26.03.24
Micro:bits on the move 2024
From Mull to Monifeith, Marrister to Monreith and Moffat – Micro:bits are on the move! Funding from The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) is supporting the Data Education in Schools team to help students from the University of Edinburgh (School of Informatics) visit schools across Scotland for the…
26.03.24
LILAC Information Literacy Award
The Data Education in Schools team are thrilled to have jointly won the 2024 Information Literacy Award, announced as part of the LILAC conference held in Leeds on the 25th March. The Award is organised by the CILIP Information Literacy Group (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and the…
20.03.24
Data Education in Schools nominated for British Data Award
The Data Education in Schools team have reached the final of the 2024 British Data Awards. The team have been nominated in the ‘Education Initiative of the Year’ category. Finalists for this award include Admiral Insurance UK, Alliance for Data Science Professionals, Applied Data Science Partners, Corndel, Eden Smith, Education…
26.02.24
West Lothian in-service day
On Monday 19th February, the Data Education in Schools team were delighted to be invited to run a full morning in-service programme on Data literacy for primary school teachers in West Lothian. Fifty-two fantastic and engaged teachers from five local primary schools spent the morning on a range of interactive,…
06.02.24
‘Towards Embedding Responsible AI in the School System: Co-Creation with Young People’
The University of Edinburgh has received Arts and Humanities Research Council funding for the project ‘Towards Embedding Responsible AI in the School System: Co-Creation with Young People’ as part of their Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme. The project will investigate what generative AI could look like in secondary education, working…
18.01.24
SSERC and Data Education in Schools to deliver online course
We’re thrilled to be working with SSERC to deliver a new professional learning course for teachers. ‘Saving the world with data: Data literacy across the BGE curriculum‘ will run across 5 evenings (7-9pm) on Wednesdays from 21st Feb. The course cost is £50 and includes a range of learning materials…
09.01.24
Royal Institution Christmas lecture recording
On 12th December the Data Education in Schools team streamed the recording of the first of three Royal Institution Christmas lectures with Professor Mike Wooldridge (University of Oxford). ‘The Truth Behind AI’, focused on the rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) exploring some of the big questions facing AI…
19.12.23
Scottish Parliament call for evidence
Professor Judy Robertson was invited to speak to the Scottish Parliament Committee for Education, Children & Young People on the subject of AI and education on 13th December 2023. Judy was joined by Ollie Bray (Strategic Director, Education Scotland), Helena Good (Director, Daydream Believers) Chris Ranson (Physics Teacher and Lead…
13.11.23
1000 Agents of Data escape live lesson
On Friday 10th November over 1000 learners from across Scotland joined Data Education in Schools as part of our newest live lesson activity. Image: Agent K and Agent J locked in the DATA base The event imagined learners had been locked in a room while working late on paperwork from…
06.11.23
Schools win data visualisation award!
On Friday 3rd November Kate Farrell, Director of Curriculum Development and Professional Learning, collected the ‘Data Visualisation’ award at the 2023 Data Summit held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The Data Lab competition asked entrants to create a data visualisation on the topic of “Community”. The judges assessed the…
26.10.23
Kate Farrell to present at SXSW conference
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 thrilled that the session has been included and that Kate Farrell (Data Education in Schools) will be joining…
24.10.23
Alexa, what are you thinking about?
The latest Raspberry Pi foundation publication ‘(Hello World)’ features an interview with Professor Judy Robertson focused on research exploring children’s understanding of AI through their interactions with smart speakers. (Hello World) has a readership of 39K across 190 countries. The October issue focuses on Teaching and AI. The article ‘Alexa,…