New for 23/24, this page is all about you, the ELC Community!

This page is for you to share snippets from your practice and together we will build a supportive community from all over Scotland across the ELC sector.

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Share your story!

Please tell us about the knowledge and skills you and the children in your setting have developed after engaging with us through CLPL at DigiLearnScot. Or through your own explorations in:

Learning with and Through Technology

Improving my own Digital Literacy Skills

Computing Science

Cyber Resilience Internet Safety

If you are new to DigiLearn.Scot and CLPL support from the Digital Team, you can find all relevant ELC/early level practitioner YELLOW events on our CLPL calendar on the Webinars page.

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Latest reading

Digital Evidencing of Self-Evaluation in Tweedbank Primary School ELC.

Tweedbank Primary ELC was one of the first ELC settings to be awarded with the new DSAS Digital Learning Through Play Award in ELC, earlier this year. In this blog post, Early Years Officer Amy Simpson shares a practice highlight on the whole team approach to digitally evidencing key identified… Read more

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Younger Children’s Screen Time.

Sharing our reading with you… We recently shared a variety of recommend reading links around screen time. In this post we share some more, but this time, the research and articles focus on younger children’s screen time, some including babies. Special thanks to our National Early Language and Communication Team… Read more

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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… Read more

Digital Play and Technologies in The Early Years

I am currently reading my way through Digital Play Technologies in The Early Years (Stephen, C., Brooker, L., Oberhuemer, P. and Parker-Rees, R. (2020) Digital Play and Technologies in the Early Years. Paperback. Published: 30 September 2020.) and have selected a chapter to share with you. Chapter 5: Digital Play… Read more

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‘Screentime’ – recommended reading

This page contains links to articles and papers exploring the risks of ‘screentime’ and social media and the lack of data and evidence supporting its purported impact on mental health, particularly children and young people: The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? (nature.com)… Read more