Past Events

Venue: Online

Can technology transform teaching and learning? What is needed to use technology effectively in the classroom? In this webinar, Dr Serdar Abaci will present the evolving role of technology in education, from its historical roots to today's AI-driven landscape and evidence on its effectiveness. The session will unpack what digital pedagogy means, explore the relationship between technology and pedagogy, and models to think about teaching with technology in the classroom. Examples from both primary and secondary schools will be discussed within the Scottish educational context.

Venue: Online (Teams)

This event "Teaching Data Science in the Senior School" will introduce you to the NPA Data Science Qualification and delivering it. In this one hour session you will be shown how to teach Data Science confidently in the Senior phase with ready-to-use resources. No prior programming experience required.

Venue: Online (Teams)

In collaboration with Scottish Government and Education Scotland, we have developed a new curriculum framework for AI education in Scotland, as well as a set of high quality, cross-curricular resources for teaching with and about AI in Secondary.   

Venue: Online (Teams)

Find out about how to introduce the topic of AI with your Primary learners.  Discover simple, accessible activities that you can use straight away to help young people learn how different AI tools work and think critically about AI use.   

Venue: in person (Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute) and online (Teams)

We warmly invite you to attend the Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture "AI Education for Meaningful Life, Life Together, and Life on the Planet", hosted  by the Centre for Research in Digital Education.

Venue: Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 2.55

Are you an educator, policymaker or researcher interested in designing for children?

Venue: Online

Save the date for this online professional learning session for Education Scotland’s Literacy and English Curriculum Network, with Prof Judy Robertson.

Venue: Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF

The University of Oxford and University of Edinburgh are delighted to invite you to an interactive one-day workshop to reflect on the design and use of EdTech in secondary schools.

Venue: Online

Scotland's Development Education Centre (Scotdec) are holding an online interactive session that will help teachers explore issues around refugees and migration, empowering learners with data literacy skills.

Venue: Edinburgh Futures Institute, level 0

Visit the Data Education in Schools stall and play interactive activities on data and AI! We are a UK and Scottish Government funded project within the Data-Driven Innovation initiative, which addresses criticalities in the Scottish education system, particularly challenges in ensuring that inclusive growth is at the basis of Scotland’s digital futures.

Venue: Dundee Digital Learning Suite, Eastern Primary School, Broughty Ferry, DD5 3AE

Everyone’s talking about Artificial Intelligence – but how can YOU get started? How can you use AI in your classroom?

A live lesson saving the rhino with data science.

Behind the Scenes – an explanation of Data Skills Live: Defend The Rhino for teachers, schools and computing science students.

Find out about delivering the NPA in Data Science in your school.

What data tells us about the importance of physical activity for learners during the pandemic.

Making data meaningful in the context of coronavirus.

Gain new skills & expertise and be part of a community of leaders in Scottish data education knowledge, skills, qualifications and careers.

You’ll use data science skills to analyse CCTV data from across a South African national park. Then create your own machine learning model that recognises images of poachers, and work together to catch them before it’s too late.

Music data and data music – tune in to find out more about the ways you can use music and data within the curriculum.

This event took place on 25th February 2021.

We look forward to welcoming Dr Annika Wolff, LUT University, on 24th March, 1-2pm.

Use data visualisation software to create an abstract drawing based on data you choose to share.

Dr Lyndsay Grant will draw on the ethnography of a secondary school, showing how educational data practices worked to predict, anticipate and intervene in pupils’ futures.

This session will look at how to ask questions about your community using existing Scottish census datasets.

Find out how to use Data Nation with your learners. Data Nation has been developed by EDINA, a centre for digital expertise at The University of Edinburgh, and combines official 2011 census data with contemporary and historical mapping.

Save the rhino with data science Data Skills Live: Defend The Rhino 🦏

Create your own abstract data-driven selfie Join our data science team to create a data-driven piece of digital art about the person you know best: you.