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…
19.03.25
Unbelievably Creative AI show on STV News
We were happy to welcome STV News to one of the sessions of our February run of the Unbelievably Creative show at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. The session featured in a news story on how Scottish school pupils are learning about the potential and risks of AI. Designed and delivered by…
12.03.25
Goodison Group Scotland’s Futures Forum at the Scottish Parliament
On the 19th February, our Programme Director Judy Robertson and Jen Ross, Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Research in Digital Education, were invited to speak at the Goodison Group Scotland’s Futures Forum at the Scottish Parliament. Judy and Jen presented research…
04.03.25
Unbelievably Creative at the Edinburgh Futures Institute
We have been happy to work with our partners at Digital Skills Education to bring the free, interactive Unbelievably Creative AI Show to the Edinburgh Futures Institute. In February 2025, we hosted six classes from Edinburgh secondary schools for a total of 140 learners. The participants were S1 to S4…