Level Up Your Skills This Summer with Dream Space & TeachNet

Get ready to unleash your students’ curiosity, embrace computational thinking, and embark on game-based learning adventures. Join the Dream Space team as they delve into three innovative blended courses that will empower you to create engaging and effective learning environments. STEM Starters – Igniting Curiosity in Young Learners is specifically designed for teachers working with […]

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May 8 2023

Using Canva for Assessment

By Lydia Burke

I was inspired to use more Canva in my lessons after attending the BETT convention last month. Their displays alone just looked like so much fun, I wanted to bring that home to my classroom! My only experience of Canva was using it as a tool for teachers to create resources to deliver content to

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Mar 6 2023

One to One Devices in the Classroom

By Lydia Burke

As someone who has experience teaching in a school with one to one devices, I am frequently asked about the pros and cons of using digital devices in the classroom. Most commonly; are they a distraction? How do they benefit the students? Are they really enhancing the teaching and learning? Keeping Focussed To start, everything

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Jan 30 2023

One Note: Useful tools for Students

By Lydia Burke

I have previously outlined the benefits of One Note to enhance teaching and learning from the teachers point of view, but what functions can truly benefit our students learning? Here are a couple of ways One Note can be used by students to enhance their learning & make it accessible to all learners: Immersive Reader

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After presentation: a)engaging presentation, learner can't remember details, b) boring presentation, the learner has all the details needed.

Dec 12 2022

Death by PowerPoint. Guilty? You are not alone!

By Frances O'Donnell

Is this the reason why educators fall into the death-by-presentation trap? Is this a workable solution to try?

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Dec 8 2022

Teams – What’s New for Twenty-Two

By Pat Brennan

A year back I posted Microsoft Teams – Your Ever-evolving Digital Classroom which charted, what I thought were the most useful updates to MS Teams for students and teachers over the previous 12 months and with 2023 fast approaching, I’m going to revisit Microsoft’s ubiquitous digital learning hub to run the rule over the new

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Nov 24 2022

MakeCode Arcade: Using Coding to Encourage Creativity, Collaboration & Problem-Solving in Wellbeing

By Lydia Burke

I have recently started teaching coding as part of the wellbeing curriculum in my school. You might think; what has coding got to do with a student’s wellbeing? It turns out, quite a lot! Collaboration & Problem-Solving Firstly; wellbeing focusses on the junior cycle key skill of staying well. It is outlined in the wellbeing

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Nov 7 2022

SDGs and digital storytelling

By Frances O'Donnell

Cop27 – are we aware of the need for urgency? As educators in a digitally connected world, what can we do to play our part?

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Oct 17 2022

Microsoft One Note

By Lydia Burke

Microsoft One Note has become one of my favourite classroom tools, from the simple tasks of not needing to run to the office for new whiteboard markers to the difficult tasks of differentiating a lesson and here’s why: OneNote for windows 10 at first glance: One Note lends itself to the classroom in many ways;

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Oct 13 2022

Guess Who’s (Well more what’s) Back?

By Pat Brennan

Those of you who are long time followers of the TeachNet Learning blog may recall in the early years, our Learning Podcast Series, where we regularly spoke with educators at home and abroad about the big-ticket items (and issues) of the time in the world of ICTs in Education. The graphic (Of its time) below

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