Children are engaging with the digital world from an increasingly young age. They are learning, communicating, gaming, creating and sharing online every day. As pupils approach the transition to post-primary school, developing the knowledge, skills and confidence to navigate this world safely and responsibly is more important than ever. Switched On, a new digital citizenship
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A child leaving 6th Class this year began primary school in a very different world. During their eight years in school, technology has changed rapidly, artificial intelligence has become part of everyday life, and new careers have emerged that would have been difficult to imagine when they first entered Junior Infants. We cannot know exactly
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Wait, it cannot be September already? As I perused the pre-summer blog posts to check what my previous blog post entry was, I realised there was quite a run of AI posts in a row, so I decided to go to one of my favourite topics: podcasts. The summer tends to see me increase the
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Tick tock! As we roll into August, there are now just three weeks remaining to complete your EPV day approved professional learning this summer, with all courses closing at 5:00pm on 21 August 2026. TeachNet is currently enrolling participants on 11 fully online courses, designed to support practical, classroom-ready teaching across STEM, digital technologies, inclusion,
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With July 1st fast approaching, now’s the time to plan your summer learning. TeachNet is offering 13 fully online courses, all EPV‑approved and designed to support practical, classroom-ready teaching across STEM, digital technologies, inclusion, and AI-supported practice.Time-limited special offerTo mark the fast-approaching summer course season, we’re reprising our April launch offer with a time-limited enrolment
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Competency-based Education Recently I had had the pleasure of hosting a delegation from Bulgaria who are about to introduce competency-based education into their education system. During their visit we met with multiple experts in the field of competency based education and discussed how the Irish school system has gone on this journey. The National Council
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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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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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Recently, ISTE + ASCD partnered with the Google for Education team to release the Google AI Educator Series, which is a completely free on-demand training programme leading to a Google badge. The series is built around 15-minute sessions and class-based use cases. The focus is on Google AI tools such as Gemini for Education and
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TeachNet is once again delighted to provide a comprehensive suite of fully online, EPV-approved summer courses for the summer 2026 season. Among this year’s offerings are updated digital technology courses to reflect the growing use of GenAI in society and education. Google Gemini and Microsoft CoPilot TeachNet is once again delighted to offer our staple
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