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 […]
The terms ‘problem’ and ‘problem-solving’ are used 125 times in the primary school maths curriculum document. However, it’s fair to say that practice within many classrooms can often see much less focus being placed on it than is envisaged within the curriculum.
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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
Classroom Screen is a brilliant, simple online tool that makes my life as a teacher easier. This amazing web app provides a series of “widgets” which every teacher needs, which can be displayed (in full screen) on your, well, classroom screen. If you are lucky enough to have an interactive whiteboard, then it’s even better.
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Microsoft One Note has become one of my favourite classroom tools, from the simple tasks of not needing to run to the office for new whiteboard markers to the difficult tasks of differentiating a lesson and here’s why: OneNote for windows 10 at first glance: One Note lends itself to the classroom in many ways;
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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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One of the many interesting events taking place nationwide as part of Maths Week 2022 (October 15 -23) is I’m a Mathematician Get me out of here! a student-led STEM enrichment activity where school students (Age 10 -18) connect with mathematicians through online real-time text-based chats. Here they can ask any maths questions they like
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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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Tick tock! EPV Day Approved Courses must close Friday, August 19th at 5pm so make sure you don’t miss out on securing your EPV days for the coming academic year… Teachers can still avail of seven EPV day approved online courses. starting at only €20 each. All courses are fully online and can be completed anytime
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A last call out to potential participants for our three Microsoft blended courses (Face-to-face & online), ‘1 Minecraft for Education and 2 Dream Space STEM in the Primary Classroom. Join the Dream Space team for two days, August 15th & 16th in Microsoft Dream Space (One Microsoft Place, Leopardstown, Dublin) to take part in hands-on, curricular
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