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 so.
One example of this took place in West Calder High School, a secondary school, where Dale, Faculty Head for Technologies (Business Education, Computing Science and Craft, Design and Graphics), took the Data Literacy course in 2025.
Data Literacy Day
As a result, he worked with colleagues to launch a new introductory Data Literacy Day for incoming S1s. This impactful change in practice introduced Data Literacy to students and emphasised its importance at the very start of their senior school experience and began building their capacity to deal with data in an increasingly data-dependent world. The Vikings Data Escape Room resources were key to the day; they had been successfully piloted earlier in the year and were adapted for this larger scale initiative. ‘The kids loved it.’ The resources consisted of: Agent Briefing Logic Puzzles, Find the Lair, and Stop the Time Heist, with all resources provided by the Data Education in Schools staff. Both the content and the overall exploration approach offered by the course worked well.
