InfoWise Schools

The right to quality-assured and accurate information is a fundamental digital literacy right of young people. With the emerging and evolving artificial intelligence technology, it is more important that ever that young people are supported in developing key information literacy skills.

By signing up to InfoWise schools, we will support you in ensuring that young people have the skills to challenge misinformation, access reliable, accurate and understandable information and understand their key digital rights.

The delivery of the programme will be discussed with individual schools to ensure that the way that it is implemented suits that school’s requirements.

If you are interested to find out more about how you can be involved, click on the button below to contact us.

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Links to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

The UNCRC is embedded within our services, supporting young people to understand and exercise their rights. The way in which quality information is delivered to young people links directly with their rights. The work within the InfoWise Schools Programme aligns with many aspects of the UNCRC, particularly Article 17.

Article 17: Every child has the right to reliable information from a variety of sources, and governments should encourage the media to provide information that children can understand. Governments must help protect children from materials that could harm them - United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)

If you would like to find out more specifically about our work around the UNCRC and how this links to our work with schools, please contact us.

Find out more about how our work aligns with the UNCRC.

The Programme

The programme will support your school community to develop a knowledge of information literacy skills and how we use them. It will also have a focus of ensuring that your school community has a good knowledge of Young Scot and the entitlements available to young people.

What is involved:

1 to 1 Support

You will receive support to promote information literacy and Young Scot entitlements within your place of work. This will include:

A member of staff to support you in your information literacy journey

Online meetings to plan, evaluate work and discuss next steps
Ongoing email support

Practitioner CPD

We will work closely with practitioners throughout this programme to ensure that they are receiving appropriate guidance and support. Practitioners supporting the programme must either:

Attend one of our termly Young Scot and Information Literacy live online CPD sessions. Details of these will be sent each term.
Complete pre-recorded online content. This will cover the same as the online live sessions but can be completed within your own time.

Workshops and Delivery

We will work with you to support the delivery of workshops. Those taking part must commit to:

Delivery of an online or in-person workshop for S1 aged young people focusing on Young Scot and information literacy. During your first year of involvement this will be delivered by a Young Scot member. For subsequent years of involvement this must be delivered by the school or group taking part.
Delivering a workshop or assembly to S2-S6 aged young people on information literacy. You can use our pre-planned session or create your own.
Delivery of Young Scot information to all young people. This can be done using our powerpoint presentation or playing our Young Scot video (coming soon!)