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How Eildon West is Transforming Teaching with AI.

In the Eildon West Cluster in the Scottish Borders, we’ve been exploring how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support teachers in their daily work. Through a series of Continuing Professional Learning (CLPL) sessions, created by Suzanne Pritchard and Krista Ainslie,  we’ve been learning together about how AI tools can make teaching more productive, creative, and accessible …

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Tinderbox games club

Tinderbox Games Collective

Tinderbox is a collective of young people, musicians, artists and youth workers in Scotland. Their work uses music and the arts to bring people together and strengthen communities, providing exciting opportunities that support young people to build their confidence, skills, self-esteem, and professional experience.  Find out more about Tinderbox here – tinderboxcollective.org Tinderbox Games Clubs …

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making games

Making games

 go to the Games in Education page This section contains information and resources to support educators make games with learners. As valuable as playing games is the opportunity to make them.  Below are some free-to-use game making platforms. Registering learners as users will require your local authority’s guidance on data security – please check …

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esports

Esports

 go to the Games in Education page This section is home to information, resources and links to esports in Scottish education. Esports is competitive video-gaming. There are now huge competitions and events organised around these games and this is often spoken about as much as the actual game playing in the esports industry. There …

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Digital Evidencing of Self-Evaluation in Tweedbank Primary School ELC.

Tweedbank Primary ELC was one of the first ELC settings to be awarded with the new DSAS Digital Learning Through Play Award in ELC, earlier this year. In this blog post, Early Years Officer Amy Simpson shares a practice highlight on the whole team approach to digitally evidencing key identified areas for improvement, at Tweedbank …

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Winter Scratch CodeAlong – 9th Dec, 11am

This session, facilitated by Rebecca from Code Club is aimed at learners have had some experience with Scratch. Join Rebecca from Code Club and create a wintery wonderland animation in Scratch. You will learn to use loops, create clones of sprites, use sensing, and operator blocks! This codealong is suitable for learners who have some prior …

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