Elementari. Combining Storytelling and Coding in One Tool

Elementari is a website for creating and publishing simple interactive and animated digital stories. The story creator, which looks and feels like any presentation or slideshow tool, fuses digital storytelling with important elements of coding and computational thinking. Students create a series of slides featuring text, images, illustrations, sound (including music and voice-over), and code blocks […]

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May 15 2025

From Chat to Classwork: Can a WhatsApp Bot Support Learning?

By Ashley Stephens

Imagine you’re a Leaving Cert Technology student. This means you’ve got a big project due. You’re staring down a Project Brief, perhaps your mind is spinning, and you do what many students of all ages do when they get a brief… In 2020, perhaps they turned to Google… It’s 2025, so let’s turn to WhatsApp

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Oct 2 2023

EU #CodeWeek 2023

By Pat Brennan

EU Code Week (Or fortnight🤔) is back this month, October 7th – 22nd as it continues the mission to mainstream coding, computational thinking, and digital literacy among young people across Europe and beyond. From humble beginnings in 2013 this annual event has grown exponentially with last years 10th iteration seeing 78 thousand events registered and

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Apr 20 2023

#6 The Weave Project Podcast

By Pat Brennan

In the sixth episode in our reboot of the TeachNet Podcast series, Pat Brennan is joined by Jennifer McGarry, Primary Teacher and Weave Project Coordinator to talk about this collaboration between DCU, SETU Carlow, PDST, Arizona State University and Science Foundation Ireland which aims to increase student awareness at Primary of the different ways that

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Apr 20 2023

#6 The Weave Project Podcast

By TeachNet Admin

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Apr 17 2023

BETT 23 – Musings from London’s ExCel

By Michael Hallissy

BETT (British Educational Training and Technology Show) returned to the ExCeL Arena in London from March 29th – 31st and I was delighted to be back having missed last year’s return of this flagship educational technology event post covid. The official stats maintain I was one of 30,000 educators, policy makers, EdTechs and industry changemakers

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Feb 20 2023

Weave Project

By Pat Brennan

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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Nov 24 2022

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

By Lydia Burke

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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Sep 26 2022

I’m a Mathematician, Get me out of here!

By Pat Brennan

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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Aug 4 2022

Last Call for DreamSpace Summer CPD

By Pat Brennan

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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