DigiLearnScot: Keeping my devices and accounts more secure (Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety) lesson

Learners will explore how their devices store data, how they connect to the internet, and how to keep them more secure   Learners will: identify the things (data) that they value on their device, and why it is valuable explore how to keep their device and data more secure, including passwords and other security features …

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Screening Shorts: reading film and images

Screening Shorts

This live lesson will give your learners an opportunity to explore film and screen images as texts. They will explore strategies to make predictions about a film, then use still images from the film to learn about sequencing a screen narrative, leading to the first steps to creating their own short film. The text we’ll be exploring is ‘Mobile’ on Screening Shorts (GLOW LOGIN REQUIRED).  In this …

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CALL Scotland Professional Learning Offer

CALL Scotland help children and young people across Scotland to overcome disability and barriers to learning using Assistive Technology. Their small team of teachers, Speech and Language Therapists, Assistive Technologists and support staff are based at the University of Edinburgh.  We have Service Level Agreements with 18 out of 32 Local Authorities and travel all …

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Google Certification Programme

Google for Education Certification Programme: September – December 2022 Sign up here Scotland’s Learn with Google Programme launched in May and had more than 250 educators complete their Google Certified Educator (GCE) training. The programme is back, with Level 1 sessions kicking off in September and Level 2 sessions in November.   These are fully-funded and …

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Digital Critical Friends – ScotlandIS and DYW Glasgow

What is this project? In response to the Logan Review, ScotlandIS has worked with DYW Glasgow to develop an innovative and responsive project to provide every secondary school  in Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, and South Lanarkshire with a senior tech expert at their disposal – these are Digital Critical Friends.     ScotlandIS aim to raise awareness of …

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Parents’ Cyber First Aid Box

Parents' Cyber First Aid Box

The Cyber First Aid Box is designed to support families recover from online harms. Designed in partnership with Decode Cyber Solutions and Education Scotland’s Digital Skills team – it is a free resource available to everyone.  Clicking on the image or link will open a new browser tab to the Cyber First Aid Box website. …

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