Digital Technology
What is it?
“We make highly effective use of digital technologies to enrich children’s learning and teaching. We have a well-considered approach to our use of digital technologies and take into account children’s developmental stages. Children learn about and use a wide variety of digital technologies in a safe and creative way to support and extend their learning.”
(A Quality Improvement Framework for Early Learning and Childcare Sectors, Sept 2025, p40).
Key messages:
Ways we can do this:
DIGITAL BOOK (PDF) Open this link in your internet browser on your iPad, click the ‘sharrow/Share’ button, scroll across apps to find Books & tap on it. This will be stored on your iBooks app for easy access on your iPad. Use with guided access to allow children to free access to the book themselves.
- Receive a copy of this book in the post
- The Bongles and the crafty crows teaching pack – The Teaching Pack accompanies and expands upon the learning the children will have begun through reading The Bongles and the Crafty Crows through activities, worksheets, and discussion prompts. Please note that some resources are in the process of being updated.
- Cyber Resilience & Internet Safety (CRIS)
See Education Scotland’s Digilearn blog for their section on CRIS (Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety)
Watch and then discuss online safety videos and activities, such as those found at: Think you Know, BBC Own It, Safer Internet Day.
Story books that explore online safety, such as Chicken Clicking, DigiDuck’s Big Decision, The Internet is Like a Puddle. These books give learners an opportunity to explore and learn about internet safety through stories with the class or on their own.
Passwords – Discuss who should know a password and how to keep them safe. Play memory games, or make up a song, to help develop strategies for remembering a password they use. Such strategies might include a memorable colour and number like “red1”
