This page contains all of the upcoming Digital Literacy opportunities for supporting learners, including webinars, courses and do-alongs. Select a post below to read more about it and to sign up to attend.
Digital Literacy for Learners Opportunities
Primary Computing Science Opportunities
This page contains all of the upcoming Computing Science opportunities, including webinars, courses and code-alongs. Select a post below to read more about it and to sign up to attend.
Teacher Leadership Programme 21/22 – Digital Enquiries
The Education Scotland Teacher Leadership Programme is designed to help participants to understand what teacher leadership means and looks like in practice. As a part of this process participants take an enquiring approach to developing an aspect of learning and teaching of their choosing as appropriate for the learners in their context. This page showcases …
North Lanarkshire Code-Alongs
Following on from the Education Scotland live code-alongs and reflecting on the participation and engagement of young people, we wanted to build on this momentum and give learners in North Lanarkshire an opportunity to code along with their peers and dive further in to Computing Science. Knowing this needed to be fun and memorable to engage …
The CPD Award in Computing Studies for Teachers
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 …
Additional Teaching Qualification in Computing Studies CPD Award
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 …
Introduction to Cyber Security for Teachers – Funded places available!
The CPD award Introduction to Cyber Security, jointly funded by Education Scotland, 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 these …
Schools Challenge for International Women in Engineering Day – 23rd June
The Civil and Environmental Engineers at Abertay University are running a video competition for INWED22 (International Women in Engineering Day – 23rd June). The challenge is open to students at Secondary Schools, Colleges, Universities and Graduates. The challenge is to create a 2 minute video which highlights: a female engineer; a structure designed by a …
Scottish schools to receive 20 micro:bits
Every primary and secondary school in Scotland will receive 20 V.2 micro:bits, in a partnership between The Micro:Bit Education Foundation, Nominet and The Scottish Government. The roll out of these devices started in May 2022 and is still continuing. Alongside this there is free comprehensive teaching resources and professional learning for all educators. Primary schools …
Save the Pacific Northwest tree octopus activity
Welcome We want to alert you to our very important activity this week: we want the learners of Scotland to help us save the Pacific Northwest tree octopus! This website has lots of great info about the octopus and ways for you to help it: Octopus website Once you’ve read a bit more about …
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