This year our fourth class pupils displayed their science project on pulley systems at the RDS Primary Science Fair. The Primary Science Fair is run alongside the secondary school Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2013 in the RDS every January and is a great opportunity for the pupils to display their work and be inspired […]
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The “Make Coding Compulsory in Schools” debate has been simmering gently over the last year both in Ireland and the UK as we move towards a new definition of digital literacy. No longer is it enough that users simply “use” technology effectively, the new digital literacy calls for users to become developers of their own
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Microsoft AutoCollage is another free tool available to teachers in Irish primary and post-primary schools. It was developed by Microsoft Research in Cambridge. It can compile a number of images into one collage using face detection and object recognition before blending images together in a seamless method. Possible uses of AutoCollage in a school setting
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As part of my professional development courses for teachers in secondary schools I put together a list of useful web resources. I thought it would be good to share this list with you. I hope you find some gems here and if you have others of note perhaps you would be kind enough to add
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There is a fantastic new application from Transport Ireland called Journey Planner. There are free iPhone, Android and web based applications. I am using the web based application to teach the pupils about transport and travel. The curricular topics covered are Numeracy, Literacy, Geography, Science and SPHE. For numeracy we discussed timetables, calendars, distances travelled
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As you may know the Department of Edcucation launched the Active School Flag in 2009 to promote physical activity within schools and their communities. There are a number of steps that primary or secondary schools have to follow to recieve the flag and these can be found on their website. At the moment my own
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Last year Damien Mulley announced that he was ending the Irish Blog Awards just in time for me to pluck up the confidence to enter Anseo.net so I was delighted when I heard that my friends in the KLCK Bloggers’ Network decided to take it on. The Blog Awards Ireland will be happening later this
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Last Thursday The Irish Times carried an opinion piece by Brian O’Connell entitled, “Technology in classroom still in the Dark Ages”. In this article Brian makes some interesting observations on the state of ICT in Irish primary and second level schools. Though these observations appear to be based on personal experiences it is good to
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In these times of cutbacks, it was great to see that Ministers Quinn and Rabbitte are determined to implement the promise of 100Mbps broadband for all second level schools. The plan is straightforward, there are 78 schools already connected, 200 schools will be connected by next September 2012, 200 more in 2013 and the final
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One of the great free resources for schools from Microsoft is Live@edu. This is a cloud-based service and it allows teachers and schools to deploy a full e-mail, calendar, tasks and office tools without the need for any software installation. As it is a cloud-based service it is accessible anywhere and at any time and
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