go to Digital Literacy for Learners This section aims to build on the digital skills for learners toolkit. It offers ideas, guidance and resources for applying digital skills in a range of contexts to be more purposeful and creative.
Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025
Scottish Digital Literacy Week is back for 2025! Click the link below to find details of upcoming events and sign-up details Click here for our events page! Catch up with recaps of the events hosted throughout the week below: Any time Four Capacities challenge The four capacities are central to our curriculum, and therefore learning, …
AI in Schools Week 2025 – Catch Up Resources – CLPL and Live Lessons
Welcome to out Catch Up Gallery of recordings from AI in Schools Week 2025. You will find recordings of CLPL sessions and live lessons on this page. Check out our dedicated AI page > Artificial Intelligence in Scottish Education: What you need to know – DigiLearn You can access the AI Readiness Self Evaluation Tool …
Recommended reading: Critical Play; Radical Game Design by Mary Flanagan
This blog is a summary of Mary Flanagan’s book Critical Play; Radical Game Design. This was recommended by Dr Tom Brock, who is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester Met, after he spoke at the recent Scottish Esports Conference 2024. With the book on order, it was only possible to access the first chapter …
Game Maker
go to Making Games page GameMaker is a development tool for making 2D games, used by indie developers, professional studios, and educators worldwide. Users can create games for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, HTML5, Xbox, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch. Remember to check with your local authority data security team/officer before registering any learners …
Microsoft MakeCode Arcade
go to Making Games page Microsoft MakeCode Arcade is a free online learn-to-code platform where anyone can build games. Remember to check with your local authority data security team/officer before registering any learners as users. Find out more about MakeCode Educator guides using this link – MakeCode Arcade Educator Page
Restore by Glitchers – a game about land use
Restore by GLITCHERS Restore is part of an academic research project called RestoreID (HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01-17). This research project investigates the relationship between nature restoration, biodiversity, and disease prevention. The restore game is led by Dr Brad Duthie and Prof Nils Bunnefeld at the University of Stirling. The game will take between 5-20 minutes to play, …
Playing games
go to the Games in Education page This section aims to support educators to provide opportunities to play games in education. Games are valuable, meaningful and engaging to people of all ages, including children and young people. Play is a valuable and recognised aspect of learning and child development. Below are links to information, ideas …
AI CodeAlong – Control A Fish With Your Voice – Recap
This is a recap for you and your class to follow along to that will show you how to create a voice recognition AI using https://machinelearningforkids.co.uk/ and connect that to a simple Scratch project where you can use your AI to control a fish sprite! Based on the activity done as part of the code …
Scratch CodeAlong: Build A Language Translator – Recap
This is a recap for you and your class to follow along to that will show you how to create a multi-language translator tool in Scratch! Based on the activity done as part of the code along during AI in Schools Week 2025. The video takes you through how to build the program that asks …
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