Evaluating data, information and digital content

Information and Data Literacy Home Practitioners should be able: to analyse, compare and critically evaluate the credibility and reliability of sources of data, information and digital content to analyse, interpret and critically evaluate the data, information and digital content and the impact of algorithms/systems on this. Support and examples ‘Maddie is Online’: a creative learning …

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Resilience

Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety Home Practitioners should be able: To know how to recognise, react and recover appropriately to incidents involving devices, data, wellbeing and identity in relation to yourself and others. Support and examples This resource is to support you recover for any cyber incident.  The first aid box includes cyber security advice …

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Protecting personal data and privacy

Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety Home Practitioners should be able: to create and manage one or multiple digital identities (separate work and personal), to be able to protect one’s own reputation to deal with the data that one produces through several digital tools, environments and services.   Support and Examples This SQA level 3 cyber security …

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Protecting Devices

Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety Home Practitioners should be able: To protect devices and digital content, and to understand risks and threats in digital environments. To understand safety and security measures and to have due regard to reliability and privacy. Support and Examples   Parental controls from internetmatters.org will give you knowledge on how to …

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Additional Teaching Qualification in Computing Studies CPD Award (2023) at University of Highlands and Islands

The course is designed to allow you to teach computing within secondary schools as it has the required numbers of credits stated by the GTCS. The programme is designed to be a roll on roll off programme as each of the units are separate although designed to encompass what is involved in the computing curriculum …

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Introduction to Cyber Security for Teachers (2023) at University of the Highlands and Islands – Funded places available

The CPD award Introduction to Cyber Security was created for ALL primary and secondary teachers and designed to give background knowledge and understanding related to teaching basic cybersecurity and configuring an environment suitable for cybersecurity education. The module allows you to get a basic practical understanding of cybersecurity and cyber resilience and the relationship between …

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The CPD Award in Computing Studies for Teachers (2023) at The University of the Highlands and Islands

The CPD award in Computing Studies for teachers was created for primary teachers and secondary teachers for 1st and 2nd year pupils to give the confidence and skills to teach computing to pupils. More than 50% of our current cohort are primary school teachers. The course is open to any teacher with the relevant entry …

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Your Voice Is Power: Enrich your computing curriculum by bringing together music, coding & entrepreneurship

“Your Voice is Power”? A collaboration between @Pharrell @GeorgiaTech @YELLOWORG @CompAtSch &@AmazonUK BCS are teaming up with Amazon Future Engineer, Georgia Tech and YELLOW to bring you the Your Voice is Power UK competition: an opportunity for students aged 11-18 can make beats, learn code, and promote equity. From the Your Voice is Power curriculum …

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