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Illustrated cover of the FIRST LEGO League Explore: BIOGLOW Teacher Guide for Ireland, featuring a colourful woodland and pond scene with plants and wildlife

Beyond the Robot: FIRST LEGO League from a Teacher’s Perspective

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The benefits, challenges and lessons learned from bringing FIRST LEGO League into the primary classroom. With the launch of the new FIRST LEGO League (FLL) season at Dublin City University today, schools across Ireland are preparing for another year of creativity, problem-solving and innovation. Having experienced FLL in my own classroom, I wanted to share

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Copilot Notebooks: A New AI Workspace for Teachers

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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock these past few years, you’ll have already noticed the growing omnipresence of AI-powered tools in both Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Take NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebooks) for instance, a hugely powerful and immensely popular tool with Irish teachers, particularly in Workspace schools. And whilst Copilot Notebooks, a similar

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Using NotebookLM to Get to Grips with New Specifications

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Schools are busy places. Really busy. Between teaching, planning, assessment, meetings, emails, supervision, initiatives, policies, circulars, updated guidelines and everything else that happens in a school week, it can feel almost impossible to find the time and headspace to sit down and properly read a new specification from start to finish. And yet, as teachers,

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Planning Your AI Journey? What’s New in Microsoft’s AI Toolkit

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Microsoft has just given its Education AI Toolkit a timely refresh, and it’s well worth exploring in more detail particularly if you are still trying to get your head around Generative AI and how it fits in your classroom and school. You’re hearing all the noise, time saving, liberating, transformational, the whole nine yards but

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Using Search Progress in Microsoft Teams to Support Leaving Cert AAC Research

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With the introduction of revised Leaving Certificate specifications, Chemistry students are increasingly required to demonstrate research skills through Additional Assessment Components (AACs). One digital tool that has proven particularly effective in supporting this process is the Search Progress learning accelerator within Assignments in Microsoft Teams. In my Leaving Cert Chemistry classes, I have used Search

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