26.01.23
Micro:bits on the move
Funding from The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) has enabled the Data Education in Schools team to help students from the University of Edinburgh (School of Informatics) visit schools across Scotland for the purpose of running Micro:bit workshops with learners. 60 schools registered interest in ‘Micro:bits on the…
24.01.23
New resource: Plug in the numbers
Digital Skills Education have released a new video walk through of ‘Plug in the Numbers’ to support teachers with limited experience of the Live Lesson format. Plug in the Numbers is an interactive activity that uses data science skills to estimate the amount of electricity that could be generated by…
16.11.22
4 Day Data Science Course (Secondary)
Moray House School of Education and Sport is offering a free course on data science in the Secondary classroom. Data science is the ability to ask questions, collect, analyse, interpret, communicate about data. As technology makes it easier to collect vast amounts of data, the skills to use data to…
11.10.22
Put Your Data Skills to Work
Digital Skills Education have developed a poster showcasing a range of careers utilising data skills. From engineering to entertainment there are opportunities to use data within many workplaces. The poster is free to download and display. We hope the poster will help inspire learners to think about the possibilities for working…
03.10.22
Data skills live lessons reach over 20,000 leaners
We’re thrilled that our data skills live lessons have now reached over 20,000 learners. Our engagement counters tipped over 20,000 as a result of the 2022 Maths Week Scotland ‘Data Selfie’ event held on 27th September 2022. To date, we have developed three live lesson activities in partnership with Skills…
20.09.22
Welcome Dr Jasmeen Kanwal!
Data Education in Schools welcomes Dr Jasmeen Kanwal to the team as our new Project Officer. Over the next two years, I will be working with Kate Farrell (Director of Curriculum Development and Professional Learning) to develop and promote teaching resources and professional learning opportunities for teachers, as well as…
05.09.22
Book Review: The Alignment Problem
Through an impressive mastery of cutting-edge papers in AI, a deep understanding of the history of cognitive science, and four hundred interviews with leading scientists, Brian Christian presents an in-depth account of AI and how we can engineer it to align with human values. I studied AI at university, and…
01.09.22
The class that kept falling asleep
Or… How data skills can keep you awake! Jo Spiller, Judy Robertson and Tommy Lawson presented on the themes of teaching data skills, data ethics and artificial intelligence as part of the University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference 2022 held in June. Their presentation is now available via the…
01.09.22
Teacher Professional Learning Workshops – book now!
We know from our teacher community it can be difficult to travel for professional learning so we’re changing our professional learning (PL) model and bringing our workshops to schools in the Edinburgh and South East of Scotland area (Fife, Edinburgh, West Lothian, Midlothian, East Lothian, Scottish Borders)! If you are…
29.08.22
About our research
We’ve usually got a research project running alongside Data Education in Schools. We’re interested to find out how we can teach data literacy more effectively, and how to make our events and materials more interesting and fun. Research Team The research team members are: Judy Robertson Serdar Abaci Holly Linklater …
11.08.22
Using data to help teachers find resources
Can you contribute to developing better tools to help teachers find educational resources online? Researchers from the University of Edinburgh are studying how teachers in Scotland find, use, and share online educational resources in their teaching, with the aim of developing tools to make this easier. We are doing short…
29.06.22
Published! Hello World
Hello World, the computing and digital making magazine for educators, has published an article on our British Sign Language project. The article is featured on the Hello World website and in Hello World Issue 19: Sustainability and Computing. The article provides an overview of the project and its aim to…