Our Digital Youth Work Lead, Hilary Phillips, will be speaking at Holyrood Insight’s AI in Schools and Colleges Scotland Conference on 17 June 2026, focusing on ensuring that children and young people’s perspectives are central to AI strategy and implementation.
We are pleased to share that our Digital Youth Work Lead, Hilary Phillips, will be speaking at Holyrood Insight’s AI in Schools and Colleges Scotland Conference in Edinburgh on Wednesday 17th June 2026. Her contribution comes at a pivotal moment, as Scotland begins implementing the newly published Guidelines and Guardrails for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Schools.
The event will bring together educators, policymakers, researchers, and digital specialists to examine how AI can be embedded safely, ethically, and effectively across learning, teaching, and assessment. With updates on curriculum developments and insights into AI literacy and assessment policy, the conference aims to equip schools and colleges with the knowledge and resources needed to navigate rapid technological change.
Hilary’s session will focus on ensuring that children and young people’s perspectives are central to AI strategy and implementation. Drawing on youth‑led research and our new AI toolkit, she will explore what young people are telling us about AI: what excites them, what worries them, and how they want decisions about AI in education to be made.
From practical classroom applications to safeguarding, fairness and AI literacy, the full-day conference will explore what responsible adoption looks like in a Scottish context. Sessions will unpack how AI can support high‑quality teaching, reduce workload, enhance inclusion for ASN learners, and uphold children’s rights as schools navigate new expectations.
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