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Thank you to everyone who made Scottish AI in schools week a success. We were overwhelmed by the amount of schools, teachers, and students who took the time to participate in the activities laid out during this week of collaboration and learning. We hope you all found it useful and look forward to the updates that will present themselves in the future. Read more

EARLY AND FIRST LEVEL LEARNERS LIVE LESSON. Join Isabella Lieghio (Barefoot Volunteer and Education Consultant at www.iconlearning.co.uk) in this interactive live lesson for early and first level learners, to explore one of the newest Barefoot Computing resources that has been specially created for younger to help develop their computational thinking skills, set around the context of ‘People Who Help Us’.  The activities are all based around our real-life superheroes, the people who help us every… Read more

Accompanying CLPL supporting the new Digital ELC Award for Scotland Join us in a 30-minute information giving session, introducing the brand new The New Digital ELC Award for Scotland and to find out about the new accompanying CLPL programme.  This session will be repeated 3 times in May; Monday 13th May 4-4.30pm Thursday 16th May 10-10am Friday 17th May 12.30-1pm Find out more and sign up here. Read more

Accessibility tools help people to access information. Accessibility includes technical requirements that ensure websites work well with assistive technologies such as read aloud, text to speech, and screen magnifiers. Read more here.  Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is a term that’s used to describe various methods of communication that can help people who are unable to use verbal speech to communicate. Read more here.  Consume, create and communicate content  is a term to describe what we do… Read more

Introduction to the Digital ELC Award for Scotland.  The Digital Early Learning and Childcare Digital Schools Award for Scotland is a national award scheme to promote, recognise and encourage a whole setting approach to the use of digital technology in ELC settings.   The award framework echoes national practice guidance for the early years in Scotland, Realising the Ambition: Being me (2020), which guides and supports the ELC sector to provide high quality early learning… Read more

The series of This is early level Digital and Spotlight CLPL sessions will be delivered for the final time in April and May. If you missed out on the previous webinars, there is still time to sign up. The webinars are suitable for practitioners working with children at early level across a range of ELC settings and schools.  A Glow log in is NOT required to sign up or join the online sessions. Please click… Read more

Learning and Teaching for the Future Apple Education are inviting educators from across Scotland to an inspiring half day of workshops focused on Learning and Teaching for the Future with Apple Technology. Register Here Technology has an important role to play in bringing learning to life, enabling young people to develop, refine and showcase their learning, demonstrate understanding and collaborate safely as they progress through their educational journey. This event will enable educators to explore… Read more

This section contains some recommended project-based learning resources and activities that teachers might use with learners who are secure in their digital competencies from the previous page. Digital literacy moves beyond the technical competencies in the Learner Digital Skills Toolkit and develops into critical and social skills that are relevant and representative of the realities that people live (Marín & Castañeda). In short, digital literacy should enable people to fulfil the four capacities and participate… Read more