The new Obama administration has promised a package of €142 billion for education and €1 billion has been earmarked for ICT. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan plan promises to enable students of all ages to learn in 21st-century classrooms, labs, and libraries to help US students compete with any worker in the world. Time […]
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This podcast discusses some of the issues around creating a good TeachNet project. TeachNet team members Michael Hallissy and Pat Brennan describe what kinds of resources TeachNet is seeking to publish. Huw Roberts, a second-level teacher of Geography and ICT, describes his experience of being involved in TeachNet to date and encourages teachers to get
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A recent posting to the DICTaT mailing list concerning an ICT grant for 72 Primary Schools hasn’t really generated any great debate. Perhaps it’s because most contributors are only settling back into school and haven’t had time to reflect on this posting! However I wonder is it part of a growing sense of despair or
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Welcome to the first episode of a new series of Podcasts from TeachNet Ireland. In this episode, the panel will explore some of the following questions… What is TeachNet is the TeachNet project about? How has the project evolved over the past 7 years? Who are we trying to reach? Where is the project going
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives website is hosted by Utah State University. It has up to 100 virtual manipulatives, mainly java based, that are categorized by grade level and mathematics topics. The mathematics topics categories include Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement and Data Analysis and Probability. These categories are closely related to the
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With the mobile phone now at saturation point in society how are we as educators addressing the potential these devices have for new digital learning opportunities? It is common for school authorities to place a ban of mobile phones in school and this policy is generally based on what is perceived as the potential for
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The BETT Show takes place in London between January 14th and 17th. BETT is celebrating 25 years of existence this year and is a must visit for anyone who is interested in learning about how ICT is being integrated into teaching, learning and assessment. Many first timers find the show daunting and it is as
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Have you ever sat back and thought about your own teaching perspective? There is currently a move within education, predominantly in Europe and North America, towards a more constructivist view of learning and teaching. I must confess that I am a fan of this particular perspective of teaching but reading a recent article, Good Teaching:
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From the front line:- so there we were, a collaborative, fully interactive sesion underway using Paint Shop Pro on the Interactive White Board. Layers, transparencies, free hand selections; the class is ploughing through the work – creativity is flowing as we designed a Doodle 4 Google!!!Next pupil to the laptop and IWB pen suggested we
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now many options for using online maps in the classroom. The most useful online maps are: maps.live.com maps.google.com earth.google.com maps.yahoo.com Each have their own good and weak points. Added to these, there is a growing range of tools which you can use to add to your online map use. You can annotate Google Maps with
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