Check out this really handy accessibility guide for use with learners. Please post in the comments how you have used it!
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Primary Progression Pathway
Professional Learning 25/26
Click here for all the DigiLearnRen Professional Learning opportunities – but hurry because some great opportunities are approaching their closing date. Don’t let these fabulous sessions pass you by!
Renfrewshire CPD
Welcome Back!
Welcome back! I hope you had a great summer break!
Just a reminder that the annual glow password reset took place for pupils on Tuesday 12 August and for staff will be on Tuesday 26th August.
Happy Holidays!
We hope you all have a wonderful, restful, well-deserved summer break! If you are looking for inspiration over the summer, check out all the DigiLearnRen posts you might have missed 🙂
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/digilearnren/category/news-updates/
Standards and Quality Report 24/25
Before you sign off for the summer, I wanted to share our Standards and Quality report for this session along with our next steps for 25/26. Some light reading, viewing and listening in time for the summer holidays!
https://sites.google.com/re.glow.scot/digilearnren/home/digital-strategy/sq-2425
Refreshed Digital Strategy for Education
Survey Feedback
This is the feedback from the Digital Strategy survey that we issued in Term 3. The responses use a range of media to help you access all the results. This has been used to inform our next steps moving forward.
Digital Visits 24/25
Following on from “Planning your school’s digital strategy” professional learning sessions and a survey about sharing practice, we visited 8 schools this year. The purpose was to discuss the next steps in planning their digital strategy and/or a change they had made to their digital practice which had impacted positively on learners.
In some, we had a discussion and provided them further documentation that would support them. In others, we discussed the impact and produced a report. Below I have attached some useful documents along with the reports. You can read these reports for yourself and hopefully it will help you to be inspired.
Report Visits
Fordbank Sharing Practice Visit 240924Glencoats Sharing Practice Visit 071124Todholm Sharing Practice Visit 110924
Useful Documents
Glow Google Gemini Guide @GlowScot
Have you seen this handy guide to Google Gemini from the Glow Connect team? A great visual to help you get started. Check it out here: Google-Gemini-in-Glow-Quick-Start-Guide-2
Free AI Teaching Resources for Primary Schools in Scotland
Please see information from the Scottish AI Alliance (SAIA):
‘Free AI Teaching Resources for Primary Schools in Scotland
| Children’s Parliament, Scottish AI Alliance, and The Alan Turing Institute are delighted to announce the launch of a comprehensive teaching pack to support teachers to educate primary school pupils (P5-7) about Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This teaching pack includes 6 lesson plans with clear learning objectives for children in P5 to P7 including:
These resources can be used in a single lesson or across a whole term. No AI knowledge? No problem! Each pack includes step-by-step guidance to help you explore AI concepts with your pupils in fun and accessible ways. Let’s give our pupils the tools to understand and shape the future of AI here: Children’s Rights & AI: Teaching Pack — Scottish AI Alliance’ Two lovely videos made by the Children’s Parliament here: What is AI? – AI explained for and by children! (part 1) – YouTube How Does AI use Data? – AI explained for and by children! (part 2) – YouTube |
