Unwelcome friend/follow requests or messages (20%) and unwanted sexual messages (8%) account for 28% of the potential risks encountered by UK internet users aged 13+ (Ofcom, 2022). Understanding how the platform works can help children and young people reduce the likelihood of this potential risk by managing who can and cannot contact them. back …
13 March 16:00, This Is Data Session 1
This Is Data You may have seen spreadsheet dashboards that react to user interactions, automatically filtering and updating charts and tables. Ever wondered how to do it? This short course will support you to develop your skills to store and process data using tools you already use. These sessions will show you how to use …
Communicate: email
Communicate: direct messaging
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
Cyber Toolkit: Consume
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, …
Cyber Toolkit for Teachers
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 …
Cyber Toolkit: Create (NEW)
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 …
Cyber Toolkit: Communicate (NEW)
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 …
Teacher Digital Skills toolkit
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 …
The DigiLearn Team
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 …
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