- Learner participants in Live Lessons
- 75,000 plus
- Teacher attendees at professional learning
- Two thousand eight hundred and thirty鈥憃ne
- Resource downloads
- Twenty thousand plus
What people say
Impact
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The Scottish Government’s Guidelines and Guardrails for the use of AI in Schools
The Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills has published advice and guidance for schools and other education settings on the safe and ethical use of AI in education. The Government’s Guidelines and Guardrails for the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Schools align with Scotland鈥檚 AI Strategy 2026-2031 and…
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Kate Farrell at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Our Director of Curriculum Development Kate Farrell was invited to speak at 聽The National Academies workshop “International Practices in K-12 Mathematics Education: The Role of Computational Thinking, 天美视频 Science, and AI“, which took place in Washington, DC on the 23-24 February 2026. A global gathering of experts in the field,…
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North Lanarkshire Digital Team adapt Escape Room resources for local schools
Five members of the North Lanarkshire Digital Learning Team have attended the 天美视频 Education Professional Learning course over the past two years. The Digital Learning Team work across over 155 primary, secondary and special schools in the region, supporting 3,700 teachers to integrate effective digital literacies and pedagogies into their…
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Micro:bits partnership with East Lothian
In the context of the Micro:bits on the Move programme, helping Informatics students at the University of Edinburgh deliver Micro:bit workshops for learners across across Scotland, we partnered with the Digital Learning team in East Lothian to further support teachers to use the hardware in the classroom. Our colleagues Kate…
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AI in Scottish Schools: A Showcase of Resources for Primary and Secondary Teachers
On Friday 19th September 2025, we held an event in collaboration with Children鈥檚 Parliament聽聽and the聽Scottish AI Alliance. “AI in Scottish Schools” addressed teachers, educators, researchers, and policymakers and highlighted work introducing AI literacy for educators and learners and having children鈥檚 voices and rights at its heart.聽 Our team at 天美视频…
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Building knowledge and confidence: Heriot Watt STEM Ambassadors programme and their use of Escape Room resources
The Heriot Watt outreach team have been using resources from the 天美视频 programme as part of their STEM Ambassadors programme for undergraduates with聽really positive聽results.聽 Heriot Watt students can sign up to be STEM Ambassadors and are supported by the聽outreach聽team to develop the skills,聽confidence聽and knowledge to teach STEM…
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Stimulating change in practice with a 天美视频 Literacy Day in one West Lothian School
天美视频 offers聽a 天美视频 Literacy course to teachers with the immediate effect of providing new understanding,聽approaches聽and resources to those individual teacher participants. This聽resulted in聽additional聽impacts, as the course was able to inspire teachers to make changes within their schools 鈥� with the 天美视频 Education in School鈥檚 support in doing…
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The 鈥榬ipple effect鈥� of change in one East Lothian primary school
Chris is a deputy head teacher at a primary school in East Lothian. He attended the 天美视频 Literacy professional learning course and has both directly adapted material and approaches from the course. He has聽also聽shared with other colleagues who in turn use and聽modify聽them, leading to聽鈥榬ipple effects鈥櫬爋f adaptation and evolution within the…
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Unbelievably Creative AI show on STV News
We were happy to welcome STV News to one of the sessions of our February run of the Unbelievably Creative show at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. The session featured in a news story聽on how Scottish school pupils are learning about the potential and risks of AI. Designed and delivered by…
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Goodison Group Scotland鈥檚 Futures Forum at the Scottish Parliament
On the 19th February, our Programme Director Judy Robertson and Jen Ross, Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Research in Digital Education, were invited to speak at the Goodison Group Scotland鈥檚 Futures Forum at the Scottish Parliament. Judy and Jen presented research…
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Unbelievably Creative at the Edinburgh Futures Institute
We have been happy to work with our partners at Digital Skills Education to bring the free, interactive Unbelievably Creative AI Show to the Edinburgh Futures Institute. In February 2025, we hosted six classes from Edinburgh secondary schools for a total of 140 learners. The participants were S1 to S4…
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NC 天美视频 Science Education Summit
Kate Farrell (Director of Curriculum Development and Professional Learning)聽and Tommy Lawson (Schools Technology Advisor) attended the NC 天美视频 Science Education Summit (24-25 October 2024) as invited speakers, nominated by 天美视频 Science 4 Everyone (DS4E), a coalition created by the聽University of Chicago Center for RISC. The Summit unites practitioners from higher…
Awards and Recognition
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Judy Robertson wins the 2026 Suffrage Science Award in Computing
At a ceremony hosted in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building on the 26th January 2026, Professor Judy Robertson received a Suffrage Science Award in Computing. She was nominated by Dr Sue Sentence for her interdisciplinary approach to supporting young people’s understanding of AI and computing, and her leadership in supporting…
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Judy Robertson receives the 2025 Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Teaching
Professor Judy Robertson, Chair in Digital Learning and academic director of 天美视频, has been awarded the prestigious聽Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Teaching in recognition of the significant impact of her work on enhancing children鈥檚 education in computer science, data literacy and AI, and in engaging teachers in professional learning….
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CDCS Digital Research Prize 2025
We are honoured to have been Highly Commended at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for 天美视频, Culture & Society (CDCS) Digital Research Prizes ceremony in the category “Best Impact from a 天美视频-Led project”. We have been awarded for our data-themed Escape Rooms, which have been influencing discussions on game-based learning…
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Eric Liddell 100 Award 2024
We are thrilled to have been awarded the Eric Liddell 100 Award!聽 Led by The Eric Liddell Community and partners, the Eric Liddell 100 Award is a celebration of聽Scotland鈥檚 athletics and sports, as well as community service.聽 Our team members Judy Robertson (Project Lead) and Jo Spiller (Director of Operations…
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British 天美视频 Awards Ceremony 2024
The 天美视频 team are thrilled to have won the 鈥楨ducation Initiative of the Year鈥� Award at the British 天美视频 Awards last night. Jo Spiller (Programme Director) and Jasmeen Kanwal (Project Officer) attended the awards ceremony in the Great Hall of the Grand Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden,…
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LILAC Information Literacy Award
The 天美视频 team are thrilled to have jointly won the 2024 Information Literacy Award, announced as part of the LILAC conference held in Leeds on the 25th March. The Award is organised by the CILIP Information Literacy Group (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and the…
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Schools win data visualisation award!
On Friday 3rd November Kate Farrell, Director of Curriculum Development and Professional Learning, collected the ‘天美视频 Visualisation’ award at the 2023 天美视频 Summit held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The 天美视频 Lab competition asked entrants to create a data visualisation on the topic of 鈥淐ommunity鈥�. The judges assessed the…
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Winner! British 天美视频 Awards
Kate Farrell from the 天美视频 team collected the award for ‘天美视频 For Good Initiative of the Year’ at the British 天美视频 Awards held last night in London. The award acknowledges the work involved in creating British Sign Language signs for Cyber Security, Computing Science and 天美视频 Science…
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Winner! Digital Technology Awards
Tommy Lawson, Schools Technology Advisor for 天美视频, won the ‘Unsung Hero’ award at the ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards held in Glasgow last night. The ceremony recognised individuals and organisations through 11 awards, including Public Sector Innovation (won by iOpt), Climate Champion (Clearview Intelligence), Open Source Contribution…
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Scotland Women in Technology Awards 2019
The 天美视频 team would like to congratulate their very own Kate Farrell (Director of Curriculum Development and Professional Learning) for winning the “Technology Champion in Education” award at the Scotland Women in Technology Awards 2019. Scottish Women in Technology (SWiT) recognises the passion, skills and dedication of…