Category: Events

This spring Judy Robertson, Jasmeen Kanwal and Kate Farrell held three AI literacy information sessions for parents and families for Education Scotland's Parentzone, with 158 people attending across the series.

On the 12 June 2026, we had the pleasure to host a symposium of senior school leaders and education leaders in Scotland at the Informatics Forum, The University of Edinburgh. Over 70 delegates joined us from all across the country, some travelling from as far as the Highland Council, to share experiences and concerns on the use of AI in schools, and collaboratively build consensus on the way forward for Scottish education.

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.

On the 31st March 2026, we had the pleasure of hosting a group of young people at the Edinburgh Futures Institute for a performance reflecting critically and creatively on the ethics around the use of AI in schools. Our programme lead Judy Robertson chaired the event.

Last week, our colleagues from the IoT in Schools  and Data Education in Schools teams delivered online sessions of Santa's Secret Sensor to primary 4 - 7 classes from the southeast of Scotland.

We partnered with Scotland’s Development Education Centre (Scotdec) to hold an online interactive session to help teachers explore issues around refugees and migration, empowering learners with data literacy skills.

We were happy to participate for the second year in a row in the Edinburgh Futures Institute Doors Open Day, which took place on the 27th September 2025.

On Friday 19th September 2025, we held an event in collaboration with Children’s Parliament  and the Scottish AI Alliance.

On the 2nd September 2025, our team members Kate Farrell and Jasmeen Kanwal were speakers at the Royal Statistical Society International Conference in Edinburgh, a well-attended event for professionals, researchers, students and all interested in learning about the impactful application of statistics and data science.