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Our Teacher Digital Skills Toolkit has been available for over a year now. It contains guidance on what skills and knowledge teachers in Scotland should have to meet the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) standard for registration, which requires teachers to be ‘digitally literate’. There is also short videos… Read more
Ted Palenski from the University of Glasgow delivered this live lesson aimed at children and young people of all ages. Artificial intelligence has long been a component of search engines: how results are surfaced, ranked, and presented. This session breaks down how search engines work, and how they increasingly leverage… Read more
David Lundie from the University of Glasgow delivered this webinar during Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025. The Teaching for Digital Citizenship project has been working with teachers, young people, ethicists and the EdTech sector across the 4 nations of the UK, to understand the aims, practices and challenges… Read more
This video was recorded during Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025. It features Sharon Alexander, who is Principal Teacher at Carnwath Primary School – that was the first school in Scotland to achieve all four digital awards: Digital Schools Award Primary Digital Schools Award Europe Digital Wellbeing Equitable Creative Coding… Read more
Scottish Digital Literacy Week is back for 2025! Click the link below to find details of upcoming events and sign-up details Click here for our events page! Catch up with recaps of the events hosted throughout the week below: Any time Four Capacities challenge The four capacities are central to… Read more
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- If you missed Computing Science Scotland Week, we have (most!) sessions available for you to view again! (Unfortunately the tech gremlins appeared in a few recordings!) These videos, and many others are available to watch… …
- Digital Xtra Fund launches eighth funding round to drive digital skills for young people across Scotland Digital Xtra Fund has launched this year’s Round VIII (2023/24) Grant Awards, with the aim to help drive digital skills… …
- DigiLearn.Chat A podcast from the digital learning & teaching team at Education Scotland. Throughout this series, team members will come together to talk about experiences, courses, resources and stories from our experiences of working with… …
- This session's Cyber Scotland Week will take place 27th February - 5th March 2023.Let us know what you're up to on twitter @digilearnscot with #CSW2023 Education Scotland will be delivering and supporting live sessions all… …Latest posts
- Island Saver is a free-to-play game from NatWest. It is designed to develop children and young people's understanding of finance, including saving and tax. It can be played on consoles or iPad. Find out more… …
- This 4 part professional learning network is for ELC practitioners working in ELC settings in Scotland who aspire to become DSAS awarded settings with the new Digital Learning Through Play in ELC Award. You can join… …
- Scotland’s first National Innovation Week will take place later this year, Business Minister Richard Lochhead has announced today. Taking place from Monday 22 September to Friday 26 September, it will celebrate Scotland’s proud legacy of… …
- The Glasgow Independent Games Festival is officially set to take place on 9th August 2025 at the community revered Barras Art and Design (BAaD) Building. This year’s festival promises to be a vibrant celebration of independent game… …
- Are you running, or interested in running, esports in your setting? Join Phase25 at Murrayfield stadium, and explore the dynamic intersection of academia and esports, emphasising the profound impact of integrating esports into educational curricula.… …
- The digital team at North Lanarkshire Council have shared this summary of their recent work using Minecraft with primary school learners. To find out more get in touch with X at North Lanarkshire Council. …
- To mark the end of 2025/26 academic session, we will run a week of Live Lessons from 15th to 19th June 2026. Specific details are TBC and we will share updates as and when they become… …
- go to the Games in Education page This section contains link to resources, training and inspiration for educators who want to teach about games. This could be considered reading and writing about games or using… …
- Our Teacher Digital Skills Toolkit has been available for over a year now. It contains guidance on what skills and knowledge teachers in Scotland should have to meet the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS)… …
- Digital Creators Week is an opportunity for learners to put their digital skills to use and create content in a variety of media forms. This week of action packed live lessons will run during the week… …
- Scottish AI in Schools Week 2026Â will run during the week of 9th March 2026. As before, the week will be a mixture of Live Lessons, Success Sharing, Educator Webinars, and Partner Provider sessions. Specific sessions… …
- CyberScotlandWeek invites individuals, organisations and communities across Scotland to raise awareness of cyber security and strengthen our collective cyber resilience. It is organised by CyberScotland Partnership, who are a collaboration of key stakeholders brought together by… …
- To mark the end of 2025, we will run a week of Live Lessons from 1st to 5th December 2025. Specific details are TBC and we will share updates as and when they become available. Live… …
- Computing Science Week 2025 will run during the week of 3rd November 2025. As before, the week will be a mixture of Live Lessons, Success Sharing Sessions, Educator Webinars, and Partner Provider sessions. Specific sessions… …
- We are excited to be supporting Scottish Games Fest throughout September 2025. There will be a range of sessions from ES and partners each week, including: game playing game making esports learning with and through… …
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