16.12.24

Unbelievably Talented: AI Show for Schools Coming Soon in February

Digital Skills Education are running a free interactive show about AI in February 2025 at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. S1 and S2 students are invited to be judges at a talent show contest where they will be asked to distinguish between human and AI-created art. They will be answering questions…
16.12.24

Creativity and Emerging Tech

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. Around 20 S3 learners from George Watson’s College and…
03.12.24

Exploring the AI Jungle: Video Playlist Out Now

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…
26.11.24

Project announcement: AI in Secondary Schools

The Data Education in Schools team are thrilled to announce the AI in Secondary Schools project. As part of the RAi UK Skills Programme, and in partnership with Education Scotland, Scottish Qualifications Authority and the Scottish Government, our team are developing resources to support critical AI literacy skills to equip…
20.11.24

NC Data Science Education Summit

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…
12.11.24

New Escape Room: Undercover Mission in Norway

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a shiny new data-themed Escape Room: Undercover Mission in Norway! P5-7 and S1-3 students are being called to save the world by using their observation, analysis, and problem-solving skills! The Scottish DATA Vikings are plotting a global catastrophe using classified information. This…
12.11.24

Computer Science Week 2024: ‘Find the VIKINGS Secret Lair’ Live Escape Room

For Computer Science Week 2024, we delivered an online Escape Room Live Lesson for upper primary/lower secondary students. Agent K and Agent J – aka our Kate Farrell (Director of Curriculum Development and Professional Learning) and Jasmeen Kanwal (Project Officer) – led the mission to find the Scottish V.I.K.I.N.G.S. secret…
02.11.24

Eric Liddell 100 Award 2024

We are thrilled to have been awarded the Eric Liddell 100 Award!  Led by The Eric Liddell Community and partners, the Eric Liddell 100 Award is a celebration of Scotland’s athletics and sports, as well as community service.  Our team members Judy Robertson (Project Lead) and Jo Spiller (Director of Operations…
09.10.24

Maths Week Scotland 2024 – We Met the Authors: David Smith and James Cheshire

With Maths Week Scotland 2024 behind us, we can now look back at the fantastic data-themed activities that we delivered in partnership with Maths Week.  Maths Week Scotland is a week of events and activities dedicated to the maths that is all around us. The 2024 edition took place Monday 23 September – Sunday 29…
09.10.24

Maths Week Scotland 2024 – We Met the Author: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

With Maths Week Scotland 2024 behind us, we can now look back at the fantastic data-themed activities that we delivered in partnership with Maths Week.  Maths Week Scotland is a week of events and activities dedicated to the maths that is all around us. The 2024 edition took place Monday 23 September – Sunday 29…
09.10.24

Maths Week Scotland 2024 – ‘Locked in the DATA base’ Live Escape Room

With Maths Week Scotland 2024 behind us, we can now look back at the fantastic data-themed activities that we delivered in partnership with Maths Week.  Maths Week Scotland is a week of events and activities dedicated to the maths that is all around us. The 2024 edition took place Monday 23 September – Sunday 29…
12.09.24

2024 Maths Week

Maths Week Scotland is a week of events and activities dedicated to the maths that is all around us, with special events throughout the year. The 2024 edition will take place Monday 23 September – Sunday 29 September around the theme “Maths Tales”. The Data Education in Schools team will…