On the 19th February, our Programme Director Judy Robertson and Jen Ross, Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Research in Digital Education, were invited to speak at the Goodison Group Scotland’s Futures Forum at the Scottish Parliament.

We have been happy to work with partners at Digital Skills Education to bring the free, interactive Unbelievably Creative AI Show to the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Digital Skills Education are running a free interactive show about AI in February 2025 at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

On the 12th December 2024, we held  the event "Creativity and Emerging Tech" at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, which focused on the creative side of technology and how digital techniques, skills and literacies, such as AI, can inform creative projects and ideas.

We are excited to announce the release of a video playlist on Exploring the AI Jungle, the exciting project that our programme lead Judy Robertson carried out with Laura Meagher and Elspeth Maxwell earlier this year. By using the jungle metaphor, the Exploring the AI Jungle picturebook and teachers' guide explain ways how a type of Artificial Intelligence called Generative AI could be used in schools. You can read more and download the Exploring the AI Jungle materials here.

In June 2024, as part of the project Towards embedding responsible AI in the school system: co-creation with young people in the BRAID programme and in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research in Digital Education, we organised workshops on the topic of the future of responsible AI in education.

The Data Education in Schools team are thrilled to announce the AI in Secondary Schools project.

Kate Farrell (Director of Curriculum Development and Professional Learning) and Tommy Lawson (Schools Technology Advisor) attended the NC Data Science Education Summit (24-25 October 2024) as invited speakers, nominated by Data Science 4 Everyone (DS4E), a coalition created by the University of Chicago Center for RISC. The Summit unites practitioners from higher education, K-12, industry, and nonprofits to shape data-driven education in North Carolina. 

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a shiny new data-themed Escape Room: Undercover Mission in Norway!