Digital Literacy and Computing Science Glossary

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 …

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Summer term early level webinar dates for you diary.

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 …

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What Digital learning might look like

Digital Literacy projects and resources

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 …

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Learner Digital Skills Toolkit: where to start when planning digital literacy in Curriculum for Excellence

The support document aims to make clear the digital knowledge and skills that learners require to be digitally competent. Being digitally competent means being able to use the most common devices and apps. It is an essential step to becoming digitally literate. Being digitally literate means being able to independently use and critically engage with …

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cyber week 26th february, ai week 25th march, digital literacy week 13th may

Digital Weeks 2023/24

We’ve got some exciting dates for your calendar this school session.  Join us for: Computing Science Week wb 06/11/23  Cyber Scotland Week wb 26/02/24 Scottish AI in Education Week wb 25/03/24 Scottish Digital Literacy Week 13/05/24 Each week will have teacher training and professional learning opportunities and live lessons for teachers and learners to join …

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