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Digital tools can make lessons more interactive for students by making them more accessible and easily differentiated. Activities can be easily differentiated and tailored to particular groups and abilities. Lessons can become more collaborative and can challenge students to use problem solving skills along with communication skills. By teachers improving their own uses of digital technology, they can encourage and model these digital skills for their students while also making their lessons more efficient, engaging and collaborative. It is important that a school chooses their own focus of their SSE, so that they can focus on where the majority of their students level would be with digital skills, as this may differ widely across schools. Resources differ hugely across schools, and therefore the skills and experiences of students will be very different, depending on the resources that the school has access to. Professional development is also essential for teachers in order for them to be able to keep their own skills up to date. The Digital Strategy can guide a school in assessing the aspects that they will work towards in the future and highlight areas that would be beneficial for professional development and instruction. It is important that schools work collaboratively, with a whole school plan in place to ensure that by the end of their schooling, students will have been able to develop the relevant digital skills.