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 and examples for teaching them …
This guidance is an update to the Teacher Digital Skills published previously. It aims to support the development of digital skills for all Scottish educators, including Early Years and Childcare, school and Community Learning and Development sectors. Education Scotland digital skills for Scottish educators 2025 I want to take the survey Use this link …
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 materials used in the lessons …
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 were working late on paperwork from your recent DATA mission and you’ve realised that you’ve been locked in the base. …
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 ask for a light to be switched on/off or a fan to be switched on/off, tested this model and used …
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 timer. The recording of this session didn’t work very well, so here is an alternative instructional tutorial from Micro:bit. Next …
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, algorithms, parallel programming and loops. Resources Learners should have access a device that can access Microsoft MakeCode Arcade 30 minute tutorial …
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 the coding is done in a web browser with no other software required. Larger screen devices are preferable as learners …
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Resources from Games Design Workshops 6/11/23 and 8/11/23 Amanda Ford from West College Scotland took participants through Game Design techniques focussing on the purpose and scope of the game, followed by a session on level and character design. The resources are available for you to use as you wish. You can use the slides to …
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