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We have had a busy first trimester at the Centre for Teaching Excellence as the Digital Education and AI Hub, working with our cohort of Teacher Associates to inform research questions around AI and learning and delivering professional learning workshops for teachers in Scotland.

We’re delighted to announce that we have joined the Scottish Government-funded Centre for Teaching Excellence as the newly established Digital Education and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Advancing Pedagogy Research Hub.

We're delighted to announce the release of our brand new Robot Cards for primary learners!

Chris is a deputy head teacher at a primary school in East Lothian. He attended the Data Literacy professional learning course and has both directly adapted material and approaches from the course. He has also shared with other colleagues who in turn use and modify them, leading to ‘ripple effects’ of adaptation and evolution within the school.  

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

Earlier in the year we asked for your help voting for the “Strength in Borders: Sourcing Global Data Science Innovation” session to be included in the SXSW EDU 2024 programme of events.

We're delighted to see the article 'Building Data Literacy' by Dr Serdar Abaci  (Lecturer in Data and Digital Literacies) included in Issue 97 of the GTCS digital publication 'Teaching Scotland'.

The Inspiring Learning Festival has been running in the Kelso this week, with 2500 learners travelling from every Primary and Secondary school to try out exciting STEM and creative digital activities, including a couple of data science activities run by the Data Education in Schools Team.

‘A really smart guy plugged himself into Alexa and now she’s smart too’ - children’s understanding of smart speakers.  By Valentina Andries and Judy Robertson.