contact us to request another session for you authority.
This session will support your staff with the latest guidance for using online services like Glow including effective communication, keeping information as safe and secure as possible, and supporting learners with better online habits.
A Glow login is required.
It will explain the three key messages from Education Scotland for supporting learners with using device and online platforms:
Consume, Create and Communicate – understanding how learners engage with devices and online platforms
Recognise, React and Recover – how to be cyber resilient and secure your devices and online platforms against scams and security risks
Safe, Smart and Kind – promoting positive behaviour online to support learners’ wellbeing
Read more about these on our Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety page.
This session will be repeated at 10:00 and 13:00 on the 12th, 13th, 16th and 17th of August. If these dates do not meet your needs, please contact us to request another session for you authority.
Micro:bit have created this series of three lessons (designed for learners aged 11-14 years) to introduce cyber security. Learners explore the need to create strong passwords before writing algorithms and programs to create their own ‘strong password generator’ using the BBC micro:bit.
There are a range of different competitions and challenges, aimed at all ages, that support and challenge learners to learn about Cyber Resilience.
CyberFirst Girls Competition 2021
The NCSC are working hard to get more girls interested in a career in cyber security. The CyberFirst Girls Competition provides a fun but challenging environment to inspire the next generation of young women to consider a career in cyber security.
The competition is a team event, with each one made up of 4 female students from Year 8 in England and Wales, Year 9 in Northern Ireland and S2 in Scotland.
These interactive lessons don’t need any technical knowledge. By taking part, learners develop digital skills while learning about cyber security topics. The lessons are designed to give individuals an insight into one of the fastest growing industries in the UK, creating more career prospects for the younger generation.
The NCSC are working hard to get more girls interested in a career in cyber security. The CyberFirst Girls Competition provides a fun but challenging environment to inspire the next generation of young women to consider a career in cyber security.
The competition is a team event, with each one made up of 4 female students from Year 8 in England and Wales, Year 9 in Northern Ireland and S2 in Scotland.
The ELC practitioner meet up theme for this week is: Confidence, creativity and curiosity in early level Computing Science –programmable devices, apps and online resources.
This session aims to bring together practitioners working with early level learners from all across the Early Learning and Childcare sector in Scotland.
The session will be an informal, discussion based meet up session, exploring and sharing how ELC practitioners are exploring, introducing and embedding early level computing science experiences and opportunities across the curriculum.
During the meet up, you will be able to use the chat option or turn on your microphone/camera to ask questions, talk about resources and share examples of practice and feedback if you so wish, including sharing your screen to show photos and videos if you have the permission to do so.
This series of meet up sessions are designed around a flipped learning model. Prior to attending the meet up, you are invited to watch a video of the webinar recording. This will ensure you have more flexibility to become familiar with the meet up theme and perhaps try out some of the suggested activities prior to the meet up.
This session will take place within a Microsoft Teams meeting.
You will NOT require a Glow login for this webinar.
The pre meet up session recording can be accessed below.
If you would like to raise any discussion points or put forward any questions prior to attending the session, you can do so anonymously via this Form.
More about the ELC practitioner meet up summer sessions:
Would you like to enhance your skills, knowledge and confidence in early level digital skills and digital literacy and computing science?
f the answer is ‘yes’ then our summer term ELC practitioner digital meet ups can help you.
The Digital Skills Team at Education Scotland are offering weekly meet up session to discuss various digital topics within the context of ELC.
Each week, a video in relating to the weekly topic will be added to this page, so that you can familiarise yourself with the discussion topic content and information before attending the meet up session. The videos can also be accessed earlier, via the Eventbrite sign up form.
It is a good idea to watch prior the videos before joining the meet up to ensure you have had time to become familiar with the information and perhaps try out some of the suggested activities prior to the meet up.
During the meet up, we will recap the key points from the video, have the opportunity to share thoughts, ask questions and discuss how learning can be taken forward in your own contexts.
The meet ups are for all practitioners working in the early learning and childcare sector in Scotland, based in an ELC setting, school, private/voluntary/independent settings and childminders.
The meet up sessions will be held in a Microsoft Teams meeting, via a join link that will be emailed to you once you have signed up through Eventbrite. You do not require a Glow log in to join.
Please click on the images below to access more information, including the descriptors or via the hyperlinks in the list of sessions.
The ELC practitioner meet up theme for this week is: Confidence, creativity and curiosity in early level Computing Science – unplugged and outdoors.
This session aims to bring together practitioners working with early level learners from all across the Early Learning and Childcare sector in Scotland.
The session will be an informal, discussion based meet up session, exploring and sharing how ELC practitioners are exploring, introducing and embedding early level computing science experiences and opportunities across the curriculum.
During the meet up, you will be able to use the chat option or turn on your microphone/camera to ask questions, talk about resources and share examples of practice and feedback if you so wish, including sharing your screen to show photos and videos if you have the permission to do so.
This series of meet up sessions are designed around a flipped learning model. Prior to attending the meet up, you are invited to watch a video of the webinar recording. This will ensure you have more flexibility to become familiar with the meet up theme and perhaps try out some of the suggested activities prior to the meet up.
This session will take place within a Microsoft Teams meeting.
You will NOT require a Glow login for this webinar.
The pre meet up session recording can be accessed below.
If you would like to raise any discussion points or put forward any questions prior to attending the session, you can do so anonymously via this Form.
More about the ELC practitioner meet up summer sessions:
Would you like to enhance your skills, knowledge and confidence in early level digital skills and digital literacy and computing science? If the answer is ‘yes’ then our summer term ELC practitioner digital meet ups can help you.
