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…
13.06.24
Hybrid Plug in the Numbers Interactive Lesson
On the 28th May 2024, Data Education in Schools and Digital Skills Education welcomed a class of 24 students (P7) from Newcraighill Primary School to the University of Edinburgh for the Interactive Lesson Plug in the Numbers, delivered in a hybrid format for the first time. Six primary classes from the…
09.05.24
British Data Awards Ceremony 2024
The Data Education in Schools team are thrilled to have won the ‘Education Initiative of the Year’ Award at the British Data Awards last night. Jo Spiller (Programme Director) and Jasmeen Kanwal (Project Officer) attended the awards ceremony in the Great Hall of the Grand Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden,…
07.05.24
Creative AI for Teachers
On Tuesday 30th April, Data Education in Schools and Digital Skills Education were delighted to host a workshop for teachers on the use of Generative AI to create art in the classroom. Craig Steele (DES Digital Skills Consultant and Director at Digital Skills Education) and Daniel Devine (Digital Skills Education)…
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…
07.03.24
STEM Nation Expo 2024
We are excited to be a Supporter of the STEM Nation Award programme. The programme has been designed by Education Scotland to support schools and community learning and development providers to develop high-quality STEM learning in their setting and to celebrate their achievements along the way. On the 6th March,…
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,…