Which One Doesn’t Belong? is a site I learned about recently when looking for resources to promote Computational Thinking Skills amongst primary school children. This maths/problem solving site is for students of all ages and challenges them to look at a set of four images and determine which image doesn’t belong and then justify their […]
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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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Make outlook work for you with ‘Board View’… Do you have a pile of post its or to do lists which never see the light of day? Organise your important items in one place, in one window on screen – your calendars, to do lists, sticky notes, links, files, and even reminders! Think of board
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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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Over the summer break it’s always nice to pick up some new resources and ideas that can be used during the upcoming academic year. This summer I became aware that Scoilnet have added a fantastic new resource to their website, Britannica School. Britannica School is an online library of hundreds of thousands of high-quality readings, videos
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Irish Schools have met many challenges over the last number of years. Just when we are exiting the crisis caused by Covid another fresh challenge has presented itself with the large influx of children from the Ukraine as a result of the current war there. By the middle of May 2022 over 6000 children from
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This week my students and I had really interesting discussions about the role of social media (and the internet in general) in providing platforms for those individuals who wish to ‘cancel’ others. We discussed what the term meant and whether it was in fact nothing more than a ‘new’ way to enforce ‘political correctness’. We
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Everyone seems to have caught the Wordle bug and although this simple word finding puzzle, that has captured the imagination of late, wasn’t specifically designed as an educational resource it offers some great learning possibilities for us teachers. Wordle is a grid word game developed by Josh Wardle, a software engineer. Wardle originally invented it
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Over the years so many students have had an impact on my approach to learning and teaching. When I hear the phrase ‘student voice’, there is one particular past student who pops into my head. A couple of times a year I get a surprise email to let me know about the great things she
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While rummaging through my local independent bookshop prior to Christmas, I picked up “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, opening up at the part where Aslan is resurrected on the Stone Table by the Deeper Magic from the Dawn of Time. In the social media-driven world of today, this blog post is going to
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