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Weave Project

The SFI-funded WEAVE Project is an exciting two-year collaboration between Dublin City University (DCU), SETU Carlow, the Professional Development Services for Teachers in Ireland (PDST), and Arizona State University (ASU). Over the last two years, the WEAVE Project has worked with teachers and students from nine primary schools across the Dublin and Carlow regions. The …

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MakeCode Arcade: Using Coding to Encourage Creativity, Collaboration & Problem-Solving in Wellbeing

I have recently started teaching coding as part of the wellbeing curriculum in my school. You might think; what has coding got to do with a student’s wellbeing? It turns out, quite a lot! Collaboration & Problem-Solving Firstly; wellbeing focusses on the junior cycle key skill of staying well. It is outlined in the wellbeing …

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Informatics education at school in Europe

The European Commission / EACEA / Eurydice report, Informatics education at school in Europe, was published in recent days and it provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of informatics education, as a distinct discipline, in primary and general secondary education in 2020/2021 in 39 education systems. The research is associated with Action 10 in the Digital …

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Virtual Reality in Further Education (ClassVR)

This is the third blog post about one further education setting’s experience in implementing virtual reality in their programmes. If you are only joining us on this journey, check out where the journey began and how it progressed in the previous posts.  Post 1: Outlined the technology and initial reasons for choosing ClassVR Post 2: …

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