Insights from Young People and Teachers in Scotland
The Staff College is pleased to announce a new report.
In March 2024, The Staff College and the Association of Directors of Education (ADES) began a year-long creative Action Learning project, ‘Learning Beyond Boundaries’ to explore attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence (AI) within Scottish education with the overarching aim of:
- Stimulating discussion and imagination in Scottish schools on the potential of AI and using it safely and confidently to enhance learning experiences.
- Creating and sharing resources and tools for schools to experiment with and consider approaches to AI related themes.
- Providing a small qualitative research evidence base to support policy discussions (using the critical feedback from the project).
- Reviewing and bringing together other research and resources into an open source website resource.
The project has been led by Horizons Research on behalf of The Staff College and overseen by a Project Steering Group. Since the start there has been a particular emphasis on the creative engagement with young people and teachers themselves which has informed the workshops and discussions.
This paper presents the findings from the first two phases of the project, which involved workshop engagement with over 200 young people, more than 100 teachers across Scottish schools and 211 responses to our AI in Scottish education survey.
Additional resources and materials relating to this project can be found at the Learning Beyond Boundaries project website.