Teach AI Literacy Handbook

This handbook is aimed at upper primary and secondary teachers in Scotland who want to teach their classes about how AI works and how to use AI responsibly to support their learning. The handbook contains an AI curriculum framework relating to Curriculum for Excellence outcomes.

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Data Literacy Outcomes in the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, by level and topic

We have identified outcomes across the whole Broad General Education and grouped them into topics suitable for applying Data Skills.

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Let’s write a story

This is an 'unplugged' activity to help demystify AI, where learners work together to create a simple 'ChatGPT' system to generate a story.

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Let’s generate a sentence

This is an 'unplugged' activity to help demystify AI, where learners work together to create a baby 'ChatGPT' system and generate a sentence.

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Is this a Zegah?

This is a little activity to help demystify AI to try and explain in a very simple way how machine learning works, what the chat bots we’re using are actually doing, what are large language models actually doing?

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Fizzy Data

Create your own Zero-waste Data Physicalisation (or Fizzy Data, for short!) In this activity that requires both creativity and understanding a data set, learners will create a fun, physical representation of a provided data set using the materials and tools available.

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Data Viz Quiz

Put your graph-reading skills to the test in our Data Viz Quiz challenge!

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Christmas Graphs Quiz

Put your graph-reading skills to the test in our seasonal Data Viz Quiz challenge!

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Books for discussing data

Below is a list of books which teachers have found useful for starting conversations about data in the classroom. Book reviews from teachers and learners will be linked below each title as we receive them.

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