Category Archives: News & Updates

Digital Visits 24/25

Following on from “Planning your school’s digital strategy” professional learning sessions and a survey about sharing practice, we visited 8 schools this year. The purpose was to discuss the next steps in planning their digital strategy and/or a change they had made to their digital practice which had impacted positively on learners.
In some, we had a discussion and provided them further documentation that would support them. In others, we discussed the impact and produced a report. Below I have attached some useful documents along with the reports. You can read these reports for yourself and hopefully it will help you to be inspired.
Report Visits
Useful Documents

Free AI Teaching Resources for Primary Schools in Scotland

Please see information from the Scottish AI Alliance (SAIA):

‘Free AI Teaching Resources for Primary Schools in Scotland

Children’s ParliamentScottish AI Alliance, and The Alan Turing Institute are delighted to announce the launch of a comprehensive teaching pack to support teachers to educate primary school pupils (P5-7) about Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This teaching pack includes 6 lesson plans with clear learning objectives for children in P5 to P7 including:

  • Easy-to-follow and ready to use lesson plans on understanding and exploring AI in relation to children’s lived experience and their human rights
  • Real-life scenarios to explore fairness, safety and privacy
  • Animated explainer videos created by children for children
  • Tools for critical thinking, discussion and creativity

These resources can be used in a single lesson or across a whole term. No AI knowledge? No problem! Each pack includes step-by-step guidance to help you explore AI concepts with your pupils in fun and accessible ways.

Let’s give our pupils the tools to understand and shape the future of AI here:

Children’s Rights & AI: Teaching Pack — Scottish AI Alliance

Two lovely videos made by the Children’s Parliament here:

What is AI? – AI explained for and by children! (part 1) – YouTube

How Does AI use Data? – AI explained for and by children! (part 2) – YouTube