12.04.21
Event recording – Making sense of coronavirus data with your learners
‘Making sense of coronavirus data with your learners’ took place on 9th December 2020. Making data meaningful in the context of coronavirus Dr Glenna Nightingale from the University of Edinburgh and Dr Darren Macey from Cambridge Mathematics will present recent work they have been doing on analysing and interpreting Coronavirus…
06.04.21
Event recording – Physical Fitness and the Pandemic: what the data can tell your learners
Physical Fitness and the Pandemic: what the data can tell your learners took place on 14th December 2020 and explores what data tells us about the importance of physical activity for learners during the pandemic. What we know and what we don’t know about physical activity and health – and…
01.04.21
New project: National Progression Award in Cyber Security and Data Science
This project, funded by Skills Development Scotland, will undertake a feasibility study to understand if the school computing science curriculum can be delivered online effectively and sustainably with a focus on National Progression Awards in Cyber Security & Data Science. The University of Edinburgh will look in detail at both…
31.03.21
New project: NPA/PDA resource development
This DataLab funded project will work with Effini to deliver a set of training materials around the learning outcomes of two national qualifications, the National Progression Award (NPA) in Data Science and the Professional Development Award (PDA) in Data Science. They will be designed to support online, in person, and…
19.03.21
Tune Into Data – event recording
Tune Into Data took place on 27th January 2021. Professor Judy Robertson hosts Craig Steele, David Corbell, Jo Spiller, Kate Farrell and Jenni Doonan to talk about Data and Music. Do you want to find out more about how the music you listen to creates data patterns? These data patterns;…
15.03.21
New project: Mapping NCCE computing material to the Scottish curriculum
The aim of this Skills Development Scotland funded project is to process the Key Stage 1- 4 curriculum materials developed by the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) from the Teach Computing website and the accompanying NCCE video lessons to tag them with the relevant Scottish curriculum outcomes where appropriate. This project will be led by University of Edinburgh, in collaboration…
11.03.21
Young People’s Advisory Group
Changes to Computing education are being discussed and we want young people to be in the conversation! We are working with the British Computer Society (BCS) Scottish Computing Education Committee to set up a Young People’s Advisory Group to learn about what you want to learn in Computing Science and…
14.02.21
Digital and Data Literacy
Digital and data literacy: Comparing children’s understanding of data and online privacy with experts’ and advocates’ data literacy practices. If you missed Dr Gianfranco Polizzi, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham, speaking on the 20th January, you can now catch up with the seminar recording….
12.02.21
Tune into Music Data
Music is a creative, imaginative subject so it’s difficult to see how data can support that creativity. We’ll look at the many ways data can help musicians and those in the music industry. Charts Data A database of top 10 charts over the years is probably the first thing…
30.11.20
Support for Industry volunteers
Craig, Judy and Kate from the Data Education in Schools team have produced videos to support industry volunteers or STEM Ambassadors working with school learners. The short videos cover topics like what to expect from your first visit, basics of child protection, an overview of the Scottish computing curriculum, answering…
20.11.20
Discovering the NPA in Data Science and new guides
Educators from all over Scotland and beyond gathered together last week to find out about the National Progression Award in Data Science and the new Educator and Learner Guides. Presenting the webinar, we had the authors of the guides, Kate Farrell (University of Edinburgh) and Jo Watts (Effini) talking about…
12.11.20
Data Skills Live: where computer science meets theatre
On 4th Nov we ran our first Data Skills Live Lesson where 350 learners came together from 15 Scottish local authorities to defend the rhino and learn some new data skills in the process. If you’re new to the idea of a live lesson on YouTube, don’t worry we will…