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Learner Digital Skills Toolkit: where to start when planning digital literacy in Curriculum for Excellence

The support document aims to make clear the digital knowledge and skills that learners require to be digitally competent. Being digitally competent means being able to use the most common devices and apps. It is an essential step to becoming digitally literate.

Being digitally literate means being able to independently use and critically engage with digital technology and society, such as data literacy and information literacy. We are developing guidance to support educators deliver this.

Ideas and resources for teaching digital literacy can also be found here: Digital Literacy for Learners.

This document is part of a series, view the other documents here: Digital Literacy Series

Please use this form to provide feedback on the document with this link:

Learner Digital Skills Toolkit feedback form (MS Forms)

 

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Teacher Digital Skills toolkit

The toolkit document outlines the skills and knowledge that comprise digital literacy in the General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS)’s standards. The skills are organised into three levels:

  • Essential skills that are required by every teacher to engage with daily work routines, such as passwords and emails
  • Core skills that most teachers should have to effectively prepare learning activities and resources for learning, including using devices and apps to create presentations
  • Enhancing Learning and Teaching, which provides an overview of how digital skills may be used to improve learning, teaching and assessment

This document is part of a series, view the other documents here: Digital Literacy Series

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English version

Gaelic version

VIEW THE DOCUMENT AT EDUCATION SCOTLAND:

Teacher Digital Skills Toolkit | Resources | Education Scotland

View the Gaelic document as PDF
DLT Teacher Digital Skills Toolkit Gaelic version PDF

Checklists for individuals (requires a Glow login – opens a Microsoft Form):

Essential skills online checklist

Core Skills online checklist

Enhancing learning and Teaching online checklist

Checklists for schools or local authorities (creates a duplicate in Forms for your own data collection):

Essential Skills online toolkit

Core Skills online toolkit

Enhancing learning and teaching online toolkit

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Evaluating Use of Digital to Enhance Learning and Teaching (Features of Highly Effective Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Schools)

This document aims to support educators in evaluating their use of digital to enhance learning and teaching. It takes features of How Good is Our School and exemplifies how digital can be used to enhance features of effective learning and teaching.

This document is part of a series, view the other documents here: Digital Literacy Series

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Gaelic version

 

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Features of Highly Effective LTA in Schools Gaelic version.pdf

CIDREE Yearbook 2021 – Digital Literacy: Curriculum Development and Implementation in European Countries

The latest CIDREE Yearbook was published towards the end of last year. Titled Digital Literacy: Curriculum Development and Implementation in European Countries, we contributed the Scottish chapter on how digital literacy has been embraced by education practitioners and learners across Early Learning and Childcare, primary and secondary schools (ages 3-18). 

It details how adapting and diversifying modes of professional learning are critical in providing practitioners with relevant, motivating and skills-building opportunities to improve their own digital learning and subsequently provide better digital learning for young people. It then expands on how this has led to the development of knowledge, skills and application in the use of digital tools and on pedagogical practice.

Read the full CIDREE publication here

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