Education Scotland – Digital Literacy Week ELC Updates

As part of Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025 , the following online opportunities are available for all ELC and early level settings this week:

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.  

 

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.

 

All sessions apart from the read along will be recorded.

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