Learners should understand how computers and apps work, how to control them and solutions to simple issues, like resetting them. They should be able to use common inputs, such as keyboards, mice and touchscreens, to find their way around the device, including opening and using apps and changing settings to make it easier to …
Learner Digital Skills Toolkit: where to start when planning digital literacy in Curriculum for Excellence
The support document aims to make clear the digital knowledge and skills that learners require to be digitally competent. Being digitally competent means being able to use the most common devices and apps. It is an essential step to becoming digitally literate. Being digitally literate means being able to independently use and critically engage with …
Digital Literacy Knowledge and Skills: diamond nine activity
Discuss the importance of each skill or knowledge and order them with the most important at the top. There is not room for all cards.
Using the Teacher Digital Skills toolkit to identify and support staff needs
Milngavie Primary School, East Dunbartonshire, used the Teacher Digital Skills Toolkit to inform their professional learning. The school’s ‘digital leader’ explained how they used the toolkit: “I ran the session for collecting the data during the February in-service. It was very easy to use and being able to have the document to use alongside the …
Digital Weeks 2023/24
We’ve got some exciting dates for your calendar this school session. Join us for: Computing Science Week wb 06/11/23 Cyber Scotland Week wb 26/02/24 Scottish AI in Education Week wb 25/03/24 Scottish Digital Literacy Week 13/05/24 Each week will have teacher training and professional learning opportunities and live lessons for teachers and learners to join …
Safer Internet Day 2024
Safer Internet Day 2024 took place on the 6th of February 2024, with celebrations and learning based around the theme ‘Inspiring change? Making a difference, managing influence and navigating change online’. Safer Internet Day is held every February all around the world. Last year, over 170 different countries celebrated the day! Safer Internet Day is a …
Resource – Space Exploration Workbook
Version 1.0 This project stems from an example we created to support staff in their professional development. During a 4 part CLPL course that we run, This is Digital, we spoke about a Planning, Learning, Teaching, and Assessment cycle, and one of the aspects to this was that a well planned resource can help not …
Activity 12 – Article Breakout App Prototype
Final Day – Arctic Breakout App Prototype For this final #12DaysOfCreativity activity, you will make an app prototype that takes the lessons you have learned over the previous activities, and combine into a make your adventure, app prototype. For this Arctic Breakout app prototype, we have created a Keynote file and set it to links …
CyberFirst S2 Girls Competition 2023 Results
The CyberFirst Girls Competition aims to inspire girls interested in technology to pursue a career in cyber security. The competition is a team event. Each team, of four girls in S2, tackles challenges from cryptography and logic to artificial intelligence and networking for the chance to be crowned cyber security champions. Well done to everyone …
Activity 11 – Snowman Algorithm
Day 11 – Build a snowman algorithm How do you build a snowman? How many steps are there? What are the important features of a snowman? What steps come first, next, last etc. What position should the parts be placed in? What materials and parts will you require? (If there is no snow outside, …
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