Our Events deliver a wide range of information about data science and digital literacy to teachers and primary and secondary learners. Events take the form of seminars, live interactive lessons and professional discussions.
Access event recordings for individual events by searching our Past Events page or visit the Data Education in Schools video channel.
Have a taste of the kind of activities we deliver by playing the Digital Skills Education Interactive Lessons below.
Venue: Online
Save the date for this online professional learning session for Education Scotland’s Literacy and English Curriculum Network, with Prof Judy Robertson.
Find out moreVenue: Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 2.55
Are you an educator, policymaker or researcher interested in designing for children?
Find out moreVenue: Online (Teams)
This seminar will describe a pilot project run collaboratively between George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh where S5-6 pupils worked towards their Young Stem Leaders Award by running Micro:bits activities in local primary schools.
Find out moreVenue: Stirling Court Hotel
The DES/TRAILS team are delivering two workshops at the National Education Conference for Scottish Teachers for Enhancing Practice (STEP).
Find out moreVenue: Online (Teams)
Find out about how to introduce the topic of AI with your Primary learners. Discover simple, accessible activities that you can use straight away to help young people learn how different AI tools work and think critically about AI use.
Find out moreVenue: Online
Save the date for this online professional learning event, with Dr Serdar Abaci.
Find out moreVenue: Online (Teams)
In collaboration with Scottish Government and Education Scotland, we have developed a new curriculum framework for AI education in Scotland, as well as a set of high quality, cross-curricular resources for teaching with and about AI in Primary.
Find out moreVenue: Online (Teams)
This event "Teaching Data Science in the Senior School" will introduce you to the NPA Data Science Qualification and delivering it. In this one hour session you will be shown how to teach Data Science confidently in the Senior phase with ready-to-use resources. No prior programming experience required.
Find out moreVenue: Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Generative AI is fast becoming embedded in our daily lives and ensuring its use in education is responsible, ethical and equitable is a key consideration for teachers, school leaders and policy makers.
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