Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow has become the first secondary school in the UK to earn the Digital Schools Award.
The award, open to schools in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland, promotes excellence in digital learning and teaching across the curriculum and aims to equip pupils with digital skills for the modern workplace.
Work by the school includes collaboration with US-based “innovation school” NuVu to run design and technology camps where pupils worked with experts from MIT and Harvard. Kelvinside also has a Thinking Space inspired by Silicon Valley and designed to foster creativity and collaboration. It hosts computers and iPad stations, which pupils can use to work and access resources. Meanwhile, teachers use their iPads and school VLE to create websites, set and mark homework online, and collaborate with students.
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