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This year, our Highlands and Islands Learning Conference will be a series of webinars between 3rd - 7th June with @alzscot @DigiSkillsEd@SamaritansScot
For more info and to register: shorturl.at/ovwxM
Scottish Union Learning are hosting our annual Fringe Meeting at this year’s STUC Congress in Dundee. The theme of this year’s Fringe is Developing ULR Infrastructure.
Details of the fringe are below:
Reminder that our free, Cyber Security training is tonight, in the Pentland Hotel in #Thurso from 1830 - 2100. The course is being delivered by @DigiSkillsEd and will focus on the best ways to improve your relationship with your phone. No prior knowledge necessary!
📢 Calling all workers who live/work in #Highlands
Free training on cyber security and digital wellbeing is being delivered later this month:
Date 1: March 25th, 1830 - 2100, Pentland Hotel, Thurso
Date 2: March 27th, 1030 - 1300, Merkinch Community Centre, Inverness
Participants are now feeding back from their smaller breakout sessions on their experiences of maths anxiety - another moving and emotive session covering the differences in emotions we all have around mathematics and numeracy.
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After a quick break for lunch, we are back for a workshop with Stephen McGuire, lead tutor with @WEAadulted. Stephen will be taking us through a presentation on Maths Anxiety
#numeracyskills#everydayskills#SULES24
Dr. Catherine Deveney from @NUJScotland discusses an NUJ/cross trade union publication, Patchwork Poetry and Prose, which features contributions from a range of trade unionists. All proceeds from the sale of the book will go to Samaritans.
#writingforwellbeing#SULES24
We're back for a workshop by Johanna and Kirsty from @ScotCCAN on climate change, and the ways in which we can engage in a dialogue on climate change with each other
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Craig and Daniel of @DigiSkillsEd wrap up their session on AI and Cyber Crime by reiterating the need to be healthily sceptical of online communications.
@DigiSkillsEd are taking attendees of #EverydaySkills Event through the patterns that #ArtificialIntelligence uses to produce material based on the prompts provided by #AI users. Daniel and Craig reiterate David's point about replicability of emotional intelligence
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Digital Skills Education will now cover the latest security threat: #ArtificialIntelligence. New #AI tools can create hyper realistic looking threats! #SULES24
@DigiSkillsEd discuss the importance of double checking who you are messaging online, as scammers cleverly can hack accounts which are already verified, and use the verification to convey a sense of authority over their scam victims
#cybersecurity#SULES24#DigitalUnions
Delegates undertaking the @DigiSkillsEd workshop are learning that a lot of internet scams come via a social media messaging feature. They are also learning about the three things scammers use to try and scam online users: Authority, Urgency, and Emotion
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