The Data Education in Schools team are thrilled to have won the ‘Education Initiative of the Year’ Award at the British Data Awards last night. Jo Spiller (Programme Director) and Jasmeen Kanwal (Project Officer) attended the awards ceremony in the Great Hall of the Grand Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden, London.

From Mull to Monifeith, Marrister to Monreith and Moffat - Micro:bits are on the move!

The Data Education in Schools team are thrilled to have jointly won the 2024 Information Literacy Award, announced as part of the LILAC conference held in Leeds on the 25th March.

The Data Education in Schools team have reached the final of the 2024 British Data Awards. The team have been nominated in the 'Education Initiative of the Year' category. Finalists for this award include Admiral Insurance UK, Alliance for Data Science Professionals, Applied Data Science Partners, Corndel, Eden Smith, Education Authority, JLL, Lloyds Banking Group, and Synap.

On Monday 19th February, the Data Education in Schools team were delighted to be invited to run a full morning in-service programme on Data literacy for primary school teachers in West Lothian. Fifty-two fantastic and engaged teachers from five local primary schools spent the morning on a range of interactive, data-themed activities aimed at giving teachers ideas and strategies for introducing and integrating data skills into the Primary curriculum.

The University of Edinburgh has received Arts and Humanities Research Council funding for the project ‘Towards Embedding Responsible AI in the School System: Co-Creation with Young People’ as part of their Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme.

We're thrilled to be working with SSERC to deliver a new professional learning course for teachers. 'Saving the world with data: Data literacy across the BGE curriculum' will run across 5 evenings (7-9pm) on Wednesdays from 21st Feb. The course cost is £50 and includes a range of learning materials that you'll receive in advance of the course.

On 12th December the Data Education in Schools team streamed the recording of the first of three Royal Institution Christmas lectures with Professor Mike Wooldridge (University of Oxford). ‘The Truth Behind AI’, focused on the rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) exploring some of the big questions facing AI research and challenging myths about how AI really works.

Professor Judy Robertson was invited to speak to the Scottish Parliament Committee for Education, Children & Young People on the subject of AI and education on 13th December 2023.