Over the last few years we have moved from Windows XP to using Windows 7 throughout the school on desktop and laptop computers. This move was very smooth on the whole and the vast majority of the wide range of applications that teachers and pupils use throughout the school migrated from XP to Windows […]
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In many primary schools around the country there are Green School Committees and Active School Committees that are made up of elected members from each class as well as one or two teachers. Some schools nominate members; some schools have committee volunteers and some hold elections to fill the committee places. For both of these
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Back in May of 2007 the first beta copy of Scratch, a programming language for children, was released. Scratch was a free application developed by MIT Media Labs and it was easier to use when compared to more traditional programming languages as it consisted of graphical blocks that could be dragged from a palette and
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Some takeaways for Primary and Post-Primary Dispelling Myths Last week, the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education published its extended roadmap – A Roadmap for Enhancement in a Digital World 2015-2017 – which aims at building digital capacity in Irish higher education. This is a comprehensive document that places
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Office 365 for Education is providing schools with free email service for staff and students on their own school web addresses. Additionally staff and students will avail of free file storage which can substantially reduce costs and responsibilities on the school IT systems, a secure web space to facilitate staff sharing and collaboration, and a
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This year’s Maths Counts conference will be taking place at University College Dublin on Friday the 17th and Saturday the 18th of April. A wide range of practical presentations will be offered by teachers from Who is the best penalty scorer? (Equivalent fractions to the rescue) to Walking the talk : Generating and
Google has recently announced Education on Air which is a free on-line conference about leading for the future and shaping today’s classrooms. This event which will take place on May 8th -9th is open to anyone with an interest in education: teachers, administrators, students, parents, school leaders… Education on Air is hosted on-line so you can join
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Much of the initial argument to introduce 1-to-1 digital learning devices in schools hinged on the imperative to address physically demanding weight of students’ schoolbags.Now however management and teachers are tasked with advancing these devices beyond e-readers. Here lies a bone of contention; devices were opted for without proper consideration, training, and planning regarding their
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2011 saw the inaugural iGBL conference led by Dr. Patrick Felicia in Waterford Institute of Technology. Five years on and the Symposium is going from strength to strength with a two day event based at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT) in Dun Laoghaire on Thursday 4th June & Friday 5th June 2015.
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It is just about 17 months (back in September 2013} since I wrote about a Microsoft offer to Education whereby Microsoft were offering 32 Gb versions of their original Surface RT 10 inch tablets to their educational institution customers at a discounted price of just under €200. At the time I considered that they represented good value for
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