step Digital Sacks

Digital Sacks are part of an exciting new Digital Transitions programme for young people from Gypsy/Traveller and Roma families. Digital Sacks contain amazing technology to help you study while travelling, build new digital skills, and make flexible learning a lot easier! Get in touch with STEP, your school or local education contact to get involved.

Practitioners visit the Digital Transitions Programme pages for more details.

What is a Digital Sack?

The Digital Sack is an amazing kit to help you get started with using digital technology for learning. You get a backpack with a tablet device, digital accessories like a keyboard, stylus pen and earbuds. Visit the virtual toolkit below for help setting up your new devices. You’ll also find online resources to help with your digital learning. Your teacher will help you use the Sacks to support your pathway through education.

If you want to know more but don’t know who to contact, use our map to find you local education contact. Or get in touch with STEP directly on step@ed.ac.uk or 013165164444.

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How will the Digital Sack help me?

The STEP Digital Sack can help you in lots of different ways. It can help you with school work, study for qualifications, explore career pathways or learn new skills such as:

Organise and plan your learning

Develop your writing skills

Build study skills like note-taking

Find information to help with learning or career planning

Creative digital skills like making presentations or media

Using different apps and online learning platforms 

Digital sack virtual toolkit

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