In this podcast host Clifford Brown is joined by Brian Daly, second-level teacher at Adamstown Community College, Simon Lewis, Principal of Carlow Educate Together NS and Sam Lyons of Cloudiscope, to discuss Cloud Computing and its relevance to education. During this discussion our panel tries to demystify the whole notion of the cloud, identify some […]
We have been involved recently in a number of teacher CPD projects in which we have introduced the UNESCO ICT Competency Standards for Teachers (ICT-CST). We believe these to be an important step forward in teacher education in the area of ICT. In an effort to help educational policy-makers and curriculum developers identify the skills
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I have been travelling around the country and asking principals about the ICTresources they have in their schools. I am surprised at the lack of some basic technology I consider essential for every classroom. While schools are very keen to purchase interactive whiteboards few have considered more humble technologies. Most schools have a digital camera
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On Friday March 5th the US Department of Education released a draft of the National Educational Technology Plan: “Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology.” Launching the document the US Secretary of State Arne Duncan said that it “was prepared for the Office of Educational Technology by leading researchers and practitioners. It represents their best
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In this latest podcast, Michael Hallissy speaks with Robert O’Leary, Principal of Sacred Heart SNS, Killinarden. Since the nineties Robbie has been at the forefront of ICT integration in Ireland, writing and lecturing extensively on the subject and also developing a range of educational digital content. A long time advocate of the importance of relevant
On Sunday morning last, those of you who tweet might have noticed a new hashtag appear with prominence in the twittersphere: #savewordle. Wordle, an online application (available at http://www.wordle.net) for generating ‘word clouds’, had been taken down and the founder, Jonathan Feinberg, had used the homepage of the site to appeal for “pro bono legal
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I am currently attending the Consortiuum of School Networking Conference (CoSN) in Washington DC and had the pleasure this morning to attend an excellent session on the future of “long-term embedded teacher professional development”. The session was led by Will Richardson and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach who described a world where teachers build their own learning networks.
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In this latest podcast in our International Perspectives series, Michael Hallissy speaks with Sara Hennessy of Cambridge University. Sara works in the education faculty at Cambridge as a Lecturer in Teacher Development and Pedagogical Innovation, and has conducted much research into the use of IWBs in UK classrooms, particularly how children can use IWBs. Sara
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Below is an extract from my article “Head in the Clouds” which won the most influential blog post of 2009 in the Edublog Awards. The full article can be seen here. Over the last couple of years, the term “Cloud Computing” has been buzzing around in the techie world. Inevitably, it buzzes into the education
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Craig Barrett, the former chairman of Intel Corporation, was in Ireland last week and spoke at an event in the Royal Irish Academy. On Saturday morning, February 13th 2010, he shared his views with John Kenny on the Marianne Finucane Show (click to download the interview) in relation to the need for Ireland to create
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