{"id":137,"date":"2014-06-25T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2014\/06\/25\/digital-passport-information-event\/"},"modified":"2014-06-25T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T10:10:00","slug":"digital-passport-information-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/digital-passport-information-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Passport information event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We held an information event&nbsp;yesterday&nbsp;for the new Digital Passport qualification. The event was held in Stirling. Nineteen centres attended.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mMiqyhBHgP0\/U6qepdjyVxI\/AAAAAAAAdEE\/t6ewqeA8Ico\/s1600\/DSC_0036.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mMiqyhBHgP0\/U6qepdjyVxI\/AAAAAAAAdEE\/t6ewqeA8Ico\/s1600\/DSC_0036.JPG\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken a long time to get to this stage so it was a pleasure to move on from qualification development to explaining what&#8217;s in the qualification. My presentation covered the contents of the new award in some detail.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Passport is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_literacy\">digital literacy<\/a> award and, we think, its contents are pretty innovative, covering such diverse topics as big data, e-safety, social presence, network neutrality and critical thinking. It has a particular focus on &#8220;digital citizenship&#8221; and the role of digital technology in modern societies. Many of the audience were from schools and I pointed out the &#8220;good fit&#8221; between Digital Passport and the <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/06\/education-working-for-all.html\">recent report on vocational education in schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are piloting Digital Passport next year so that we can trial support materials, and give centres an opportunity to deliver some of the challenging material inside the qualification. <b>Please <a href=\"mailto:hilary.weir@sqa.org.uk\">contact Hilary<\/a> if you want to know more about the pilot or get involved.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Digital Passport will be officially launched (to all centres) in Spring 2015 and available for delivery (by all centres) from August 2015. In the meantime, you can download the FAQ <a href=\"http:\/\/1drv.ms\/MU2OfL\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We held an information event&nbsp;yesterday&nbsp;for the new Digital Passport qualification. The event was held in Stirling. Nineteen centres attended. It&#8217;s taken a long time to get to this stage so it was a pleasure to move on from qualification development to explaining what&#8217;s in the qualification. My presentation covered the contents of the new award in some detail. Digital Passport is a digital literacy award and, we think, its contents are pretty innovative, covering such diverse topics as big data,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}