Education Scotland hosted three highlight sessions focusing on ‘The Future of Digital in Scottish Education’. Each of these sessions included an input from a key figure in Scottish Education followed by a short question and answer session.
The Future of Digital in Scottish Education with Ollie Bray, Strategic Director Education Scotland
Education Scotland recently hosted three highlight sessions focusing on ‘The Future of Digital in Scottish Education’. In this video Ollie Bray, strategic director at Education Scotland, explores: the future ‘shiny’ v appropriate COVID technology in learning building strong digital communities practical pedagogies our digital landscape YOU CAN NOW LISTEN TO AN AUDIO ONLY VERSION OF …
Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2022 #SDLW22
Scottish Digital Literacy Week 22 is happening! #SDLW22 Put a hold in your planner for the week of the 3rd of October 2022 and join us for exciting interactive live digital literacy lessons. We’ll have more details of what to expect in these lessons nearer the time, resources you might require and skills you’ll need. …
The Ada Scotland Festival, Oct, 2022: Addressing Gender Imbalance in Computing Science
It’s well known that Computing Science has much to do in way of gender balance. According to a report published by the BCS (2020), just 12% of pupils taking National 5 Computing Science in Scotland in 2020 were female. This figure falls to 7% for female pupils taking Computing Science at Higher, and just 2% …
Be part of Nature Discovery Map Scotland – an education toolkit
Are you interested in developing your skills in technologies and digital literacy? Would you like to collaborative with fellow educators and digital experts? Join our pilot project September 2022 – March 2023! NatureScot are looking for educators to help create and pilot a Scottish version of the UK Government Initiative the National Education Nature Park. …
Digital Literacy Planning Support Document
This webinar will provide first access to the brand-new Digital Literacy Planning Support document (currently for first and second level) from Education Scotland. This document is designed to support educators plan, resource and assess digital literacy in a range of contexts with distinct themes, example activities and skills and knowledge identified for each distinct context …
ON DEMAND DigiLearnScot: Developing ideas using animations (Keynote & iPad)
In this lesson from DigiLearn learners will go through a step-by-step tutorial to create an animation using the Keynote app on iPad. Animating ideas is an excellent way for pupils to visualise and share their knowledge. From animations describing the journey of Jacobite soldiers, to story boarding ideas for a creative writing project. Using out …
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 …
ON DEMANDDigiLearnScot: App Prototyping
Join the DigiLearn team for a live lesson exploring the impact of apps on our lives and lead learners through the steps to create their very own app designs. Designing apps is a great way to work together and solve challenges that exist in the community. This virtual app prototyping activity will give aspiring coders …
Screening Shorts: reading film and images
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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