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Half of 3-15-year-olds use WhatsApp, despite the minimum age requirement of 16 WhatsApp was the most popular online communications service among children in 2021 for sending messages or making video and voice calls, used by 50% of children aged 3-15
Teachers should focus on understanding how learners are using online platforms – do they consume, create or communicate? This section focuses on the risks of using online platforms to consume content. Content that is consumed is created by others and shared online by individuals or organisations and can be any form of media, including video, …
The Cyber Toolkit is designed to help teachers find the most appropriate and useful advice, information and resources to support learners to learn how to go be safer and more secure online. go to cyber home DigiLearnScot home When we use the internet we either consume, create or communicate. Each of these behaviours …
Teachers should focus on understanding how learners are using online platforms – do they consume, create or communicate? This section focuses on the risks of using devices and online platforms to create content. This can be any form of media, including video, photos, text or games. Creating content carries less risk than consuming or communicating …
Teachers should focus on understanding how learners are using online platforms – do they consume, create or communicate? This section focuses on the risks of using online platforms to communicate. 69% of children aged 3-15 used an online communications service for making voice/video calls or sending messages in 2022 (Ofcom). The Cyber First Aid Box …
The toolkit document outlines the skills and knowledge that comprise digital literacy in the General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS)’s standards. The skills are organised into three levels: Essential skills that are required by every teacher to engage with daily work routines, such as passwords and emails Core skills that most teachers should have to effectively …
This page features details about our team’s members and how to contact them. Each of our team covers different aspects of digital, computing and cyber but we also specialise in some of these areas and other external, non-digital aspects of learning. So, you may have spoken to one of our team and they recommended another …
In this live lesson, for second level learners and above, we will send messages between two or more BBC micro:bits (this is possible with the simulator and with actual devices). To protect our messages, we will use some simple encryption to ensure that our messages cannot be intercepted and read anyone other than who we …
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 among young people. To date, the Fund has secured almost £1 million to deliver coding and tech clubs and initiatives …
Join this interactive read along of ‘Hanni and the Magic Window’ performed by the author Ami Lockwood, Childnet. Hanni and the Magic Window is brought to you by UK Safer Internet Centre and Childnet. An online safety story without any technology! This story is written for children aged 3 and up. It is a rhyming …
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