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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In the past few weeks, Microsoft officially launched Microsoft Viva and made some substantial changes to Microsoft Educator Centre. Microsoft Viva is a product aimed at employee engagement within MS Teams. It consists of a number of parts but one element of interest to educators is the Viva Learning section.The Learning section in Viva combines
Some years ago, while participating in teacher CPD, I found myself having an aha moment. One of the other course participants was delivering a presentation and at the end she told this story of how in her school all of the teachers appear to ‘walk the walk’. Through her eyes, teachers walk the corridors with
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The rise in the use of digital technologies in secondary schools for teaching and learning purposes is widely evident, particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic, whereby emergency remote learning has been a major factor in student’s learning over the past two academic years. Despite technology being utilised as an educational tool for teaching and learning, such
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National Geographic MapMaker is a nice mapping tool that I’ve used in the past with my students. It was recently updated with an improved user interface, additional data sets, and more annotation tools. With NatGeo MapMaker you can create custom maps to display datasets, to compare datasets and to illustrate correlations and geographical points. National Geographic MapMaker includes
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EU Code Week is upon us once more and this year runs from the 9th to the 24th October. EU Code Week is a grassroots initiative co-ordinated by the European Commission that focuses on boosting computational thinking, coding and related digital skills of young people, as well as training for teachers. Commissioner Thierry Breton has
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