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Literacy across Learning
Developing and reinforcing young people's
literacy skills is the responsibility of all
across the curriculum
Curriculum for Excellence Experiences &
Outcomes
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Digital Technology
- digital applications, services and
resources which are used to find, analyse,
create, communicate, and use information
in a digital context
Scottish Government Digital Learning
Strategy Consultation
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Digital Learning
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Learning which is supported & enhanced by a
range of digital technologies & approaches
Can focus on one or more particular
technologies
May focus on classroom use or anywhereanytime access
May include features and approaches that are
used to develop independent learners
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Digital Literacy
• Encompasses the capabilities required for living,
learning & working in a digital society
• Includes the skills, knowledge, capabilities &
attributes around the use of digital technology which
enable individuals to develop to their full potential in
relation to learning, life & work
• Encompasses the skills to use technology to engage
in learning through managing information,
communicating & collaborating, problem-solving &
being creative, & the appropriate & responsible use
of technology
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Flipped learning
• A pedagogical approach in which the
conventional notion of classroom-based
learning is inverted
• Students are introduced to the learning
material before class
• Classroom time used to deepen understanding
through discussion with peers and problemsolving activities facilitated by teachers
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Curriculum Organisers – Literacy
Responsibility of all
Tools for reading
Tools for writing
Tools for listening and talking
Finding and using information
Understanding, analysing and evaluating
Enjoyment and choice
Creating texts
Organising and using information
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Tools for reading
Secondary Literacy Lesson – Creative Lesson idea:
• To read, watch and discuss ‘Tam O’Shanter’
• To work together in groups to create a storyboard of a section
of the poem
• To perform the poem as a class
Literacy Across Learning:
Expressive Arts: creation of storyboard and performance of poem
http://www.rm.com/blog/2015/september/secondary-literacylesson-creative-lesson-idea
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Tools for writing
West Lothian Early Years & Primary Literacy
https://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/sites/WestLothianCouncil/
wlearlyliteracy/SitePages/Home.aspx
West Lothian Literacy Across Learning
https://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/sites/WestLothianCouncil/
wlliteracy/literacyacrosslearning/SitePages/Community%20Home
.aspx
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Tools for Writing
Highland Literacy Strategy https://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/sites/TheHighlandCoun
cil/cadosteamsite/englishandliteracy/SitePages/Home.aspx
Literacy across Learning
http://bit.ly/2qHnVZA
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Active Literacy
Westquarter Primary School
http://westquarterprimaryschool.primaryblogger.co.uk/learningand-teaching-2/active-literacy/
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Creating texts
West Lothian Literacy – Digital Story telling
https://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/sites/3330621/wl
digitalstorytelling/SitePages/Home.aspx
West Lothian Literacy – Using Mobile
Devices to develop storytelling
https://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/sites/3330621/wl
mobileliteracy/SitePages/Home.aspx
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RM Unify Apps
App Library – Literacy Planet App
https://connect.glowscotland.org.uk/2016/02/08/glow-applibrary-new-literacyplanet
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Yammer – a space for sharing and
communicating
WL Early Years and Primary
Literacy Yammer Space
https://www.yammer.com/glowschools.org.uk/#/threads/inGrou
p?type=in_group&feedId=8015800
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Sway
An interesting example of a school newsletter being
published using #sway
https://sway.com/MfHqbg6A8pFs6oSB
Created by the pupils of Bathgate Academy
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Portobello High School
https://portobelloliteracy.wordpress.com/
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Deepening Learning
through Literacy
Explain/articulate
thinking by
constructing new
texts
Reframe knowledge
& understanding
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Understand
knowledge/
concepts
Analyse &
reconsider
thinking
Evaluate &
draw
conclusions
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What does this look like across curriculum
areas?
• Working collaboratively to discuss and explain thinking, listen to the views of
others and adapt thinking
• Debating views to explore issues in more depth
• Engaging with texts to find information to extend thinking
• Exploring factors which influence and persuade in order to evaluate the
reliability of information
• Making notes to organise thinking, develop ideas and acknowledge sources in
written work
• Developing and using effective vocabulary
• Creating texts to demonstrate learning to others through presentations of
extended writing
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Literature Review on the Impact of Digital
Technology on Learning and Teaching
“indicative evidence that it can support
educational attainment in literacy and help
close the gap in attainment between groups
of learners”
Scottish Government
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