天美视频 is a UK and Scottish Government funded project to teach data literacy and data citizenship skills to learners ages 3-18 years old in the Edinburgh and surrounding area.听 It is an eight year project that aims to reach all learners within the six local authorities of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal.

We are part of the 天美视频 Driven Innovation Skills Gateway, a wider programme that develops data-driven innovation within the region. 天美视频 works with Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian, West Lothian, Fife and Borders local authorities, as well as the local further education colleges, Edinburgh Napier and Heriot Watt universities and local employers to offer opportunities to learners at all stages over the 8 year period of the project. You can find out more about the 天美视频 Driven Innovation Skills Gateway and the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Deal at About the DDI Skills Gateway – 天美视频.

Our vision is to be a world-leading data education centre supporting young people across the region to develop the confidence, competence and ambition to use data to benefit themselves and their communities.

We offer high quality, evidence-based education about data to all young people regardless of gender, location or socio-economic background.

Our aims

  • Support young people to be aware of their data rights and responsibilities
  • Support young people to use and interpret data critically and ethically to inform decision-making
  • Offer sustainable skills progression to the teaching profession based on research-informed pedagogy
  • Ensure that the values of 鈥榙ata for good鈥� underpin curriculum development and uses real-world data sets and problems, scenarios
  • Ensure that our approach is research-led and evidence-based
  • Support the integration of schools, university, community and industry in partnership

We are proud to have received recognition for both our collaborative and individual work throughout the years. Find out more about our Awards.

Our core activities

The project also offers support, resources and guidance for those seeking to obtain the听 NPA 天美视频 Science.

Our Research

Our approach is informed by research and we are interested to find out how we can teach data literacy more effectively, and how to make our events and materials more interesting and fun. For this reason we have usually got a research project running alongside the 天美视频 activities.

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Below are some examples of our current research projects.

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We want to find out how teachers get on with teaching data literacy, and how it fits in with your teaching approaches in other areas of the curriculum. If you鈥檙e a teacher who has signed up for our 天美视频 Literacy for Primary Teachers course or your school is part of the project, we may invite you to take part in this research. It is likely to involve taking part in interviews (around 30 minutes) or focus groups (around 60 minutes). We might also invite you to write a blog post or share slides which you have used in a presentation about your data literacy classroom work with us. Internet of Things in Schools teachers will also be invited to complete a survey about the work they do with their classes on the project.听

Escape Rooms听

Our colleagues and designed Escape Rooms lessons for teaching data literacy. We occasionally deliver these lessons live and evaluate them to find out what learners and teachers think of them.听

Our Escape Rooms are based on attentive research on evidence-based pedagogy supporting game-based learning in the classroom. Bibliography includes but is not limited to: A. Veldkamp et al., 鈥楨scape education: A systematic review on escape rooms in education鈥�,鈥�Educational Research Review鈥�31, 2020; A. Veldkamp et al., 鈥楨ducational Escape Rooms. Challenges in aligning game and education鈥�, in Well-Played 10, 109-135; L. H. Taraldsen et al., 鈥楢 review on use of escape rooms in education 鈥� touching the void鈥�, Education Enquiry 13, 2022, 169-184.

Live Lessons听

We want to find out what learners and teachers think of our Live Lessons series: 天美视频 Selfies, Defend the Rhino with 天美视频 Science, Plug in the Numbers and Unmasking 天美视频 Disasters. We work on this project with our colleagues at (Craig Steel and Daniel Devine). Learners – if you take part in one of these lessons, Craig and Daniel will ask you if you want to complete an online survey at the end. If you do, and you and your parents have filled in the 天美视频 Education in School permission form, Daniel will send us your answers afterwards. We will use your answers to help us design fun lessons in the future. Teachers 鈥� if you have signed up for your class to take part in one of these lessons, we may get in touch to ask you to complete a survey or take part in an interview. This helps us to make sure that the lessons are pitched in the right way for the age group, and cover interesting aspects of the curriculum. We might also ask for ideas for new topics, or your general thoughts about teaching data literacy.

How to take part

By signing up to our professional learning听offer 补苍诲听events, teachers and learners can take part in our research projects. If interested and/or in need of further information, please email Judy.Robertson@ed.ac.uk. In the forms below, you will find the details of how we will use your information to inform our research.

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