Digital Skills Education

Google Lens is a set of vision-based computing capabilities that can understand what you’re looking at and use that information to copy or translate text, identify plants and animals, explore locales or menus, discover products, find visually similar images and take other useful actions.

• Google Lens

Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.

• https://hemingwayapp.com/

Support reading and writing by using Immersive Reader to customise how word documents appear while you read and edit. Immersive Reader provides options for a comfortable and easy to process experience by allowing you to listen to the text read aloud or adjust how text appears by modifying spacing, colour and more. This is a feature that is built into Microsoft Word.

• Immersive Reader

Speak is a built-in feature of Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote. You can use Speak to have text read aloud in the language of your version of Office.

Orato is another free text reader which can be installed on to your computer or run from a USB pen drive for portable use.

The C-Pen Reader is a portable, pocket-sized device that reads text out aloud.

• C-Pen

Clicker is a writing solution for the primary classroom.

• Clicker

Read&Write is a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work.

• Read&Write

An accessible and engaging platform of curriculum-aligned online literacy resources and multilingual texts, for children aged 3-14.

• Giglets

• Lexia

Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design and modelling, it’s CAD (Computer Aided Design) package.

• Tinkercad

The Measure app uses augmented reality (AR) technology to turn your device into a tape measure. You can gauge the size of objects, automatically detect the dimensions of rectangular objects, and save a photo of the measurement.

• iOS Measure
• Open the Measure app, then follow any onscreen instructions that ask you to move your device around. This gives your device a frame of reference for the object you’re measuring and the surface it’s on. Keep moving your device until a circle with a dot in the centre appears.
• Move your device so that the dot is over the starting point of your measurement, then tap the Add button.
• Move your device slowly until the dot is over the ending point of your measurement, then tap the Add button.

Explore maths with a beautiful, free online graphing calculator.

• Desmos

GeogGebra is another graphing calculator.

• GeoGebra

Build maths fluency through games-based practice.

• Sumdog

Polymath is a collaborative maths game with personalised questions for each student.

• Polymath

• Mathigon

Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more.

• Khan Academy

Hundreds of free manipulatives, models, tools, and activities to aid the teaching of mathematics.

• Maths Bot

Daily 10 is a primary maths resource for primary teachers which covers addition, subtraction, ordering, partitioning, digit values (place value), rounding, multiplication, division, doubles, halves and fractions. It has been designed primarily for use on an interactive whiteboard. The aim is to help teachers deliver 10 maths questions many which can be used for mental maths practise.

Sets of questions can be timed or untimed and the activities are ideal for starter and plenary sessions.

• Daily 10

Hit the Button is an interactive maths game with quick fire questions on number bonds, times tables, doubling and halving, multiples, division facts and square numbers. The games, which are against the clock, challenge and develop mental maths skills. An untimed, practise mode is available in our Hit the Button app along with lots more extra features.

The activities can be matched to appropriate mathematical ability. Regular use of Hit the Button can help students to sharpen their recall of vital number facts in a fun way and learning multiplication tables need not be boring.

• Hit the Button

These activities provide interactive animated graphics to explain various concepts.

• Vinos Visual Numbers

ChatGPT is a generative AI system that specialises in generating text. It is trained on a wide range of text from the internet.  It can make mistakes, so it’s worth checking the information.

• ChatGPT

You give ChatGPT a prompt and it generates new text based on that prompt.

Prompt to try

Create a quiz based on your own lesson

“Here is a transcript of my lesson. I want you to create 5 multiple choice quiz based questions I could ask the class to help test their learning of the subject. Make this quiz suitable for beginners, for a class of 12 year olds. [Add transcript of lesson].”

Getting ideas and inspiration for lesson plans

“I’m running a lesson fro 10 year olds about Newton’s Third Law. Can you suggest experiments that take no more than 15 minutes each that demonstrate the physics involved. For each experiment please detail any materials required, and clear step-by-step instructions that I can follow as a teacher.”

Creating very specific examples or sample data

“Give me 5 examples of sentences that use a verb incorrectly.”

“I am preparing a maths lesson for 9 year olds. I want to test their numeracy skills. Create a menu for a café with prices in £s. Then give me 6 questions that let them practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The questions must be in the form of a story.”

Helping learning prepare for a task, and reflect on their learning

“Provide simple criteria for evaluating show-and-tell presentation about Recycling for class of 12 year olds. Write this criteria in a format suitable for 12 year olds. Indicate how many points each category is worth.”

“Write three reflective questions for pupils to consider after their recent trip to Stirling Castle. In class they’ve been studying the challenges historic properties and monuments face today and what organisation might to do protect them.”

Giving whole class feedback

“I want you to write some class feedback from my Drama class. They have been rehearsing a scene from The Crucible. Here are their notes and names, write short feedback that gives general feedback that everyone as a class can improve on. [Insert data]”.

• Mentimeter

Screencastify is the leading screen recorder for Chrome.

• Screencastify

An online whiteboard that helps keep your classroom on task.

• Classroom Screen

Make beautiful boards to collect, organize, and present anything.

• Padlet

• Plickers

Teacher picks a question set and a unique game mode, players will answer questions to help them win.

• Blooket

Quizlet makes AI-powered learning tools that let you study anything.

• Quizlet

Microsoft Reflect helps you create impactful check-ins to gain insights into your learners’ well-being and build a happier and healthier learning community, all through one easy-to-use app.

Reflect in Teams is pre-installed and available for free in every class and staff team, offering a simple way to conduct check-ins with your students and colleagues.

• Get started with Reflect

Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.

• Chrome Music Lab
• Try out the shared piano, rhythm and kandinsky.

Create your own Machine Learning powered opera song.

Opera singers use their voices as expressive and beautiful musical instruments. This experiment pays tribute to those voices, as musical instruments anyone can learn how to play. Play four opera voices in real time. No singing skills required!

• Blob opera

This AI tool produces cool tunes based on users’ text prompts.

• Riffusion

Suitable for younger learners to let them hear and play with different instrumental sounds.

• Bongo cat

Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project.

• Unsplash

Scribble Diffusion is a powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool that turns sketches into refined image

Book Creator is a digital tool that allows students to create and read multimodal digital books. Book Creator is ideal for making all kinds of books, including children’s picture books, comic books, photo books, journals, textbooks and more.

• Book Creator

Image Creator from Designer helps you generate images based on your words with AI.

• Microsoft Co-Pilot