Our practitioner’s guides and toolkits

Explore our Teaching for Digital Futures collection of teacher’s guides and learning materials:

Other practitioner’s guides and toolkits

 

Practitioner publications and reports

Selected academic publications

For the full list of our research team’s academic publications, you can visit the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research in Digital Education publications page: Publications | Centre for Research in Digital Education.

  • Robertson, J., Abaci, S., Linklater, H., Amirkhanashvili, G., & Lawson, T. 2026, Plants and Crocodiles: Learning about data literacy pedagogical practices from primary school teachers, Science and Children, vol. 63, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 26-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/00368148.2025.2585565 [Publication details]
  • Robertson, J., Abaci, S., Farrell, K. & Kanwal, J. 2025, Teaching responsible AI literacy in schools: Perspectives from academics and teachers. in F McNeil, C Alexandru, S Sentance & Q Cutts (eds), UKICER ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on UK and Ireland Computing Education Research, 2, ACM, pp. 1-3, The 7th UK and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 4/09/25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3754508.3754541 [Publication details]
  • Botta, C., Robertson, J., McMellon, C., Lawson, J., Ajala, J., Lugo Gonzales, S., & al. 2025, Secondary Students as Co-Researchers on Generative AI in Learning: Empowering Youth to Shape National Education Policy, in F McNeil, C Alexandru, S Sentance & Q Cutts (eds), UKICER ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on UK and Ireland Computing Education Research, 10, ACM, pp. 1-7, The 7th UK and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 3/09/25. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3754508.3754519 [Publication details]
  • Vizgirda, V., McNeill, F. & Robertson, J. 2025, Teacher online educational resource search in education system context. in G Buchanan, H Liu, D McKay & D Oard (eds), CHIIR 2025 – Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 81-99, 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2025, Melbourne, Australia, 24/03/25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3698204.3716448 [Publication details]
  • Ross, J., Priyadharshini, E., Dyer, H., Atabey, A., Botta, C., Wilson, C., Robertson, J. & Holmes, W. (ed.) 2025, Imaginaries of responsible generative AI in secondary education. in W Holmes (ed.), Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence and Education. Elgar Handbooks in Education, Edward Elgar Publishing. [Publication details]
  • Meagher, L. & Robertson, J. (ed.) 2024, Policy Landscape, GenAI in Scottish schools. The Centre for Research in Digital Education, Edinburgh. [Publication details]
  • Robertson, J., Abaci, S., Linklater, H. & Kanwal, J. 2023 ‘Building Teachers’ Confidence and Competence in Teaching Data Literacy through KnowledgeCreating Communities‘ EdArXiv. https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/zye4g [Publication details]
  • Andries, V. & Robertson, J. 2023, ‘Alexa doesn’t have that many feelings: Children’s understanding of AI through interactions with smart speakers in their homes‘, Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5, 100176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2023.100176 [Publication details]
  • Farrell, K., Watts, J., Robertson, J. & Lawson, T. 2023 ‘A flexible school and college level qualification in Data Science‘ EdArXiv. https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/rn5ag [Publication details]
  • Robertson, J. Farrell, K., Lawson, T., & Watts, J. 2023, ‘Online Learning: Cyber Security and Data Science National Progression Awards’. [Publication details]
  • Robertson, J., Amirkhanashvili, G., Abaci, S., Linklater, H. & Lawson, T. 2023 ‘Plants, volcanoes and crocodiles: learning about data literacy pedagogical practices from primary school teachers‘ EdArXiv. https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/wsn8p  [Publication details]
  • Robertson, J., Farrell, K., Berg, T. & Linklater, H. 2023 ‘Computational thinking with girlguiding‘ EdArXiv. https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/ft2qa [Publication details]
  • Robertson, J., Binnie, L., Boyle, A., Christiansen, K., Kong, A., Mcmellon, C., O’Callaghan, C., Phoenix-Hill, R, Reed, L, Spencer, D, Turnball, G, Turnball, R & Wright, L 2022, Learners’ views of computer science in Scottish schools. vol. 1, 1 edn, The Centre for Research in Digital Education, Edinburgh. [Publication details]
  • Abaci, S., Robertson, J., Linklater, H. & McNeill, F. 2020, ‘Supporting school teachers’ rapid engagement with online education‘, Educational Technology Research and Development, vol. N/A, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-020-09839-5 [Publication details]
  • Lawson, T. & Robertson, J. 2020, Building Digital Technology Capacity to Support Data Education in Edinburgh and South East Scotland Region Schools: Summary and Recommendations. [Publication details]
  • Lawson, T & Robertson, J 2020, Building Digital Technology Capacity to Support Data Education in Edinburgh and South East Scotland Region Schools: Full Report. [Publication details]
  • Robertson, J. & Tisdall, E.K.M. 2020, ‘The importance of consulting children and young people about data literacy‘, Journal of Media Literacy Education, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 58-74. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2020-12-3-6 [Publication details]
  • Farrell, K. & Robertson, J. 2019, Interdisciplinary data education: Teaching primary and secondary learners how to be data citizens. in Proceedings of the 14th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education., 17, WiPSCE’19, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3361721.3362120 [Publication details]
  • Robertson, J., Farrell, K., Berg, T. & Linklater, H. 2023 ‘Computational thinking with girlguiding’.
  • Farrell, K., Watts, J., Robertson, J. & Lawson, T. 2023 ‘A flexible school and college level qualification in Data Science’.
  • Andries, V. & Robertson, J. 2023 ‘”Alexa doesn’t have that many feelings”: Children’s understanding of AI through interactions with smart speakers in their homes’.