As a Digital Learning Coordinator, one of my ongoing challenges has been managing iPads effectively — especially when it comes to storage and system updates. Over time, devices fill up with photos, apps and student files, and before long, updates fail to install automatically through the MDM. That usually means manual resets, wasted time and […]
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The new Teach section in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams EDU isn’t just another shiny GenAI tool, it’s a practical, dedicated teacher space packed with powerful features for creating classroom materials like lesson plans, rubrics, and study aids, all in one place. Teach brings a growing toolkit of AI-powered features that let you And the
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This is a very short blog – but an important one relating to digital learning. With many AI-generated resources and educational applications on the market, it can become overwhelming to keep up with them all! But, this blog goes back to basics – something I (and many other teachers) have been using for years to
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In this ‘Brave New (AI-powered) World’ we now inhabit it’s impossible to drown out the ever increasing hyperbole depicting GenAI as the ultimate panacea for ever conceivable woe. As each new iteration of ChatGPT (Or whatever chatbot, you’re having yourself) arrives, accompanied by fanfare and we hear catchphrases like, ‘Digital Transformation’, ‘Future Skills’ and ‘New
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What could we apply in schools? Background On September 30th the Irish Department of Education and Youth published 3 working papers from the OECD and the Knowledge Centre for Education, based in the University of Stavanger in Norway, on the Impact of Digital Technologies on Students’ Learning. The Department commissioned the OECD to carry out
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If your school is like most in Ireland, you’ve probably got a significant number of computers still running Windows 10. and probably with very few issues as the OS has been a reliable workhorse for years at the chalkface so the adage of ‘If it’s not broken, don’t fix it’, would seemingly apply here in
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When I first became a Digital Learning Coordinator, I thought the role would be all about devices, apps and keeping up with the latest technology. The reality turned out to be very different. Much of the work wasn’t about the shiny tools at all — it was about people, planning and building systems that actually
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The Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) held their annual conference in Marino Institute of Education. The conference was entitled, The Making of Authentic Teachers in Ages of Artificiality?, and it had a dedicated strand of papers on the theme of Teaching, Learning and Artificial Intelligence. I attended many of these papers and regularly
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This week, ISTELive (International Society for Technology in Education Conference) takes place in San Antonio, Texas, for the first time since 2017. I was there for ISTELive17 and also got to go to Denver last year for my second ISTELive. I’ll share a short exposé of the largest edtech event in the world from my
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Elementari is a website for creating and publishing simple interactive and animated digital stories. The story creator, which looks and feels like any presentation or slideshow tool, fuses digital storytelling with important elements of coding and computational thinking. Students create a series of slides featuring text, images, illustrations, sound (including music and voice-over), and code blocks
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