Paul Munroe

I was recently asked to help prepare some students for the Credit Union Inter School Quiz competition. One of the children on the team was given the job of learning all the major world capitals. No easy task but one he told me he could achieve in one week using Memrise. I hadn’t heard of it […]

We have just celebrated EU Code Week with many events taking place in schools across the country. Our own school organised local firms in Galway to come and talk to the children and complete coding workshops with our senior classes. We have also started a Friday Scratch club for interested children which we intend to run throughout

We are quickly becoming a hyper-connected society, and this trend for having technology at our fingertips is starting at a younger age than ever before. Smartphone ownership among children aged 5–15 is now at 50%, and adults are even more connected: 75% of UK adults own a smartphone, rising to 90% of 16–24-year-olds, while 70% of

Digital workspaces shared by teachers and students are becoming popular, particularly in secondary and third level and Microsoft is trying to carve out its own place in an increasingly competitive market. In the last week, Microsoft announced a new platform for education — Microsoft Classroom. Having joined together tools from Office 365 and a series

The internet may make homework a breeze for youngsters, but many parents worry their children may stumble across something inappropriate when searching online. In a bid to solve this problem, a new search engine for children has launched called Kiddle. Featuring Google’s famous colors in its logo, Kiddle swaps the plain white background found on the

If you work with 20 iPads  in a classroom, then you already know that sharing large  files between iPads or between iPads and computers comes with some friction and bother. Sure, there are many ways to transfer content from a student’s iPad to your computer or vice-versa, or from a student’s iPad to another student’s iPad.  (AirDrop, Dropbox, Instashare, PhotoTransfer

We recently purchased 15 Ipads for our school. Being a PC/Android person all my life I was not overly familiar with how teachers might display or mirror what they are doing on the Ipad device to the classroom projector. After a little bit of research I discovered that there are multiple options available. This post

MathGames.com   provides 1200 different ways to practice maths for students aged  five to fourteen. It works on smartphones, tablets, desktops and in the last 12 months 4500 new schools have started using MathGames.com in their classrooms, reaching over 600,000 students worldwide. All of the content on the website is 100% free, no login needed! The

In the junior classes we are continuously working towards getting the children to become fluent readers. There are so many different ways to help promote fluency in the classroom and one of my newest and most favourite ways is using audioBoom. AudioBoom is a free platform that allows anyone to record and share podcasts.  In

“Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I understand”. Studies show that involving students actively in a topic improves their learning standard. One of the best ways to really involve students in a lesson is inquiry-based learning. Inquiry-based learning describes approaches to learning that are based on the investigation