On February 28th and March 1st of this year the Computers in Education Society of Ireland will hold its annual conference in Galway. The theme for this year’s conference is Spark the Imagination. The CESI conference is a calendar highlight for those who are interested in integrating technology into their teaching and learning. Last year’s conference marked […]
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Learning to code is a popular topic in educational circles these days and rightly so I think. When young people code their own apps, games, stories, or websites they have a chance to think critically, troubleshoot, problem solve, and collaborate. It’s a way to create something real that can be seen and used
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The Learning Revolution Project, an online global network for educators, founded by Steve Hargadon, has recently announced that they will reboot the “Host Your Own Webinar” initiative. Steve is a true pioneer of 21st century learning and is dedicated to empowering educators and students as they reimagine the classroom and their place in it. He
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Having returned from my annual pilgrimage to the BETT Show I was asked by numerous people to share my BETT highlight. The show was dominated this year by a wide array of tablet devices, computer programming resources, data analytics and much more besides. Though it has moved down to the Excel arena it continues to
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[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/84669555[/vimeo] Safer Internet Day (SID) is a global campaign that promotes a healthy Internet for everyone. It will be celebrated on Tuesday 11th February 2014. This international annual event takes place every February to promote safe and responsible use of the internet and mobile phone technologies, especially amongst children and young people. Safer Internet Day is organised
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Before I trained to be a teacher, there was a huge shortage of qualified teachers in Ireland; so much so that when I finished my science degree in 2001, just in time for the dot com bubble to burst, I was able to get a teaching position in a school in Tallaght in Dublin. By
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We have been using Skype in our school for video conferences between classes in our own school and classes in partner classes in two Comenius projects that we have engaged in with other European schools. In the early days we found that the technology wasn’t at all as reliable as it is today, connections often failed,
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ChronoZoom is another great free educational tool from Microsoft Research. It is an open source timeline tool that allows teachers and students to create interactive timelines.It is an online tool and opens directly into the Cosmos timeline. As the user zooms inwards. we pass through Earth, Life, Prehistory and Humanity segments. Within ChronoZoom, these segments
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As I settled into completing my plans for SESE for 2014 the gale force winds and rain hammered the windows of the house. The rain and the flooding got me to thinking of the floods surrounding our school in Harolds Cross, Dublin in 2011. I was wondering how I would acquire enough maps for the
Visitors to this blog will already have read some of the many posts from teachers about the power of Twitter for educational purposes (for instance, see here, here and here – and others can be found using the blog ‘search’ facility). Having set up a Twitter account and started to follow many users on Twitter,