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Teaching for Digital Citizenship

  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

How Carnwath Primary became Scotland's digital trailblazer

  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! Any time Four Capacities challenge The four capacities are central to our curriculum, and therefore learning, in Scotland. We want to know what… Read more

Welcome 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

thoughts on critical play: radical games design by mary flanagan

This blog is a summary of Mary Flanagan’s book Critical Play; Radical Game Design. This was recommended by Dr Tom Brock, who is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Met, after he spoke at the recent Scottish Esports Conference 2024. With the book on order, it was only possible… 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 now open - 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…
Listen to digilearn chat podcast - 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…

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Teaching for Digital Citizenship -   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…
How Carnwath Primary became Scotland's digital trailblazer -   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…
create and edit media - Learners should understand how digital technology can be used to create and edit media, such as photos, videos and audio. They know how to create media and are able t edit, including cropping, trimming, filtering…
reading and writing with digital - ​  George Milliken​ Mon 14/04/2025 12:50     engage with and create a wide range of texts in different media, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by ICT   Texts The literacy and English…
developing learners digital literacy -    go to Digital Literacy for Learners This section aims to build on the digital skills for learners toolkit. It offers ideas, guidance and resources for applying digital skills in a range of contexts to…
- 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! Any time Four Capacities challenge The four capacities…
- Welcome 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…
thoughts on critical play: radical games design by mary flanagan - This blog is a summary of Mary Flanagan’s book Critical Play; Radical Game Design. This was recommended by Dr Tom Brock, who is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Met, after he spoke at…
Game Maker -  go to Making Games page GameMaker is a development tool for making 2D games, used by indie developers, professional studios, and educators worldwide. Users can create games for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, HTML5,…
microsoft make code arcade -  go to Making Games page Microsoft MakeCode Arcade is a free online learn-to-code platform where anyone can build games. Remember to check with your local authority data security team/officer before registering any learners as…
restore by glitchers - land use game - Restore by GLITCHERS   Restore is part of an academic research project called RestoreID (HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01-17). This research project investigates the relationship between nature restoration, biodiversity, and disease prevention. The restore game is led by Dr…
playing games - go to the Games in Education page This section aims to support educators to provide opportunities to play games in education. Games are valuable, meaningful and engaging to people of all ages, including children and…
- This 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…
- This 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…
- back to learning, teaching and assessment home   Learning at home  Review feedback from self, peer or teacher  Follow-up, finish off or share with family engagement  Use this to start next lesson