Earlier this year, a new start-up emerged with the lofty ambition of attempting to increase the internet’s educational prowess: Pindex, which describes itself as “a Pinterest for education.” Borne out of a frustration with the gloomy, dreary material his daughter was bringing home from school, John Leaver, along with his four-person team, has created a […]
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Yesterday, Denmark was dubbed the best country in the EU for ‘digital performance’. For the second year running, the European Commission’s annual report on digital services in Europe, the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), put Denmark at the top of the pile. In this report, the Danes were praised for being “the most advanced in the
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It was around this time last year when I kindly treated myself to an iPad Air 2 and spent the subsequent months engaging in the activities of a typical, casual tablet user: browsing, listening to music and podcasts, spending too much time on social media, performing some menial word processing tasks and so on. However,
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The International E-STEP conference took place in Athens on November 7th. It was hosted by the 8th International Conference in Open and Distance Learning 2015, “Innovation and Research in Open & Distance Learning and in Information Communications Technology.” Over the last couple of years, the E-STEP project set about helping teachers and school leaders acquire and reinforce
TeachNet is currently enrolling for it’s Spring Course Programme with four online courses. All our courses are designed to help both primary and second-level teachers get the most out of technology in their classrooms, including our latest course to focus specifically on tablet computing and mobile learning entitled “Enhancing Literacy and Numeracy with the iPad
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The NCCA ICT Framework In this podcast host Clifford Brown is joined by Sarah Fitzpatrick, Deputy CEO of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) and Michael Hallissy, Director of Learning at the Digital Hub Development Agency (DHDA), to discuss the NCCA ICT Framework. The NCCA ICT Framework is an invaluable tool that assists
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Global Tools for Education Technology Leaders Learn about the resources, leadership initiatives and tools that CoSN, the nonprofit U.S. technology association, has developed for education leaders,both those in charge of technology, as well as those in charge of education. Hear the results from a new CoSN survey which found that school district administrators understand the
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In this podcast host Clifford Brown is joined by Deirdre Dennehy and Ian Roller from Dublin Inner City Schools Computerisation (DISC) to discuss the project. Operating since 1998, DISC’ aims to achieve equality of access, opportunity and training of Information and Communication Technology across inner-city disadvantaged schools. DISC is part of the Community Links Programme
Welcome to TeachNet’s first International Perspectives podcast. Our first guest is Garry Putland, General Manager Business Development with Australia’s Education.au. Education.au is Australia’s leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) agency for educators and delivers a range of web services to clients in the higher education, schools’ education and vocational education and training sectors. Garry is
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By Teachers for Teachers’ To highlight some of the many interesting projects published this year with the support of TeachNet grants, this podcast focuses on four projects. Host Clifford Brown is joined by primary teachers Ciarán Gray and Sinéad Grimes, and second level teachers Martina Hearne and Dan O’Sullivan to discuss their respective work. Projects
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