For Summer 2022, TeachNet are offering seven EPV day approved online courses. starting at only €20 each. All courses are fully online and can be completed anytime between July 4th and August 19th, 2022. We have been delivering quality online CPD since 2008 and our courses are designed and developed “by teachers for teachers” and […]
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Those of you who attended the 2020 CESI conference might have heard Darren Ralston and I present as former Albemarle County Instructional and Ed Tech coaches. You might have thought that the concept of educational coaching in Ireland was a bit ahead of its time but some recent movements by the major tech companies and the pandemic
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For Summer 2022, TeachNet in association with Microsoft Education Ireland, are delivering 5 blended courses (Face-to-face & online), 3 Minecraft for Education and 2 Dream Space STEM in the Primary Classroom Join the Dream Space team for two days in Microsoft Dream Space (One Microsoft Place, Leopardstown, Dublin) to take part in hands-on, curricular focused
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Introducing Loom Loom is a handy piece of screen casting software that can be use from the Chrome browser, from the desktop and on your mobile device. It will record your screen and camera. You can capture content in any application on any device. Before you even think about sharing, you can edit the recording
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Irish Schools have met many challenges over the last number of years. Just when we are exiting the crisis caused by Covid another fresh challenge has presented itself with the large influx of children from the Ukraine as a result of the current war there. By the middle of May 2022 over 6000 children from
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“Sir, I don’t remember learning this. It was a long time ago!” “I’m trying to cram for these exams but it is a lot of information to remember….” These are just some of the statements that I hear from students in April/May of each year as the final preparations set in for their Junior and
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This week my students and I had really interesting discussions about the role of social media (and the internet in general) in providing platforms for those individuals who wish to ‘cancel’ others. We discussed what the term meant and whether it was in fact nothing more than a ‘new’ way to enforce ‘political correctness’. We
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The Department of Education launched their new Digital Strategy for Schools to 2027 on April 13th, just in time for the Easter education conferences. The strategy was developed after a comprehensive consultation process where the Department gathered the views of a wide range of stakeholders, including children and young people. Minister @NormaFoleyTD1 publishes Digital Strategy
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Adding gaming elements to adult education is as valuable for adults as for younger learners.
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We are approaching the end of the school year, which spells a busy few months for teachers and school leaders. Standardised tests, school tours, end of year reports and planning for next year will leave us all longing for the summer holidays. In this blog post, I am going to look at how you could
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