AI in the Classroom: How to Use AI to Personalise Teaching & Learning

It’s been another week full of AI developments. OpenAI recently announced a range of exciting features, as detailed in this article, which are poised to significantly enhance educational methodologies. However, many of these cutting-edge features are reserved for premium users who pay a €20 monthly fee for early access. Fortunately, Bing Chat’s Copilot feature, which […]

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Jan 31 2022

Science Blast Goes Virtual Again for 2022…

By Pat Brennan

As with so many events, by necessity, ESB Science Blast went virtual in 2021 and organisers are keeping this format in 2022 and it’s now time for Blast Off! Science Blast is a non-competitive programme for for senior primary classes from 3rd – 6th. It taps into students’ natural curiosity by asking them to investigate

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Jan 20 2022

Seesaw: From Home Learning to In-School Learning

By Eoghan O'Neill

Seesaw is a digital portfolio tool which allows pupils to store work in an online space and gain feedback from their teacher. The use of Seesaw has increased dramatically over the past two years, and it was one of the most popular platforms in primary schools during the periods of emergency remote teaching in 2020

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Nov 4 2021

Interactive Whiteboard or Projector?

By Frances O'Donnell

4 Tips for adding ‘INTERACTIVE’ to your Interactive Whiteboard! Some years ago, I spent a great deal of time creating interactive activities to use on my interactive whiteboard (IWB), probably after spending an even greater deal of time failing to find a ready to use activity. The rather temperamental cable connection, stylus or wifi lag

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Sep 9 2021

Looking forward to 2021-2022

By Eoghan O'Neill

An article published last week by Dr. Gearóid O’Suilleabháin of Munster Technological University on how the education system interacted with emergency remote teaching over the past 18 months really got me thinking about the year ahead. In the article, Dr. O’Suilleabháin challenges the negative narrative that has existed around emergency remote teaching. One of the

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May 10 2021

EdPuzzle – A Perfect Cross-Sectoral Blended Learning Tool?

By Eoghan O'Neill

EdPuzzle is an interactive, online tool that has come to prominence in recent years. It is a cross-sectoral tool that has equal benefits for teachers and learners at primary and post-primary level, as well as those in further education. EdPuzzle allows teachers to edit digital video to engage students. EdPuzzle links with a number of

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Dec 12 2019

ACM SIGCSE Comes to Ireland…

By Michael Hallissy

The latest ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) chapter, SIGCSEire, was officially launched this week in the UCD School of Computer Science. The ACM was founded in 1947 and is the world’s largest scientific and education computing society with nearly 100,000 members. was founded in 1970 and has

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Jan 19 2015

ClassFlow – Integration with ActivInspire Version 2

By John O' Mahony

Promethean has upgraded their award winning interactive whiteboard software ActivInspire to Version 2. Users of ActivInspire Version 1 cannot update to this new version of ActivInspire that has full integration with their new ClassFlow product by updating from within ActivInspire. In order to update to ActivInspire a user has to go to the Promethean Planet

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Dec 11 2014

ClassFlow – Smartphone and Tablet Apps

By John O' Mahony

In a post last month we looked at Promethean’s Cloud Based Lesson Creation and Presentation tools – ClassFlow. In many classes at primary and post-primary level, pupils are using tablet devices to enhance learning and classroom engagement. To facilitate two way communication between teachers and pupils, Promethean have developed a number of Smartphone and tablet

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Nov 27 2014

ClassFlow – Cloud Based Lesson Creation and Presentation Tools from Promethean

By John O' Mahony

All of the major technology players, Microsoft, Apple, Google etc. have been moving their technologies and software over to cloud based computing systems for the creation, storage and backup of different forms of media created on various devices – computers, laptops, netbooks, tablets and even the humble mobile phone. So it comes as no great

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