DigiLearnScot Live Lessons: Inspiring Students and Empowering Teachers

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DigiLearnScot have been delivering live lessons across the country to support the delivery and professional learning of digital skills and Computing Science.  These live lessons have been aimed at learners and teachers in the BGE. Since October 2022, we, along with partners such as Barefoot Computing, Microbit Educational Foundation, Tech She Can, MakeItHappen, Daydream Believers …

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Over 100 Teachers Gain Computing Qualifications! Inverness College UHI’s Awards Boost Computing Education in Scotland

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Computing CPD Awards for teachers Inverness College UHI To find out more about these qualifications, contact Gordon Macpherson Gordon.MacPherson.ic@uhi.ac.uk   Additional Teaching Qualification (ATQ) in Computing Studies CPD Award Visit: CPD Award Additional Teaching Qual in Computing Studies (uhi.ac.uk) This qualification enables qualified secondary teachers to add Computing Studies as a second subject to their …

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Unplugged Computing Science Live Lesson with Barefoot

EARLY AND FIRST LEVEL LEARNERS LIVE LESSON. Join Isabella Lieghio (Barefoot Volunteer and Education Consultant at www.iconlearning.co.uk) in this interactive live lesson for early and first level learners, to explore one of the newest Barefoot Computing resources that has been specially created for younger to help develop their computational thinking skills, set around the context …

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Introducing The Digital Learning Through Play Award in ELC – CLPL Sessions

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Accompanying CLPL supporting the new Digital Learning Through Play Award in ELC. Join us in a 30-minute information giving session, introducing the brand new Digital Learning Through Play Award in ELC and to find out about the new accompanying CLPL professional learning network.  22/08/24 11 am 22/08/24 4pm 19/09/24 10am 19/09/24 4pm The Digital ELC …

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Digital Literacy and Computing Science Glossary

Accessibility tools help people to access information. Accessibility includes technical requirements that ensure websites work well with assistive technologies such as read aloud, text to speech, and screen magnifiers. Read more here.  Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is a term that’s used to describe various methods of communication that can help people who are unable to …

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Summer term early level webinar dates for you diary.

The series of This is early level Digital and Spotlight CLPL sessions will be delivered for the final time in April and May. If you missed out on the previous webinars, there is still time to sign up. The webinars are suitable for practitioners working with children at early level across a range of ELC …

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Digital Literacy projects and resources

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This section contains some recommended project-based learning resources and activities that teachers might use with learners who are secure in their digital competencies from the previous page. Digital literacy moves beyond the technical competencies in the Learner Digital Skills Toolkit and develops into critical and social skills that are relevant and representative of the realities …

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