08.10.25
Doors Open Day 2025 in the Edinburgh Futures Institute
We were happy to participate for the second year in a row in the Edinburgh Futures Institute Doors Open Day, which took place on the 27th September 2025. The Institute, formerly the Old Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, is a futures-focused space for multidisciplinary collaboration, data-led innovation, education, research, and partnership….
01.10.25
AI in Scottish Schools: A Showcase of Resources for Primary and Secondary Teachers
On Friday 19th September 2025, we held an event in collaboration with Children’s Parliament and the Scottish AI Alliance. “AI in Scottish Schools” addressed teachers, educators, researchers, and policymakers and highlighted work introducing AI literacy for educators and learners and having children’s voices and rights at its heart. Our team at Data…
01.10.25
Datify a Nation! Kate Farrell and Jasmeen Kanwal at the RSS International Conference 2025
On the 2nd September 2025, our team members Kate Farrell and Jasmeen Kanwal were speakers at the Royal Statistical Society International Conference in Edinburgh, a well-attended event for professionals, researchers, students and all interested in learning about the impactful application of statistics and data science. Our colleagues presented the paper…
19.09.25
Building knowledge and confidence: Heriot Watt STEM Ambassadors programme and their use of Escape Room resources
The Heriot Watt outreach team have been using resources from the Data Education in Schools programme as part of their STEM Ambassadors programme for undergraduates with really positive results. Heriot Watt students can sign up to be STEM Ambassadors and are supported by the outreach team to develop the skills, confidence and knowledge to teach STEM…
29.07.25
REGISTRATIONS OPEN: AI in Scottish Schools: A Showcase of Resources for Primary and Secondary Teachers
When: Friday 19th September 2025, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM GMT+1 (in person), 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM GMT+1 (online) Where: In person (Edinburgh Futures Institute, 1.55) and online (MS Teams) REGISTER: link Join us in September to explore the world of AI & education, with a suite of new…
25.06.25
Stimulating change in practice with a Data Literacy Day in one West Lothian School
Data Education in Schools offers a Data Literacy course to teachers with the immediate effect of providing new understanding, approaches and resources to those individual teacher participants. This resulted in additional impacts, as the course was able to inspire teachers to make changes within their schools – with the Data Education in School’s support in doing…
25.06.25
The ‘ripple effect’ of change in one East Lothian primary school
Chris is a deputy head teacher at a primary school in East Lothian. He attended the Data Literacy professional learning course and has both directly adapted material and approaches from the course. He has also shared with other colleagues who in turn use and modify them, leading to ‘ripple effects’ of adaptation and evolution within the…
19.06.25
CDCS Digital Research Prize 2025
We are honoured to have been Highly Commended at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Data, Culture & Society (CDCS) Digital Research Prizes ceremony in the category “Best Impact from a Data-Led project”. We have been awarded for our data-themed Escape Rooms, which have been influencing discussions on game-based learning…
17.06.25
Opportunity for Teachers: funded places at the UKICER Conference
We are happy to be able to offer some funded places for teachers to attend the UK and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) conference, a forum for researchers and practitioners to meet and share advances in computer science education. The conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh on…
27.05.25
We’ve launched TRAILS – Teaching Responsible AI Literacy in Schools
We are delighted to be launching TRAILS – Teaching Responsible AI Literacy in Schools, our dedicated website to showcase our work bringing AI literacy into the Scottish schools. TRAILS is the result of various streams of work funded through the Responsible AI UK programme (with partners at The Scottish Government,…
06.05.25
Teaching Responsible AI Literacy in Secondary Schools
Do you want to use new AI technologies in your teaching practice? Do you want to teach young people about this new technology? Come along to in-person or online sessions from the University of Edinburgh and get access to new resources for AI literacy! Each session is repeated so please…
06.05.25
Young People’s Use of AI to Support Learning
The Scottish education system has learners at its heart. As new AI technology emerges, it’s important to consider young people’s views. Do high school learners use GenAI tools for learning? What do they use it for? What are their concerns about using this technology? What do they think is fair…