This blog post is a summary of key points in Audit Scotland’s report that might be useful for educational settings, such as schools, nurseries and local authorities to consider. Read the full report with this link Tackling digital exclusion (audit.scot). “Digital exclusion is strongly associated with poverty and people with certain protected characteristics.” Anyone working …
Over the next few months, we will be hosting a number of events to support Computing Science education in Scotland. These events include Computing Science Week(s) In Person Computing Science Conferences Pilot Review of Computing Science education as part of the Curriculum Improvement Cycle Chat CST – A virtual sharing practice event for Computing Science …
Below is a playlist of the sessions that were delivered by practitioners during TechTok24. Each video is linked below. Thanks to Russell White from Moray House for organising and hosting this successful virtual conference.
The BBC micro:bit playground survey results are here! Primary school teachers and pupils across the UK have been taking part in the BBC micro:bit playground survey. An exciting investigation to help children aged 7-11 get to grips with data science and digital skills in a way that relates to their everyday lives. Students have measured …
We are pleased to give you and your colleagues, an early heads-up on events and resources for high school teachers and students from the 5th Ada Scotland Festival 1-11 October 2024. The Ada Scotland Festival mission remains to champion gender balance in tech and computing, providing inspiration for our young people and to build a …
Keynote on the iPad allows learners the chance to create everything from simple to more complex animations directly out of the box on their device. Top 5 is aims to take you through 5 of the main features and techniques that you can use on all core apps on the iPad. Follow along with each of …
I am currently reading my way through Digital Play Technologies in The Early Years (Stephen, C., Brooker, L., Oberhuemer, P. and Parker-Rees, R. (2020) Digital Play and Technologies in the Early Years. Paperback. Published: 30 September 2020.) and have selected a chapter to share with you. Chapter 5: Digital Play as a means to develop …
This module has primarily been developed to further enhance the skills of the learners to take part in, for example, cyber competitions and challenges including the Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge. Participants will explore the challenges a country may have when dealing with a national cyber security incident from a non-technical, political, economic social and …
go to 9/12 home page In this final week of the Module, participants will explore how non-technical cyber security considerations form the foundation of national and international policy solutions. Cyber security and cyber resilience cannot be achieved by technical means alone. As weeks 1, 2 and 3 of this Module have shown, there are …
go to 9/12 home page In this unit students will be introduced to one of the most complex areas of cyber security: its relationship with international law, specifically the International Laws of Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law. Many major cyber incidents, such as Stuxnet, do not explicitly, categorically or obviously breach international …
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