{"id":3324,"date":"2026-08-14T09:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:37:35","slug":"stem-ai-data-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/2026\/08\/14\/stem-ai-data-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM: AI &amp; Data Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Our hugely popular AI and Data Literacy 4-day courses are kicking off again from September, for their fifth and possibly final year!! (We&#8217;re awaiting the decision on our project funding continuing&#8230;cross your fingers for us!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>What previous cohorts have said about the course:<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><i>\u201cI\u2019ll struggle to find more enjoyable, worthwhile and welcoming CPD!\u201d<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><i>&#8220;To ALL teachers (not just for CS teachers!): This is a really engaging and worthwhile course to attend. I learned a lot &#8211; probably the best professional learning course I have been on.&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><i>&#8220;Whether you know anything about data\/AI literacy or not, come on this course and you will be amazed! Your mind will be opened to a new way of engaging your pupils across all areas of the curriculum.&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">As part of our funding conditions,\u00a0<b>we have four places reserved for SBC teachers and\/or senior leaders (two Primary, two Secondary),<\/b>\u00a0so please do take them up or they will be released to other local authorities! This means the course is free to attend (catering included)\u00a0<b>and\u00a0<\/b>we will offer 50% of the cost of getting classroom cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The\u00a0<b>Secondary<\/b>\u00a0course dates are:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Wednesday 16th September 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Thursday 8th October 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Tuesday 3rd November 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Wednesday 2nd December 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>For details and to apply for the Secondary course visit\u00a0<\/b><a title=\"https:\/\/dataschools.education\/ai-and-data-literacy-courses-for-secondary-2026\/\" href=\"https:\/\/dataschools.education\/ai-and-data-literacy-courses-for-secondary-2026\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><b>https:\/\/dataschools.education\/ai-and-data-literacy-courses-for-secondary-2026\/<\/b><\/a><b>. Teachers in all subject areas welcome!<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The\u00a0<b>Primary<\/b>\u00a0course dates are:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Thursday 24th September 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Wednesday 18th November 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Tuesday 26th January 2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Wednesday 17th March 2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>For details and to apply for the Primary course visit\u00a0<\/b><a title=\"https:\/\/dataschools.education\/ai-and-data-literacy-courses-for-primary-2026-2027\/\" href=\"https:\/\/dataschools.education\/ai-and-data-literacy-courses-for-primary-2026-2027\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\"><b>https:\/\/dataschools.education\/ai-and-data-literacy-courses-for-primary-2026-2027\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">All sessions will be in-person and held in the\u00a0<b>Edinburgh Futures Institute, 9am-3pm<\/b>, though arrangements can be made for virtual attendance on a case by case basis, just get in touch.<b>\u00a0As we are kicking off soon, please apply as soon as possible if you&#8217;re interested!<\/b>\u00a0Feel free to reach out to Jasmeen (<a title=\"mailto:jasmeen.kanwal@ed.ac.uk\" href=\"mailto:jasmeen.kanwal@ed.ac.uk\" data-linkindex=\"2\">jasmeen.kanwal@ed.ac.uk<\/a>) if you have any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our hugely popular AI and Data Literacy 4-day courses are kicking off again from September, for their fifth and possibly final year!! (We&#8217;re awaiting the decision on our project funding continuing&#8230;cross your fingers for us!) What previous cohorts have said about the course: \u201cI\u2019ll struggle to find more enjoyable, worthwhile and welcoming CPD!\u201d &#8220;To ALL &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary","category-secondary","category-stem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3325,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/professionallearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}