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Women in Data

Celebrating women working in data and challenging industry to promote and retain women are core priorities for the  Data Driven Innovation  ’Women in Data’ project.   Professor Judy Robertson, Chair in Digital Learning, has taken part in the project as one of 50 women interviewed about their work in the tech sector.  …

Badger Test

Digital vs Data: Skills Development & Literate

Turn on the news, read twitter or listen to the radio and you are bound to hear the words digital and data. Governments talk about digital infrastructure, schools might be focused on digital skills or your child may be encouraged to become data literate. Sometimes it is hard to understand…

Data Explorers – Happy Graphs

Data Explorers is our occasional blog series that aims to provide interesting ideas and discussion topics using data. Each video is 8 to 10 minutes long and aimed at teachers and other adults. We aim to consider diverse topic areas that can inspire activities and conversations with young people both…

Data Explorers – Asking Questions about Corona Virus

Data Explorers is our occasional blog series that aims to provide interesting ideas and discussion topics using data. Each video is 8 to 10 minutes long and aimed at teachers and other adults. We aim to consider diverse topic areas that can inspire activities and conversations with young people both…

Data Explorers – Yummy Graphs!

Data Explorers is our occasional blog series that aims to provide interesting ideas and discussion topics using data. Each video is 8 to 10 minutes long and aimed at teachers and other adults. We aim to consider diverse topic areas that can inspire activities and conversations with young people both…

Apps & Tools to support data literacy

Data literacy is becoming an increasingly important skill. The good news is that means many organisations are starting to develop tools and apps that can support learners of all ages (an their teachers!) in their journey to develop their data skills. The list below provides links to some tools that…

Industry specialists working together with teachers to create and deliver a new cyber security lesson

For the first time cyber industry specialists have worked together with teachers to create and deliver a new cyber security lesson. Skills Development Scotland is working with cyber experts on a new approach  to help young people in school develop cyber skills while raising awareness of careers in cyber security. Six…

New Smart City pilot for Edinburgh schools announced as digital transformation continues

School pupils across Edinburgh will be challenged to come up with creative ways of using new technologies to tackle local issues and help transform their hometown into a Smart City as part of a unique partnership with local businesses and organisations.  CityFibre, the City of Edinburgh Council, and the University of Edinburgh’s Data Education in Schools programme – part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region…

Presenting the project to the Royal Society

In January, I travelled to London to present to the Royal Society’s Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (RS ACME). I talked to them about the new NPA qualification in Data Science. This was of particular interest to schools and organisations involved in teaching A-Level Maths which involved an aspect of…

Cat tracking Griffin and Phoenix

Cat Data Tracking – How far do Griffin and Phoenix Travel?   I have two cats called Griffin and Phoenix. They are two year old brothers (at least in human years – by cat years they are rowdy teenagers). Griffin has the white bib and Phoenix is the sandy coloured…

Greg Michaelson

Greg Michaelson joined the Centre for Research in Digital Education as an Honorary Professor in October 2019.  Greg is a proponent of strong Computational Thinking, as a principled discipline for systematic problem analysis and program construction. He has recently published critiques of classic Computational Thinking as too computation oriented, and of…