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Join the team as we celebrate 12 Days of Creativity. With tips and Digital Literacy examples that can be translated and used in your classrooms.  Examples will be live at 8am on the following dates: Day 1: 1st December – Code a snow globe with Scratch Day 2: 4th December… Read more

digital literacy series

 DigiLearnScot home This section contains a series of three documents designed to support educators in delivering the Scottish Government Digital Learning and Teaching Strategy (2016). The three documents detail: the digital skills and knowledge that teachers require for their workplace the skills and knowledge that learners require, with contexts… Read more

Computing Science Scotland 2023 Many thanks to the learners, educators and presenters that made #CSScotland23 a success! Between 6th-10th November 2023, 9658 learners from 384 schools from 29 local authorities took part in our live create-along lessons, exploring different aspects of Computing Science.  This page will host the resources and… Read more

Join us and our partners from across the country to celebrate Computing Science!  For the week of Monday 6th – Friday 10th November 2023, we are delighted to be delivering a host of live lessons exploring different aspects of Computing Science. During this week you and and your learners can… Read more

scottish computing science conference

Open to all early years practitioners, primary school teachers, and secondary school teachers who teach Computing. During this unmissable event, you will have the opportunity to hear from industry experts who will share insights into future career prospects and to attend practical breakout sessions designed to empower you with innovative… 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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Day 6 #12DaysofCreativity - Day 6 - Create a Podcast For Day 6 of #12DaysofCreativity we will explore creating a podcast on your iPad using GarageBand. This is a great activity to build pupil confidence, develop their literacy skills,…
- Day 5 - The sound of Christmas   What does Christmas sound like? What does it sound like outside? What does it sound like indoors?        Use your senses to see, touch, smell…
12 Days of Creativity Day 4 - Day 4 - Green Screen Scanner One of the most powerful features of having a device in your class, is the ability to use the camera to capture content. On iPad this can open a…
- Play the video to find out what's behind door number 3! It's Your Turn! You can learn how to do this and add some customisation by watching the tutorials on this page! There are few…
12 days day 2 - Day 2 - Memoji Storytelling Create and stage festive characters with expressive Memoji heads to tell a story using AR. For this activity it is advisable that you have an iPad, Keynote, and ARMakr Before…
Creativity image. Man dressed in Santa hat carrying gifts - Join the team as we celebrate 12 Days of Creativity. With tips and Digital Literacy examples that can be translated and used in your classrooms.  Examples will be live at 8am on the following dates:…
12 days of creativity day 1 - Play the video to find out what's behind door number 1! It's Your Turn! You can learn how to do this and add some customisation by watching the tutorials below!   We'd love to hear…
- The Everyone Can Create resources make it quick and easy for teachers to bring creativity into any lesson and foster creative expression in every pupil. The Apple Education Community has several examples and stories of…
digital literacy series -  DigiLearnScot home This section contains a series of three documents designed to support educators in delivering the Scottish Government Digital Learning and Teaching Strategy (2016). The three documents detail: the digital skills and knowledge…
- Computing Science Scotland 2023 Many thanks to the learners, educators and presenters that made #CSScotland23 a success! Between 6th-10th November 2023, 9658 learners from 384 schools from 29 local authorities took part in our live…
- Recap Huge thanks to Data Education in Schools for running this session! Agents K (Kate Farrell) and J (Jasmeen Kanwall) guided recruits through a series of taxing problems during this escape room event.  Brief: You…
- Recap on session and resources During this session, Brian explored machine learning using the website machinelearningforkids.co.uk. Learners were guided through one activity where learners trained a machine learning model to recognise different ways someone might…
- Recap Lorna Gibson from the Micro:Bit Education Foundation guided learners through a coding activity to turn you micro:bit into a (virtual!) hot potato!  This particular activity looks at using loops and variables to create a…
- Callum Croughan, Mary Frances Stewart, Zoe Shanks and Alistair Mackay –  Digital School Digital Pedagogy Practitioners guided learners through building a maze game using Makecode Arcade  Learners explored aspects of computing science such as variables,…
- This live lesson saw Craig and Daniel from Cyber Skills Live guide participants through using data about themselves to create an abstract self portrait using code. (This is activity 5 on the website).  All of…