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Digital Xtra is a registered charity whose goal is for every young person in Scotland to have access to innovative, meaningful, and creative extracurricular computing and AI activities regardless of their gender, background, or where they live.
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Digital Ethics Badges
This gold-level Digital Ethics Badge, created with support from Digital Xtra’s Ethics in Tech programme, enables users to identify and embed ethical principles while creating digital products, tools, and services as well as the role of a digital ethicist. Users then act as a digital ethics consultants for atech start-up helping identify and mitigate potential ethical risks.
Maddie is Online: Ethics of Online Safety and Security
Maddie is Online is a series of educational resources that mirrors the online experiences of pre-teen children and empowers them with information and skills to help deal with challenges in their digital lives. The fourth series of Maddie is Online specifically focusses on Ethics of Online Safety and Security.
Tech We Trust
Tech We Trust is an interactive lesson demonstrating how personal data is used in algorithms and how programmers can (often accidentally) include their own bias. The activity challenges young people aged 10+ to create a fair and unbiased algorithm to determine who received a free ticket to a local attraction.
LEGO Education SPIKE Prime
Participants will each adopt roles within their team (i.e. Team Leader, Builder, Developer) mirroring how teams work in ‘real life’ while using LEGO Education’s SPIKE Prime kit to assemble and code a robotic arm. Each team will then test their build through various dexterity challenges.
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Participants will work in teams or individually to create their own ‘Rock, Paper, Scissor’ game before competing to determine who is the ultimate ‘RPS Master’. They will learn about block coding (Scratch) and see how software and hardware can work together. They will also learn about variables and discuss how to improve the game’s UX (user experience) .
Marty the Robot
Participants are introduced to Marty’s unplugged and sequencer modes, followed by MartyBlocks Jr (based on Scratch Jr), before moving onto MartyBlocks (based on Scratch). Then teams will use their collective imaginations to plan a workout or dance routine including as much noise, movement, and personality as possible!
Sphero indi
Participants will be introduced to programming using a Sphero indi which is coded by driving over different coloured mats. Each colour mat represents a different result just like coding. Working in teams, participants will help their indi navigate through a series of challenges by breaking them down into a series of smaller tasks.
