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Rethinking Teacher Professional Development for the 21st Century

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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Craig Barrett’s views on Ireland’s need to create a world class education system

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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CESI Conference 2010: “Creative Technology for Challenging Times”

This year, the CESI Annual Conference will take place on Friday February 5th and Saturday February 6th in Portlaoise. The CESI conference has always been highly regarded for showcasing exciting and innovative technologies for teaching and learning, presented in practical and ‘real-life’ terms (many of the presentations are made by practicing teachers). This year’s conference

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Windows 7

​Wanting to be a head of the posse, I decided two years ago to purchase Vista on my new Asus Tablet.  I basically struggled along for over a year and a half with a laptop that I now know was only half performing. On more than a few occasions almost found itself chucked out the

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