Join us to discover how the digital schools award framework can support your setting to lead digital learning, teaching and assessment. Hear from a DSAS validator and leaders from an ELC and Primary setting share how the framework helped transform and embed digital across the curriculum.
Digital Schools Awards is a national awards scheme to promote, recognise and encourage a whole school approach to the use of digital technology in schools.
The Digital Schools Award Scotland is a 3-step programme to help schools assess progress and recognise excellence in the use of digital technology at nursery, primary, special education and secondary level while providing practical support and encouragement.
A staff Glow account will be required to access the Microsoft Team where the session will take place.
Would you like to enhance your skills, knowledge and confidence in early level digital skills and digital literacy?If the answer is ‘yes’ then our summer term ELC practitioner digital meet ups can help you.
The Digital Skills Team at Education Scotland are offering weekly meet up session to discuss various digital topics within the context of ELC.
Each week, a video in relating to the weekly topic will be added to this page, so that you can familiarise yourself with the discussion topic content and information before attending the meet up session. The videos can also be accessed earlier, via the Eventbrite sign up form.
It is a good idea to watch prior the videos before joining the meet up to ensure you have had time to become familiar with the information and perhaps try out some of the suggested activities prior to the meet up.
During the meet up, we will recap the key points from the video, have the opportunity to share thoughts, ask questions and discuss how learning can be taken forward in your own contexts.
The meet ups are for all practitioners working in the early learning and childcare sector in Scotland, based in an ELC setting, school, private/voluntary/independent settings and childminders.
The meet up sessions will be held in a Microsoft Teams meeting, via a join link that will be emailed to you once you have signed up through Eventbrite. You do not require a Glow log in to join.
Please click on the images below to access more information, including the descriptors or via the hyperlinks in the list of sessions.
SSERC and Education Scotland have teamed up to bring you the CRIS mentor programme. It is designed to build confidence and to develop understanding of a number of issues related to cyber resilience and internet safety in the teacher community across Scotland. The knowledge and experience gained by delegates through the programme can then be used, along with the provided resources, to mentor other staff and pupils within their school communities.
The programme focusses on 4 key areas of CRIS:
Digital Footprint
Passwords and Encryption
Dealing with Online Issues
Securing your devices
The Digilearn team will be available for drop-in workshops, where you can ask questions, discuss ideas and share resources. These sessions will be:
SSERC and Education Scotland have teamed up to bring you the CRIS mentor programme. It is designed to build confidence and to develop understanding of a number of issues related to cyber resilience and internet safety in the teacher community across Scotland. The knowledge and experience gained by delegates through the programme can then be used, along with the provided resources, to mentor other staff and pupils within their school communities.
The programme focusses on 4 key areas of CRIS:
Digital Footprint
Passwords and Encryption
Dealing with Online Issues
Securing your devices
The Digilearn team will be available for drop-in workshops, where you can ask questions, discuss ideas and share resources. These sessions will be:
When you teach code, you’re not only teaching the language of technology. You’re teaching new ways to think and bring ideas to life. And Apple has all the resources to help you bring code into your classroom.
Get Into Code with iPad
Aim
To explore Apple’s Everyone Can Code curriculum and the Swift Playgrounds app for iPad to start teaching code in your classroom in a fun and accessible way.
Audience
All Primary sector educators who are curious about coding
Requirements
An iPad with the latest version of the Swift Playgrounds app and the Everyone Can Code Puzzles Teacher Guide installed is desirable, but not essential
Download Swift Playgrounds for iPad
Everyone Can Code – Teacher Guide
Get into Code with iPad – Workshop 1
In this workshop, participants will learn how to:
• think about things that use code
• identify every day objects that use code
• try out coding with Swift Playgrounds
• discover ways to incorporate code into the classroom in a fun and accessible way
When you teach code, you’re not only teaching the language of technology. You’re teaching new ways to think and bring ideas to life. And Apple has all the resources to help you bring code into your classroom.
Get Into Code with iPad
Aim
To explore Apple’s Everyone Can Code curriculum and the Swift Playgrounds app for iPad to start teaching code in your classroom in a fun and accessible way.
