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Scottish Digital Literacy Week

Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025
Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025

Educator webinars

Launch and Update on Digital Literacy Guidance: May 7, 2025 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm

The aim of this webinar is to provide an overview of Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025 and provide updates on the development of digital literacy as part of the Curriculum Improvement Cycle that is being undertaken.

Creating ELC family newsletters with Adobe Express in Glow May 12, 2025 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Emma from the Adobe Express for Education Team in this beginners demo session, as she takes us on a guided tour of creating your own interactive and accessible nursery newsletters.

Educator webinar – Digital Schools Award (Scotland) May 12, 2025 3:45 pm – 4:30 pm

The aim is to provide up-to-date and relevant information on the Digital Schools Award Scotland and the latest developments, including other awards for wellbeing, coding and early learning centres. 

Educator Webinar – Digital Citizenship  May 13, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm

The aim of this session is to set out a data justice approach, in which all young people have a right to information integrity. We are looking to engage teachers in processes of reflection on their own practice, drawing on examples of leading practice across the curriculum from our project so far.

Research Highlights with Dr Kate Cowan and The Froebel Trust May 13, 2025 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

In this 30 minute recording Kate will share insights from research highlight FROEBEL TRUST GUIDANCE FOR PRACTITIONERS ON DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION published in 2020.

Educator Webinar – Scottish Esports May 13, 2025 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

The aim is to provide up-to-date and relevant information on Esports in Scotland. It will cover: the Scottish Esports Education landscape, pathways and organisations they can work with locally for engagement and the new HNC ESports being developed.

Research Highlights with Dr Lorna Arnott  May 14, 2025 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

In this 30 minute session Lorna will talk about her experiences and findings from research around what digital and online play looks like in practice.  Drawing on data from a recently completed ESRC funded project, Lorna will share examples of high quality and creative play experiences with babies and toddlers in family homes.  

Digital Learning Through Play Award in ELC May 15, 2025 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm

This 30-minute information giving session is for ELC practitioners working across a range of ELC settings in Scotland to find out about the exciting Digital Learning Through Play Award in ELC.

In Person Training – Adobe Express for Education – DigiLearn May 14, 2025 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

During this in person event. you will gain hands-on training with Adobe Express and discover responsible generative AI tools that make teaching & learning experiences more engaging.

Adobe will have refreshments, snacks and more for all teachers to enjoy during the session!

Sharing practice

Sharing Practice Session: Digital Profiling in Aberdeenshire ELC Settings & Primary Schools  May 13, 2025 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Join us in this sharing practice session with Julia Rickard, Education Officer, Aberdeenshire and Nikki Kimbell, Educational Consultant at digital profiling platform Just2Easy, to discover how ELC settings and primary schools in Aberdeenshire are using the j2journal – Just2easy.

LIVE lessons

The Big Listening Quiz  May 12, 2025 9:00 am – 16, 2025 6:00 pm

The Big Listening Quiz is an audio quiz, where you will activate both your sense of sight and your sense of hearing. The quiz will have a variety of sounds (audio recordings) to listen to and a choice of pictorial answers. Once you think you have identified the sound, select the answer and move through each sound until you have reached the end.

Using Podcasts for Learning & Teaching with Adobe Express  May 13, 2025 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Learners will explore the basics of podcasts and will develop an episode on a topic. If learners could have a topic in mind that would hugely beneficial.

Using Podcasts for Teaching & Learning with Adobe  May 13, 2025 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Learners will explore the basics of podcasts and will develop an episode on a topic. If learners could have a topic in mind that would hugely beneficial.

Tech for Everything Assembly 1 with Tech She Can  May 14, 2025 10:00 am – 10:25 am

Tech for Everything Assembly 1 is the first assembly in a brand-new series for P7 and S1 students. This first assembly in the series focuses on the subjects of English, Languages, Music, Art and Drama.

Technology for Everything Assembly 1 with Tech She Can  May 13, 2025 2:00 pm – 2:25 pm

Tech for Everything Assembly 1 is the first assembly in a brand-new series for P7 and S1 students. This first assembly in the series focuses on the subjects of English, Languages, Music, Art and Drama.

CALL Scotland Early/First Level Accessible Read Along ’10 Dogs’.  May 15, 2025 10:00 am – 10:30 am

Join this 30 min accessible Live Read Along with Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Joanna Courtney from CALL Scotland who will take us through an accessible format of ’10 Dogs’ by by Louise Fitzgerald (Author) and Kate Hindley (Illustrator), from the BookBug P1 Family Bag.

Live Lesson – Playing and Making Games  May 16, 2025 9:30 am – 10:30 am

Callum Croughan from North Lanarkshire will deliver this live lesson on making games with MakeCode Arcade.

Live Lesson – Search for AI: Close reading not required?  May 16, 2025 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

The aim of the session is to foster critical information literacy, offering several examples of how search engines might not give you the most relevant information, with some suggested strategies for navigating digital spaces overloaded with information.

Scottish AI in Schools Week 2025

Check out this link for all the details of what is happening in Scottish AI in Schools Week 2025. We will be sharing some suggested ideas as well so watch this space!

If you haven’t seen the paper produced by Learning Beyond Boundaries in partnership with Staff College and ADES, on Perspectives on Artificial
Intelligence (AI) in Education: Insights from Young People and Teachers in Scotland, you can read it here:

AI Art and Image Generators #SDLW24

Two more useful tools for you to encourage your learners’ digital literacy skills – Craiyon and Ideogram.
Craiyon allows you to create AI art in a range of styles that could be used to illustrate a piece of writing, for character descriptions and much more.
Ideogram is a free-to-use AI tool that generates realistic images, posters, logos and more which could be used as part of presentations.

Remember to always consider the points raised in the challenges and risk section of the West Partnership Scoping Review (see below).

West Partnership AI Resources

Curipod #SDLW24

Curipod is useful for designing lessons, Curipod combines polls, drawings, and word clouds to create interactive and engaging slides quickly. It also allows teachers to collaborate, and can send polls for pupils to complete that display the results to the class. on the board. Check it out at: https://curipod.com/

 

Don’t forget to consider the points raised in the challenges and risk section of the West Partnership Scoping Review (see below).

West Partnership AI Resources

Quizalize #quizalize #SDLW24

 

Quizalize is an online platform for designing formative assessments that use gamification, meaning they are engaging for pupils, and allow teachers to collect real-time data on their progress. Tests can be created using ChatGPT, or alternatively they can be selected from a bank of tests readily available on a wide range of subject areas.

Why not give this a go during Scottish Digital Literacy Week 13 – 18 May?

As with all these AI tools, please consider the points raised in the challenges and risk section of the West Partnership Scoping Review (see below)

West Partnership AI Resources