Category: General
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Digital Conference 2025
Behind the scenes, this years’ Edinburgh Learns Digital Conference was a little different for us all. Not only did we celebrate the vast and dynamic digital teaching and learning that goes on in our Edinburgh schools, network with over 130 Digital Learning Coordinators, and hear from experts far and wide… but we were also able…
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Zoomania: Maths Week Scotland Live Lesson
We kicked off the 2025-26 run of Live Lessons with our first ever collaboration with Edinburgh Zoo as part of Maths Week Scotland! This year’s theme was Wild Maths, and everyone who joined us this time used problem solving skills to build an app on Keynote, building in images from the zoo enclosures and using the…
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Sketchbook Top Tips
It sounds obvious, but have you considered using Sketchbook for your schools’ entries for the 2025 JCDecaux competition? The thought of digital drawing can make a lot of people/artists shudder, but when you think of it as another media choice, and begin to understand the endless opportunities to discover new textures and mark-making, as well…
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Empowered Learning @ Carrick Knowe
In June 2024 we published this video showcasing how Empowered Learning iPads were being used to support learning and teaching throughout the school at Carrick Knowe Primary School. Please contact us if you are an Edinburgh school who would like to showcase your good practice in a similar fashion.
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Minecraft Education Build League Finals Day
The most wonderful day of the year has arrived, no not the first day of the summer holidays… The Minecraft Education Build League Finals Day! Monday 16th of June 2025 saw twenty-eight young people from seven CEC schools descend on the National Museum of Scotland for an in-person Minecraft challenge like no other. The day…
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Why Creating Apps is a Powerful Learning Activity
As teachers, we often ask pupils to produce something that demonstrates what they’ve learned about a topic. These might include posters, mind maps, videos, models, illustrations and podcasts. All of these are valuable activities. But there’s another product you could ask learners to create. One that allows them to demonstrate what they have learned in…
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Patterns in History: From Past to Present
Along with providing CLPL for our teachers in the form of Live Lessons, our team here at Edinburgh Learns Digital like to make connections with local places that our young people can explore for free in their own time. Last week saw the beginnings of a new friendship with the National Museum of Scotland. They…
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Online Skill Course: Enhancing Teaching & Learning with ClickView
ClickView offers a range of features to enhance teaching and learning in our classrooms, whether by supporting learners with engaging, specially curated pre-made video content, hosting our own educational videos, or assessing understanding through interactive quizzes. Through the iPad app or a web browser, ClickView is a secure and ad-free resource that can seamlessly be…
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Microsoft Learning Accelerators – Maths Progress
Microsoft continues to build its suite of Learning Accelerators to support teaching and learning with their new feature Maths Progress. Maths Progress allows teachers to generate a series of maths questions and create their own, making it a valuable tool for colleagues across Edinburgh schools. You can watch our video series exploring the Maths Progress…
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Launching our Digital Learning Units
What are Digital Learning Units? Digital Learning Units are designed so that you have access to teacher produced, ready to use digital resources. These contain teacher instructions, guided videos and structured pupil pages, ready to be copied to your Class Notebooks. These have been designed to be delivered by a teacher to a whole class…
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Online Skill Courses: Microsoft’s Learning Accelerators
Explore the Microsoft Learning Accelerators: Your Guide to Reflect, Reading, Search, and Speaker Progress If you are looking to enhance learning, teaching and assessment and empower learners in identifying their next steps, Microsoft’s Learning Accelerators can undoubtedly support you. This suite of learning accelerators is here to empower teachers and learners alike. Here’s a rundown…
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Create to Learn – Edinburgh Learns Digital Conference 2024
After months of meticulous planning, it is hard to believe that this year’s Edinburgh Learns Digital Conference has already been and gone. Nearly 150 Digital Learning Coordinators (DLCs) from our Primary, Secondary and Special Schools gathered under one roof to explore ways in which we are supporting our learners to creatively solve problems, present their…
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Edinburgh Teachers Celebrated at Digital Event
Teaching staff from across Edinburgh were welcomed to Waverley Court to celebrate achieving their Apple Learning Coach certification. It is great to have 62 staff across the city having achieved this certification. Educators from a range of primary and secondary settings shared their experiences of the programme, exploring the positive difference that this has brought…
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Celebrating Eurovision with Apple’s Numbers: Live Lesson
Calling all Spacemen, Divas and Heroes! Eurovision season is upon us with Swedish city of Malmö hosting after Loreen stormed to victory in Liverpool in 2023. The excitement has travelled as far as Edinburgh with learners in our primary schools getting involved in the musical buzz that the annual song contest brings. Learners in our…
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Spring with Sketchbook: The Winners!
Some might argue that Spring is yet to appear here in Edinburgh (come on now, sun!), but worry not, our ‘Spring with Sketchbook’ Live Lesson has brought the sunshine! You can read more about the lessons here and if you would like to see self-submitted drawings made by our young participants in lesson 1, we…
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Apple Learning Coach
Applications will be open in September for becoming an Apple Learning Coach. This is a really worthwhile programme, and we’d highly recommend all Digital Learning Coordinators take part along with at least one other member of staff from every school. This programme will help support staff to coach and assist colleagues to embed the use…
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Managing your Class using Class Notebook
OneNote Class Notebook is a great tool to use to distribute tasks to learners along with giving feedback anywhere anytime. There are a vast amount of tools you can use in this application to create a variety of mixed media learning content all on the same page for learners to quickly and easily access. We…
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App Design Live Lesson
This week, we had the first of our live lessons – App Design for your Community. We were joined by over 40 classes and 1000 pupils to learn about the process of designing an app. It was great to see the classes engaged and thank you to all teachers for supporting your learners to take…
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