{"id":196,"date":"2026-09-17T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/?p=196"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:58:02","slug":"digital-skills-for-primary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/17\/digital-skills-for-primary-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital skills for primary schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Digital skills<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Digital skills is a strand in the Technologies and Innovation curricular area of In Curriculum for Excellence and are required to use digital technology to access services and information and to actively participate in society. This includes but is not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>setting up, using and securing digital technology<\/li>\n<li>being creative<\/li>\n<li>accessing reliable information and essential services<\/li>\n<li>entertainment and enjoyment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559731&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335562764&quot;:2,&quot;335562765&quot;:1,&quot;335562766&quot;:4,&quot;335562767&quot;:0,&quot;335562768&quot;:4,&quot;335562769&quot;:0}\">Below\u00a0 are links to activities, ideas and resources for each of the foundational digital skills:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Setting up and using devices and the web<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/04\/using-devices-first-level\/\">First Level<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/08\/using-devices-and-the-web-second-level\/\">Second Level<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Communicating and transacting<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/04\/communicating-first-level\/\">First Level<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/08\/communicating-and-transacting-second-level\/\">Second Level<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Creating and editing media<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/08\/creating-and-editing-media-first-level\/\">First Level<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/08\/creating-and-editing-media-second-level\/\">Second Level<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Finding and checking information and media<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/04\/finding-and-checking-information-and-media-first-level\/\">First Level<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/08\/finding-and-checking-information-and-media-second-level\/\">Second 1Level<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cyber security and privacy<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/04\/cyber-security-and-privacy-first-level\/\">First Level<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/08\/cyber-security-and-privacy-second-level\/\">Second Level<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital skills Digital skills is a strand in the Technologies and Innovation curricular area of In Curriculum for Excellence and are required to use digital technology to access services and information and to actively participate in society. This includes but is not limited to: setting up, using and securing digital technology being creative accessing reliable information and essential services entertainment and enjoyment &nbsp; Below\u00a0 are links to activities, ideas and<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/17\/digital-skills-for-primary-schools\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}