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Practitioners should be able:

• to organise, store and retrieve data, information and content in digital environments.

• to organise and process them in a structured environment.

Support and examples

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.

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

Teaching Data and Information to 5 – 11 Year Olds Online course from FutureLearn

Managing Information in Cloud Systems

A guide to Microsoft OneDrrive digilearnscot guide to OneDrive for storing and sharing files. 

Manage your Google Workspace storage Google Learning Cener guide to managing your workspace 

Using tags in Teams How to use tags in Teams to manage your content

Using and Managing Tags in Microsoft OneNote how to use tags in Microsoft OneNote

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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”

Other Links

• Data Education in Schools – Data Education in Schools
• Online Media Literacy Strategy UK Government online media strategy
• Digital Citizenship: Resource Roundup An older collection of articles, videos, and other resources on internet safety, cyberbullying, digital responsibility, and media and digital literacy that may be of use

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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