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Overview Adobe Express for Education offers teachers and pupils the tools they need to confidently create a number of graphics, posters, image, presentations, and more. Putting creativity into learning, with features and tools that can integrated into any curricular area. The links below give you access to a large bank of… Read more
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Back to teacher digital literacy page This section aims to support teachers to develop their skills and knowledge required to use the Microsoft 365 platforms that are common in schools across Scotland. The Digital Teacher Toolkit is the associated CLPL. The Educator Digital Literacy framework is the associated evaluation document.… Read more
Back to teacher digital literacy page This section aims to support teachers to develop their skills and knowledge required to use the Google Workspace platforms that are common in schools across Scotland. The Digital Teacher Toolkit is the associated CLPL. The Educator Digital Literacy framework is the associated evaluation document.… Read more
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AI in Schools Week 2025 – Catch Up Resources – CLPL and Live Lessons
April 4, 2025Welcome 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, 2025This 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, 2025This 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, 2025Cyber 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
Code your own computational quiz
December 3, 2024Can 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
Computing Science Review – Workshop 1
December 3, 2024Provocations 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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Examples of prior games learning from Scottish schools - Examples of learning from previous games live lessons back to Making Games A primary teacher from Rowantree Primary School in Dundee shared this with us: “My class recently attended the above session and following on from your email we were keen to share our learning. They really engaged well with the session and loved making …
Into Film support for YGD - Into Film support for BAFTA YGD back to Making Games We have partnered with Into Film again to support educators with YGD participation. Sign up for the webinar on Tuesday 27th January at 330pm using this link: Into Film and YGD webinar link This will be followed up with 2 LIVE lessons to guide classes …
About BAFTA Young Games Designer competition - More about the BAFTA Young Games Designer competition back to Making Games YGD is “a chance for 10–18-year-olds to design, develop and present new game ideas”. The competition is now open and the closing date for entries is 12th March 2026. Children and young people will need an account on BAFTA to enter the competition …
Making Games: BAFTA Young Games Designer competition 2026 - Education Scotland is keen to support as many children and young people participate in playing and making games as possible. We are excited to work with Into Film and West College Scotland to deliver ideas, resources and live lessons to help children and young people participate in the BAFTA Young Games Designer (YGD) competition. YGD …
Evaluating your own practice (educators) – finding and checking information - Assessing your own practice It is important to not only develop effective information literacy skills but also to assess how these can impact our own everyday work. Understanding how information literacy development can bring positive benefits to our pedagogies and to our classrooms is a critical step towards embedding this into our wider everyday professional …
Evaluating information – finding and checking information - Evaluating information sources Here are a couple of ways children and young people can evaluate sources: Look for clues: Author (are they trustworthy?), Date (is the information still current?), Purpose (does the source inform, sell, persuade or entertain?) Strategy: SIFT – Stop, Investigate source, Find better coverage, Trace claims to original context. Children and young people should always remember to provide sources they use. As well as …
Trusted sources – finding and checking information - Trusted sources Children and young people should look for information that is reliable, accurate and credible. They should use sources that are transparent about their information, cite their evidence, and avoid bias or misinformation. This: is essential for learning accurate and reliable information develops critical thinking skills avoids spreading mis- or disinformation supports stronger research, …
CSW2025: Computing Science Week recap - Thank you to everyone who attended Computing Science week and made it a success again this year. Below is a playlist of some of the sessions we were fortunate to facilitate – a HUGE thank you to everyone who gave up their time to host a Teacher CLPL session or Live Lesson. 
Building Digital Citizens: my experience with Scotland’s Curriculum Improvement Cycle by a primary digital lead - My decision to engage with Scotland’s Curriculum Improvement Cycle regarding digital literacy began primarily when I began to lead my school through the Digital Schools Award journey. This experience revealed the Dunning-Kruger effect in action early in my school’s digital journey – while I started the process full of confidence, I gradually realised how much …
Digital Schoolhouse: Festival of Play 2025 by Blackness Primary, Dundee City - We were lucky that a parent of a child in our class works with Digital School House and they let us know about the event. There were spaces available and the children were really enthusiastic and keen to go. It would be great to let more schools know about the event – I am sure …
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Glasgow School of Art Open House at The School of Innovation + Technology, Sat 14 Dec 2024 at 13:00
Open House at The School of Innovation + Technology – Glasgow School of Art, Sat 14 Dec 2024 at 13:00
Come and join our creative community for a taste of studio life, speak to students + staff and get an insight into your time at the GSA.
Find our more and sign up using this Eventbrite link
The School of Innovation and Technology(SIT) invite you to an open studios event at the Glasgow Campus.
Book for this event to tour the SIT facilities and studios and meet with programme staff and current students and experience just a bit of our studio culture.
Please note this event is for Undergraduate Programmes within the School of Innovation and Technology only.
Highlights include: Undergraduate Study in SIT – Sound, Games & 3D, 13:00-15:30
Come and learn more about our undergraduate programmes in sound, games, VR and 3D modelling at The Glasgow School of Art’s School of Innovation & Technology and see our new studios in Glasgow’s city centre. There will be an opportunity to meet and chat with tutors, learn about the programmes and see (and experience!) a range of student work in sound, virtual reality, and more.
