Author: George Milliken

October 20, 2022

Technology Assisted Harmful Sexual Behaviour with Stop It Now

Technology Assisted Harmful Sexual Behaviour (TAHSB) is unfortunately an issue that educators deal with on a daily basis. It impacts on friendships and relationships of everyone involved. However, it is important that educators understand what it is, how to identify it, and how to support the learners involved.

Stop It Now! Scotland is part of a child protection charity that believes that the key to preventing sexual abuse is awareness among parents and community members. They work to build public confidence in recognising and responding to concerns about the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.

With their experience of delivering the Rosa project in Glasgow, they were are an obvious choice to support us to develop our TAHSB professional learning course. This course is designed to support educators to:

develop their knowledge and awareness of TAHSB
increase their confidence in identifying and categorising the TAHSB they are dealing with in school
take action to help the learners they are supporting with TAHSB

Enquire about TAHSB training

School guidance document for responding to TA-HSB

Education Scotland Tackling TA HSB Digital Resource

October 20, 2022

03 December 4pm, This is Digital: assessment

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October 20, 2022

02 December 4pm, This is Digital: teaching

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01 December 4pm, This is Digital: planning

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October 20, 2022

This is Digital Learning and Teaching professional learning programme

This is Digital Learning, Teaching and Assessment is a professional learning programme to support teachers evaluate their use of digital and develop their practice.

Want one-off webinars? Go to Webinars

Need support with your digital literacy skills and knowledge? Go to Teacher Digital Literacy

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Information about the course

Why this course?
This is Digital Learning, Teaching and Assessment is an ongoing programme of professional learning aiming to support teachers make more effective use of digital in and out of the classroom to enhance learning and teaching.

How it works?
It runs once per term and three times per year. There are currently three sessions in the programme.

It is designed to meet level 3 of the Kirkpatrick model and requires evidence of a change in practice. It is suggested that a very simple, time-efficient micro-enquiry is carried out. This should demonstrate a change made as a result of the learning and the impact of this in on a group of learners or educators.

What it covers?
Attendees will be required to participate in online discussions using chat, whiteboards and discussion features. They will consider aspects of planning, teaching and assessment and feedback and the use of digital to enhance these.

Attendee requirements:
Attendees should be digitally with online platforms, such as Microsoft365 and Google Workspace, or devices such as laptops, Chromebooks or iPads. Certifications such as Apple Teacher, Microsoft Educator or Google Teacher are recommended prior learning.

Attendance at all sessions is required for validated certificate of completion.

The programme is currently split into three themes:

This is Digital: Planning

This is Digital: Teaching

This is Digital: Assessment and Feedback

July 26, 2022

Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety in Primary Schools

The Experiences and Outcomes for Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety (CRIS) can be found under the Digital Literacy organiser in the Technologies curricular area. However, there are many opportunities to link it into other areas of the curriculum, including literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing.

This page provides information, ideas and resources to support you plan for teaching CRIS as a discreet area with its own skills and knowledge but also how to incorporate it into other others of the curriculum too.

What to teach and when to teach it

The first thing to understand is that even as apps and devices change, the way we use the internet has not really changed since its conception in the 1960s. We, adults, chidlren and young people, all use the internet to consume, create and communicate. For example, you might read the news (consume), write an email (create), and video call someone (communicate).

Regardless of the device, platform or service these behaviours have been consistent for a long time. Therefore it is worth focusing on these key areas when planning learnign or supporting children and young people with their online lives:
CONSUME
CREATE
COMMUNICATE

By understanding these behaviours, you will be clearer about the appropriate learnign or guidance that they will require.

CONSUME

CREATE

COMMUNICATE

July 13, 2022

Assessment and Feedback with Google Workspace

Google Workspace has tools and apps that can be used to support assessment and feedback:

Classroom
Forms

Back to assessment page

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July 13, 2022

Teaching with Google Workspace

Google Workspace tools and apps that can be used to create learning resources and deliver these to learners:

Slides
Classroom
Drive
Jamboard
Forms

Back to teaching page

This playlist contains short guides on how to use Workspace tools to create learnign resources and activities and share them with learners, including:

Slides
Assignments on Classroom
Drive

This playlist contains short guides on how to use Workspace tools to deliver learning activities to learners, including:

Jamboard
Forms
Sites

July 13, 2022

Assessment and Feedback with O365

Microsoft O365 has a range of tools and apps that can be used to support assessment and feedback:

Forms
OneNote
Teams

Back to assessment page

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July 13, 2022

Teaching with O365

Microsoft O365 has a range of tools and apps that can be used to support teaching:

PowerPoint
Stream
Forms
Whiteboard
OneNote

Back to teaching page

This YouTube video includes an embedded playlist – use the playlist icon in the top-right of the video to view the full collection of videos.

This playlist contains short guides on how to use O365 tools to create resources and how to share them with learners, including:

PowerPoint
Stream
Assignments in Teams

This playlist contains short guides on how to use O365 tools to deliver learning activities to learners, including:

Whiteboard
OneNote
Forms

This playlist contains short guides on how to use O365 accessibility tools to support learners access learning in different formats, such as text to voice and voice to text.