Category: Impact

The Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills has published advice and guidance for schools and other education settings on the safe and ethical use of AI in education.

Our Director of Curriculum Development Kate Farrell was invited to speak at  The National Academies workshop "International Practices in K-12 Mathematics Education: The Role of Computational Thinking, Data Science, and AI", which took place in Washington, DC on the 23-24 February 2026.

Five members of the North Lanarkshire Digital Learning Team have attended the Data Education Professional Learning course over the past two years. The Digital Learning Team work across over 155 primary, secondary and special schools in the region, supporting 3,700 teachers to integrate effective digital literacies and pedagogies into their teaching.  

In the context of the Micro:bits on the Move programme, helping Informatics students at the University of Edinburgh deliver Micro:bit workshops for learners across across Scotland, we partnered with the Digital Learning team in East Lothian to further support teachers to use the hardware in the classroom.

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

The Heriot Watt outreach team have been using resources from the Data Education in Schools programme as part of their STEM Ambassadors programme for undergraduates with really positive results. 

Data Education in Schools offers a Data Literacy course to teachers with the immediate effect of providing new understanding, approaches and resources to those individual teacher participants. This resulted in additional impacts, as the course was able to inspire teachers to make changes within their schools – with the Data Education in School’s support in doing so. 

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.  

We are delighted to be launching TRAILS – Teaching Responsible AI Literacy in Schools, our dedicated website to showcase our work bringing AI literacy into the Scottish schools.