Are you a teacher who is interested in data science education for key stage 5 (age 16 to 18)? Then we invite you to join our free, in-person workshop exploring the topic, taking place in Cambridge, UK on 10 July 2025.

You will be among the very first educators to see some of our first test activities for teacher training to build data science concepts, and your contributions will feed into our future work. Sign up by 20 June to take part.

Data science: What do we need to teach school-age learners?

Current artificial intelligence (AI) methods, especially machine learning (ML), rely heavily on data. While young people learn mathematics, and some statistics, at school, data science concepts are not commonly taught.

To complement our work on AI literacy, we have been investigating what data science teaching resources and education research are currently available.

Our goals for this work are:

1. To figure out what data science concepts may need to be taught in schools, initially with a focus on key stage 5
2. To develop related teacher professional development and classroom resources

Join us to discuss data science education

If you are interested in data science education for young people, and maybe even have experience of teaching it to learners aged 16 to 18 in your school (in any subject, including computer science, social sciences, mathematics, statistics, and ethics), please join our free workshop on Thursday 10 July in our office in Cambridge. We are able to reimburse some travel expenses.

At the workshop:

• We would love to hear about your experience of teaching any elements of data science
• We will share some exploratory concept building activities with you and discuss them together

You’ll be the first group of working teachers we will share these activities with — your feedback will be invaluable, and you’ll have the chance to shape our work going forward.

If you are interested, please fill in this form by Friday 20 June:

You will then receive more information from us by 27 June. Spaces in the workshop are limited, so please do not book any travel until we confirm your space.

We’re looking forward to shaping the future of data science education with you.

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PS In our current seminar series, researchers from around the world are presenting their latest work on teaching about AI and data science. You can catch up on past sessions and sign up for upcoming ones on our website.