The Digital Skills Team at Education Scotland are offering weekly meet up session to discuss various digital topics within the context of ELC.
Each week, a video in relating to the weekly topic will be added to this page, so that you can familiarise yourself with the discussion topic content and information before attending the meet up session. The videos can also be accessed earlier, via the Eventbrite sign up form.
It is a good idea to watch prior the videos before joining the meet up to ensure you have had time to become familiar with the information and perhaps try out some of the suggested activities prior to the meet up.
During the meet up, we will recap the key points from the video, have the opportunity to share thoughts, ask questions and discuss how learning can be taken forward in your own contexts.
The meet ups are for all practitioners working in the early learning and childcare sector in Scotland, based in an ELC setting, school, private/voluntary/independent settings and childminders.
The meet up sessions will be held in a Microsoft Teams meeting, via a join link that will be emailed to you once you have signed up through Eventbrite. You do not require a Glow log in to join.
Please click on the images below to access more information, including the descriptors or via the hyperlinks in the list of sessions.
The ELC practitioner meet up theme for this week is: Confidence, creativity and curiosity in early level Computing Science.
This session aims to bring together practitioners working with early level learners from all across the Early Learning and Childcare sector in Scotland.
The session will be an informal, discussion based meet up session, exploring and sharing how ELC practitioners are exploring, introducing and embedding early level computing science experiences and opportunities across the curriculum.
During the meet up, you will be able to use the chat option or turn on your microphone/camera to ask questions, talk about resources and share examples of practice and feedback if you so wish, including sharing your screen to show photos and videos if you have the permission to do so.
This series of meet up sessions are designed around a flipped learning model. Prior to attending the meet up, you are invited to watch a video of the webinar recording. This will ensure you have more flexibility to become familiar with the meet up theme and perhaps try out some of the suggested activities prior to the meet up.
This session will take place within a Microsoft Teams meeting.
You will NOT require a Glow login for this webinar.
The pre meet up session recording can be accessed below.
If you would like to raise any discussion points or put forward any questions prior to attending the session, you can do so anonymously via this Form.
More about the ELC practitioner meet up summer sessions:
Would you like to enhance your skills, knowledge and confidence in early level digital skills and digital literacy? If the answer is ‘yes’ then our summer term ELC practitioner digital meet ups can help you.
The Digital Skills Team at Education Scotland are offering weekly meet up session to discuss various digital topics within the context of ELC.
Each week, a video in relating to the weekly topic will be added to this page, so that you can familiarise yourself with the discussion topic content and information before attending the meet up session. The videos can also be accessed earlier, via the Eventbrite sign up form.
It is a good idea to watch prior the videos before joining the meet up to ensure you have had time to become familiar with the information and perhaps try out some of the suggested activities prior to the meet up.
During the meet up, we will recap the key points from the video, have the opportunity to share thoughts, ask questions and discuss how learning can be taken forward in your own contexts.
The meet ups are for all practitioners working in the early learning and childcare sector in Scotland, based in an ELC setting, school, private/voluntary/independent settings and childminders.
The meet up sessions will be held in a Microsoft Teams meeting, via a join link that will be emailed to you once you have signed up through Eventbrite. You do not require a Glow log in to join.
Please click on the images below to access more information, including the descriptors or via the hyperlinks in the list of sessions.
The ELC practitioner meet up theme for this week is: Supporting ELC learners to digitally document their learning (mobile device apps).
This session aims to bring together practitioners working with early level learners from all across the Early Learning and Childcare sector in Scotland.
The session will be an informal, discussion based meet up session, exploring and sharing how ELC practitioners are using digital technology to support early level learners to capture and document their learning using mobile device apps.
You will be able to use the chat option or turn on your microphone/camera to ask questions, talk about resources and share examples of practice and feedback if you so wish, including sharing your screen to show photos and videos if you have the permission to do so.
This series of meet up sessions are designed around a flipped learning model. Prior to attending the meet up, you are invited to watch a video of the webinar recording. This will ensure you have more flexibility to become familiar with the meet up theme and perhaps try out some of the suggested activities prior to the meet up. The recording comprises of live demos of how to use the apps in the context of early learning and childcare.
This session will take place within a Microsoft Teams meeting.
You will NOT require a Glow login for this webinar.
The pre meet up session recording can be accessed below.
If you would like to raise any discussion points or put forward any questions prior to attending the session, you can do so anonymously via this Form.
More about the ELC practitioner meet up summer sessions:
Would you like to enhance your skills, knowledge and confidence in early level digital skills and digital literacy?If the answer is ‘yes’ then our summer term ELC practitioner digital meet ups can help you.
The Digital Skills Team at Education Scotland are offering weekly meet up session to discuss various digital topics within the context of ELC.
Each week, a video in relating to the weekly topic will be added to this page, so that you can familiarise yourself with the discussion topic content and information before attending the meet up session. The videos can also be accessed earlier, via the Eventbrite sign up form.
It is a good idea to watch prior the videos before joining the meet up to ensure you have had time to become familiar with the information and perhaps try out some of the suggested activities prior to the meet up.
During the meet up, we will recap the key points from the video, have the opportunity to share thoughts, ask questions and discuss how learning can be taken forward in your own contexts.
The meet ups are for all practitioners working in the early learning and childcare sector in Scotland, based in an ELC setting, school, private/voluntary/independent settings and childminders.
The meet up sessions will be held in a Microsoft Teams meeting, via a join link that will be emailed to you once you have signed up through Eventbrite. You do not require a Glow log in to join.
Please click on the images below to access more information, including the descriptors or via the hyperlinks in the list of sessions.
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