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This year we celebrated five years of the voluntary support and advocacy website Giftedkids.ie. When we began there was little discussion, understanding or crucially teacher training around the issues confronting these students with a high potential for learning. Despite this cohort being identified as having special educational needs in the 1998 Education Act, little had been […]

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Nov 25 2013

So what tablet should I buy?

By Michael Hallissy

This is the question schools typically ask when they are considering investing in tablet devices for their schools. However, all too often this is not the right question to start with. A recent report (PDF) commissioned by the Association of Community and Comprehensive Schools (ACCS) and compiled by H2 Learning recommends that schools consider why

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Nov 20 2013

ShowMe – A Dynamic Teaching Tool

By Joanne Gilmartin

Create beautiful tutorials with the tap of your finger. The ShowMe application is a dynamic presentation and creation application available on both iPad and Android tablets. ShowMe provides an iPad app and a web-based interface for accessing the ShowMe database as well as your own presentations. It is a free download from Android and App

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Nov 18 2013

BitStrips in Education

By Simon Lewis

The latest fad, according to my Facebook timeline, seems to be Bitstrips, an app for Android, iOS and Windows devices. The premise of Bitstrips is that you can make a comic strip and add yourself and your friends to the story. My sister is addicted to it and everyday she posts up something that’s she

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Nov 14 2013

Vocabulary Spelling City

By John O' Mahony

Over the last number of years we have been working at improving different aspects of literacy in our school. In the area of writing, we have used First Steps Writing, in reading we have adopted First Steps Reading and have purchased subscriptions to Reading Eggspress for pupils in fourth to sixth class. To assist us

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Nov 11 2013

Mission V

By Kieran Kelly

My class have been given a great opportunity to participate in the re-launched Mission V project. Mission V was previously run during the 2011-2012 school year. Mission V provides the opportunity for primary pupils to learn through a game based environment. The pupils will be empowered to learn programming skills in a highly creative environment.

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Nov 7 2013

Teachers Pay Teachers

By Maria Purcell

Teachers Pay Teachers As teachers we rely heavily on the support, guidance and resources we receive from other teachers on a day to day basis. This used to be limited to the immediate school community to which we belonged, as teachers shared ideas and suggestions in the staff rooms. However with the explosion of the

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Nov 2 2013

Exploring some cool Web 2.0 tools

By John Rust

According to Wikipedia the term Web 2.0 was coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999 and it was popularised by Tim O’Reilly at a conference in 2004. Teachers use Web 2.0 tools to engage pupils, to share their work with their peers and to present pupil work to a global audience. To a certain extent, Web

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Oct 21 2013

Learning doesn’t stop when school finishes

By Michael Hallissy

Recently the OECD published their OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) results. A key product of the PIACC was the Survey of Adult Skills and it was designed to provide insights into the availability of some of the key skills in society and how they are used at work and at

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Oct 18 2013

What is a MOOC?

By Michael Hallissy

I have just enrolled in a MOOC in the past week and I am excited about engaging with the content and the learners on the course. I hear you ask what is a MOOC? Well a MOOC is short for a Massive Open Online Course and they are now becoming very common ways for people

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