Our Events for the 天美视频 program aims to deliver a wide range of information about data science and digital literacy to teachers. Events will take the form of seminars, live interactive lessons and professional discussions all held online.

Recordings of past events聽 (where available) can be accessed via the event pages below.

Current events

Date: 19/03/2026
Time: 16:00-17:00

AI in Secondary PL Session

Venue: Online (Teams)

In collaboration with Scottish Government and Education Scotland, we have developed a new聽, as well as a set of high quality, cross-curricular resources for teaching with and about AI in Secondary.聽 聽

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Date: 17/03/2026
Time: 16:00-17:00

AI in Primary PL Session

Venue: Online (Teams)

Find out about how to introduce the topic of AI with your Primary learners.聽聽Discover simple, accessible activities that you can use straight away to help young people learn how different AI tools work and think critically about AI use.聽 聽

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Date: 12/03/2026
Time: 12:30-13:30

AI Education for Meaningful Life, Life Together, and Life on the Planet

Venue: in person (Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute) and online (Teams)

We warmly invite you to attend the Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture "AI Education for Meaningful Life, Life Together, and Life on the Planet", hosted聽 by the .

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Date: 03/03/2026
Time: 09:30-15:30

Children, Interaction, and Design Networking Event

Venue: Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 2.55

Are you an educator, policymaker or researcher interested in designing for children?

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Date: 26/02/2026
Time: tbc

AI and Creativity in English

Venue: Online

Save the date for this online professional learning session for Education Scotland鈥檚 Literacy and English Curriculum Network, with Prof Judy Robertson.

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Date: 11/02/2026
Time: 10:00-15:30

Designing EdTech for Equity: A workshop for teachers and education technology developers

Venue: Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3鈥9EF

The University of Oxford and University of Edinburgh are delighted to invite you to an interactive one-day workshop to reflect on the design and use of EdTech in secondary schools.

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Date: 20/11/2025
Time: 16:00-17:30 GMT

Refugees: the data behind the story

Venue: Online

are holding an online interactive session that will help teachers explore issues around refugees and migration, empowering learners with data literacy skills.

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Date: 27/09/2025
Time: 10:00-16:00

Visit us at the Edinburgh Futures Institute Doors Open Day

Venue: Edinburgh Futures Institute, level 0

Visit the 天美视频 stall and play interactive activities on data and AI! We are a UK and Scottish Government funded project within the 天美视频-Driven Innovation initiative, which addresses criticalities in the Scottish education system, particularly challenges in ensuring that inclusive growth is at the basis of Scotland鈥檚 digital futures.

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Date: 16/09/2025
Time: 16:00 - 18:00

Creative AI for teachers workshop

Venue: Dundee Digital Learning Suite, Eastern Primary School, Broughty Ferry, DD5 3AE

Everyone鈥檚 talking about Artificial Intelligence 鈥 but how can YOU get started? How can you use AI in your classroom?

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天美视频 Skills Live: Defend the Rhino

A live lesson saving the rhino with data science.

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How to Defend the Rhino 鈥 PREVIEW 天美视频 Science Live Lesson

Behind the Scenes – an explanation of 天美视频 Skills Live: Defend The Rhino for teachers, schools and computing science students.

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Dive into 天美视频 Science with the new NPA

Find out about delivering the NPA in 天美视频 Science in your school.

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Physical Fitness and the Pandemic: what the data can tell your learners

What data tells us about the importance of physical activity for learners during the pandemic.

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Making sense of coronavirus data with your learners

Making data meaningful in the context of coronavirus.

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Knowledge Sharing Community

Gain new skills & expertise and be part of a community of leaders in Scottish data education knowledge, skills, qualifications and careers.

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天美视频 Skills Live: Defend the Rhino

You鈥檒l use data science skills to analyse CCTV data from across a South African national park. Then create your own machine learning model that recognises images of poachers, and work together to catch them before it鈥檚 too late.

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Tune Into 天美视频!

Music data and data music – tune in to find out more about the ways you can use music and data within the curriculum.

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天美视频 is Beautiful

This event took place on 25th February 2021.

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天美视频 empowerment and advocacy for youth through participatory science communications

We look forward to welcoming Dr Annika Wolff, LUT University,聽on聽24th March, 1-2pm.

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天美视频 Skills Live: 天美视频 Selfie

Use data visualisation software to create an abstract drawing based on data you choose to share.

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Anticipating educational futures through data 鈥 targets, predictions and probabilities

Dr Lyndsay Grant will draw on the ethnography of a secondary school, showing how educational data practices worked to predict, anticipate and intervene in pupils鈥 futures.

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Count and Be Counted: Exploring census and election data in Scotland

This session will look at how to ask questions about your community using existing Scottish census datasets.

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天美视频 Nation

Find out how to use 天美视频 Nation with your learners. has been developed by EDINA, a centre for digital expertise at The University of Edinburgh, and combines official 2011 census data with contemporary and historical mapping.

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天美视频 Skills Live: Defend the Rhino

Save the rhino with data science 天美视频 Skills Live: Defend The Rhino 馃

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天美视频 Skills Live: 天美视频 Selfie

Create your own abstract data-driven selfie Join our data science team to create a data-driven piece of digital art about the person you know best: you.

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Make a splash with data!

Have you ever pondered the pond life in your area, chewed over the challenges of plastic in the oceans, or ruminated on robotics for river cleaning?

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天美视频 Skills Live: Use 天美视频 Science to reduce your school’s carbon footprint

Take part in this interactive data science activity with your class and use real data to investigate how renewable energy could reduce your school鈥檚 carbon footprint.

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