Why digital?
Kirsty McFaul, Education Scotland
Kirsty McFaul, Education Scotland
This resource focuses on the role Alan Turing and the Enigma machine played in deciphering coded messages during World War II. Why not use this as a context for maths during your WWII topic?
Want to see more about code cracking?
The Ice Age-themed ‘pre-reader’ challenges only ask learners to use one or two blocks of code at a time and the directions are represented by arrows, so they can start to code without needing to read.
This Star Wars-themed challenge introduces the use of directional words on screen. So as your learners develop confidence with directional language, they can try more challenging code too.
This Frozen-themed challenge introduces the use of degrees and angles to control the characters on screen.
We have delivered number of webinars with our Numeracy and Mathematics colleagues in the past year – those webinars can be viewed on this playlist.
We have also created bitesize tutorials on the tools and approaches we use in these webinars – these can also be viewed here:
This short tutorial video demonstrates how to use Windows Snipping Tool with Mathsbot manipulatives to create graphics for Jamboard, OneNote or Forms quizzes:
We developed and delivered two series of professional learning with our literacy and English colleagues last year and theses webinars have been curated in this playlist. The playlist has now had several more videos relating to literacy and English added to it, and it continues to grow.
The Scottish Cyber Awards are for anyone working in the cyber field who feels they or they know of someone who is going above and beyond their day job to make a difference to the cyber security of Scotland. Nominate yourself or share the love and nominate a colleague or partner who is excelling.
We firmly believe that having this approach certainly answered John Swinney’s call for schools to be creative in how they engaged with families and facilitating the learning opportunities for all our young people.
Patricia McKay is the Depute Head Teacher at Mossend PS & NC in North Lanarkshire and Gordon Reid is a class teacher and ICT Co-ordinator. Together they facilitated and led the remote learning strategy for the school.
Mossend PS & NC is a non-denominational school situated in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. The school has 382 pupils and there are 40 children in the nursery attached to the school.
Twitter: @mossendps @Mr_G_Reid
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