• 13:00 Welcome talk – UG study
• 13:30 Talks and tours:
o Studying BDes Sound for the Moving Image
o Studying BSc Immersive Systems Design (Games & VR and 3D Modelling)
Winter Scratch CodeAlong – 9th Dec, 11am
This session, facilitated by Rebecca from Code Club is aimed at learners have had some experience with Scratch.
Join Rebecca from Code Club and create a wintery wonderland animation in Scratch. You will learn to use loops, create clones of sprites, use sensing, and operator blocks! This codealong is suitable for learners who have some prior experience with Scratch.
#CSW24 – Computing Science Week Scotland 2024
Computing Science Week 2024 will run from November 4th to 15th 2024. Both weeks will comprise of Live Lessons, Success Sharing Sessions, Educator Webinars, and a face to face event in between to bring educators together and share good practice.
Week 1 has a mainly low code theme, with a few exceptions. It showcases the ways in which Computing can be explored without always having to focus exclusively on code based activities.
Week 2 will be hands-on coding activities for pupils and educators alike.
Watch a recap of the week below:
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#CSW24 - Explore Code Club Resources for Teaching & Learning
#CSW24 - Improve your coding with Scratch
#CSW24 - Coding with Scratch: Butterfly Garden
#CSW24 - Pilot Review CompSci Curriculum Review Cycle
#CSW24 - ScratchJR Creative Code Along (Pt.2)
#CSW24: ScratchJr Cross Atlantic Code Along Pt.1
#CSW24: Get started with the Micro:Bit
#CSW24: Everyone Can Code Resources for Teaching & Learning
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Recommended reading: Tackling Digital Exclusion – Audit Scotland
This blog post is a summary of key points in Audit Scotland’s report that might be useful for educational settings, such as schools, nurseries and local authorities to consider.
Read the full report with this link Tackling digital exclusion (audit.scot).
“Digital exclusion is strongly associated with poverty and people with certain protected characteristics.”
Anyone working with groups that may be at-risk of digital exclusion should consider the potential barriers in place to them accessing and using such technology. If there are analogue alternatives, these should be as effective and readily available, along with support, training and access provision for people to engage with them.
Where this is not the case, the Royal Society (2022) talk about the double loop of poverty where analogue factors are entrenched by digital ones to doubly affect those at risk of exclusion.
Some of the impacts of digital exclusion that are more likely to surface in education are:
- making it harder to access services and information
- making it more difficult for parents to engage with children’s education
- incurring debts or being unable to make payments if they lack the skills and confidence to use online payment methods.
Some of these, more than others, relate directly to rights of individuals, including:
- Right to receive and impart information
- Right to education
Many schools and local authorities already have digital leaders or champions, and I imagine that ensuring these families are not digitally excluded is high on the list of school improvement actions anywhere digital is included.
The report also calls for a Scottish minimum digital living standard (MDLS) which “includes, but is more than, having accessible internet, adequate equipment, and the skills, knowledge and support people need. It is about being able to communicate, connect and engage with opportunities safely and with confidence.”
This is an aspect we have tried to factor in our recent guidance on digital skills for learners and teachers. Ideally, this guidance will support local authorities and educational settings to develop such a set of skills and knowledge in learners with the aim of reducing digital exclusion from not having them.
The last point that really resonated for education was ‘how poorly designed digital services without useable alternatives can lead to barriers to accessing services and have a negative impact on vulnerable people.’
Where apps are used to communicate learning to families on a regular basis – how effective are the non-app alternatives? How does a paper copy compare to video or verbal media shared on apps? Does the school or nursery make this feedback more equitable for families that need it? Perhaps in-person sharing on a regular basis?
If they don’t factor and mitigate this effectively, we risk having a ‘part of the population … unseen or unheard [as] the pace of technological change continues’.
TechTok 2024: Video Recap
Below is a playlist of the sessions that were delivered by practitioners during TechTok24. Each video is linked below. Thanks to Russell White from Moray House for organising and hosting this successful virtual conference.
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TechTok 24 Session 1: Digital Pedagogies in BGE
TECHTOK 24 Session 2: DayDream Believers
TechTok 24 Session 3: Growing Creative Minds
TechTok 24 Session 5: Assessment Practices in Design & Technology
TechTok 24: Session 6: Crafting in a Different Landscape
TechTok 24 Session 7: Effective Questioning and No Opt Out
TechTok 24 Session 8: Global Goals in BGE
TechTok 24 Session 9: Developing a Shared Vision for a D&T Department
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Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge
This module has primarily been developed to further enhance the skills of the learners to take part in, for example, cyber competitions and challenges including the Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge.
Participants will explore the challenges a country may have when dealing with a national cyber security incident from a non-technical, political, economic social and legal perspective.
Participants will also develop their public speaking and presentation skills to discuss cyber security issues at the highest decision-making levels.
The module is intended for school pupils, university and college students and can be adapted to suit the level of learners.
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