Posted in Language Education, Technology on Oct 5th, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week's guest is Professor Jackie Marsh from the University of Sheffield's School of Education. I interviewed her when she was in Dublin as a keynote speaker at the 40th annual conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland. In the course of the interview Jackie Marsh referred to some online resources and books including:
National Literacy Trust
Common Sense Media
Technology and Play
Aurasma
Anne Hass Dyson
The Meaning Makers by Gordon Wells
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Posted in Conferences, Third Level, Technology on May 11th, 2016
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On this week's programme my guest is Professor Leigh Graves Wolf who is the assistant director of the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology at Michigan State University. She was in Ireland to deliver a keynote address at the 2016 annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) in February last.
Among the sites mentioned on the programme are make.msu.edu and edutech.msu.edu.
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Posted in Conferences, Technology on May 4th, 2016
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On this week's programme I speak to Dr. Conor Galvin from the School of Education in University College Dublin. I met him at the annual Computers in Education Society of Ireland, CESI conference 2016, when he spoke about his presentation and about the role of technology in education more generally.
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Posted in Conferences, Technology on Mar 23rd, 2016
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On this week's programme I speak to Derek Breen, author of Scratch for Kids and an ambassador for Code Week. He was a keynote speaker at the 2016 conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland. He spoke a lot about the computer programming language Scratch and mentioned Trinity's Bridge 21 initiative.
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Posted in Conferences, Assessment, Technology on Mar 16th, 2016
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On this week's programme Ciara Brennan, a teacher in St. Peter's Primary School in Bray and a part-time lecturer in Marino Institute of Education, talks about her use of technology for assessment in her class and to motivate her pupils. She presented a workshop with Mary Jo Bell at the 2016 annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland.
Among the websites mentioned by Ciara were the following:
Kahoot (for students)
Kahoot (for teachers)
Socrative
Padlet
Animoto
Bett
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On this week's programme I bring you an interview with Professor Mark Brown from Dublin City University's National Institute of Digital Learning. I spoke to Mark Brown because he was a keynote speaker at the 2016 annual conference of the Computer Education Society of Ireland, which was held in Dublin City University on 27th February 2016. The programme also features brief extracts from my interviews with Derek Breen and Ciara Brennan; my full interviews with them will be featured on upcoming programmes.
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Posted in Primary, Technology, SESE on Mar 2nd, 2016
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On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with teacher of second class, Jane Shimizu. In this part of the interview Jane talks about her class blog, her time teaching in Japan on the JET programme, about her decision to become a primary school teacher and much more.
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Posted in Research, Maths/Science, Technology on Feb 3rd, 2016
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This week I bring you the second part of my interview with Jack Whitehead on the topic of Living Educational Theory and Action Research. You can find out more about Jack Whitehead's work at his website http://actionresearch.net Jack Whitehead was in Ireland to address a meeting of Educational Action Research in Ireland (EARI).
I also bring you a short report from the 2016 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. The report was done by my colleague on 103.2 Dublin City FM, Alex Gibson, who presents The Persuaders every Friday at 1pm.
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Posted in Conferences, Technology on Dec 2nd, 2015
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On this week's programme I spoke to Stephen Murgatroyed who is an educator and describes himself as a "futurist." He is an expert on innovation policy and practice.
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On this week's programme I bring you the second part of my interview with Dr. David Rose of CAST where he talks about Universal Design for Learning and schools having a "print disability."
Dr. Barbara O'Toole, who is coordinator of the Masters in Education Studies (Intercultural Education) programme at the Marino Institute of Education discusses some of the challenges faced by children of linguistic minorities in schools.
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