Audience
All Primary sector educators who are curious about coding
Requirements
An iPad with the latest version of the Swift Playgrounds app and the Everyone Can Code Puzzles Teacher Guide installed is desirable, but not essential
Download Swift Playgrounds for iPad
Everyone Can Code – Teacher Guide
Get into Code with iPad – Workshop 1
In this workshop, participants will learn how to:
• think about things that use code
• identify every day objects that use code
• try out coding with Swift Playgrounds
• discover ways to incorporate code into the classroom in a fun and accessible way
Tap to book your place
Get into Code with iPad – Workshop 2
In this workshop, participants will learn how to:
• build on their knowledge of code from workshop 1
• identify coding concepts through games
• continue to explore coding using Swift Playgrounds
• discover ways to incorporate code into the classroom in a fun and accessible way
Tap to book your place
Get into Code with iPad – App Design
In this workshop, participants will learn how to:
• think about solving a problem in their community and design an app
• explore ideas and get started guided by the design process
• collaboratively brainstorm, plan and prototype an app using Keynote
• create a presentation to pitch their ideas as part of a showcase
• discover ways to incorporate the customisable resources into the classroom in a fun and accessible way using the Apple Everyone Can Code resources
The ELC practitioner meet up theme for this week is Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety.
This session aims to bring together practitioners working with early level learners from all across the Early Learning and Childcare sector in Scotland.
The session will be an informal, discussion based meet up session, exploring and sharing how ELC practitioners are introducing Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety at early level. This sessions aims is to support you and to equip with the knowledge and confidence to embed cyber resilience and internet safety at early level through a practical play-based approach. This session will clarify what the experience and outcome means in the context of play and everyday conversations and what this might look like in your own settings.
There will be opportunity to ask questions, talk about resources and share examples of practice and feedback if you so wish, including sharing your screen to show photos and videos if you have the permission to do so.
This series of meet up sessions are designed around a flipped learning model. Prior to attending the meet up, you are invited to watch a video of a webinar recording (around 60 minutes in length). This will ensure you have more flexibility to become familiar with the meet up theme and perhaps try out some of the suggested activities prior to the meet up.
This session will take place within a Microsoft Teams meeting.
You will NOT require a Glow login for this webinar.
The pre meet up session recording can be accessed below.
More about the ELC practitioner meet up summer sessions:
Would you like to enhance your skills, knowledge and confidence in early level digital skills and digital literacy?
If the answer is ‘yes’ then our summer term ELC practitioner digital meet ups can help you.
The Digital Skills Team at Education Scotland are offering weekly meet up session to discuss various digital topics within the context of ELC.
Each week, a video in relating to the weekly topic will be released, so that you can familiarise yourself with the discussion topic content and information before attending the meet up session. The videos can also be accessed earlier, via the Eventbrite sign up form.
It is a good idea to watch prior the videos before joining the meet up to ensure you have had time to become familiar with the information and perhaps try out some of the suggested activities prior to the meet up.
During the meet up, we will recap the key points from the video, have the opportunity to share thoughts, ask questions and discuss how learning can be taken forward in your own contexts.
The meet ups are for all practitioners working in the early learning and childcare sector in Scotland, based in an ELC setting, school, private/voluntary/independent settings and childminders.
The meet up sessions will be held in a Microsoft Teams meeting, via a join link that will be emailed to you once you have signed up through Eventbrite. You do not require a Glow log in to join.
Please click on the images below to access more information about all the other sessions in this series, including the descriptors or via the hyperlinks in the list of sessions.
This workshop will explore the basics of Google Docs. It will give you an opportunity to see how the Docs app works and see examples of how it could be used with your learners. The first part of the session will be led by the Digilearn team but the second part will allow you to offer ideas, ask questions and share examples with others on the call.
This workshop will explore the basics of Google Classroom. It will give you an opportunity to see how the Classroom platform works and see examples of how it could be used with your learners. The first part of the session will be led by the Digilearn team but the second part will allow you to offer ideas, ask questions and share examples with others on the call.
A staff Glow account will be required to access the Microsoft Team where the session will take place
Micro:bit Educational Foundation will help you discover the free micro:bit classroom tool – a user-friendly online lesson platform that enables coding lessons in person and remotely, with no registration or installation required. Set up lessons on MakeCode and Python in seconds, save student progress & save time.
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