Programme 340, Education and the Transformation Society (7-11-18)

Posted in Technology on Nov 7th, 2018 Comments

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

Theme tune composed and arranged by David Vesey

On this week's programme I speak to Ray Gallon of the Transformation Society about education outside the formal settings of school. I interviewed Ray at the 2018 annual conference of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe.

Among the topics we discuss are the following:

How the phrase “knowledge is power” has changed meaning
Educating outside formal school settings
Working with different sized groups
Presenting webinars
How he organises his own learning
Effective presentations
How teaching is changing
Ingredients of a good radio programme
Difference between a radio programme and a podcast
What inspires him personally and professionally

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Programme 337, Irish Primary Teacher, pt 2 (17-10-18)

Posted in Primary, Technology on Oct 17th, 2018 Comments

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

This week I'm delighted to bring you the second part of my interview with Niamh Dunphy, the teacher behind the blog and social media resource Irish Primary Teacher. Among the topics we talk about on the programme this week are:

Plans for developing Irish Primary Teacher
Where she gets her lesson ideas
Using the store to encourage users to remain on the website
How she reviews products for the Reviews section
Clothing and teaching
What she likes most and finds most challenging about teaching
Differences between teaching in England and teaching in Ireland
Her favourite subject to teach
What she has learned from teaching to date
What are schools for?
A teacher who had a significant impact on her
Who inspires her
Why she finds Instagram better than books
A change she would make in her current school
And much more!

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Programme 336, Irish Primary Teacher, pt 1 (10-10-18)

Posted in Primary, Technology on Oct 10th, 2018 Comments

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I speak to Niamh Dunphy, the person behind the hugely popular Irish Primary Teacher, blog, Facebook page and Instagram account.

Among the topics we discuss in this first part of our interview are:

Why she set up the blog, and pages on Instagram and Facebook
Her positive and negative experiences of teaching in England
What she knows about her audience
Dividing content among various social media platforms
How teachers support each other through social media
What posts are most popular
Dealing with trolls and negative comments
How much time it takes

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Programme 322, Past Present and Future of Computers in Education (4-4-18)

Posted in Conferences, Technology on Apr 4th, 2018 Comments

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

On this week's programme I speak to two keynote speakers from the 2018 annual conference of the Computer Education Society of Ireland, Elizabeth Oldham and Richard Millwood, both from Trinity College Dublin. They discuss the past, present and future of the organisation and among other topics Richard discusses how computational thinking relates to teaching the visual arts.

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Programme 321, Teaching, Technology and Adaptability (28-3-18)

Posted in Conferences, Technology on Mar 28th, 2018 Comments

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

On this week's programme my guest is Joanna Norton, a lecturer at the University of the Arts in London. In the course of our interview she told me about the App she developed called Keywords Biology.

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Programme 320, Adrienne Webb on Leaving Cert Computer Science (21-3-18)

Posted in Conferences, Technology, Leadership on Mar 21st, 2018 Comments

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

This week I speak to the Chairperson of the Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI), Adrienne Webb, about the new Leaving Certificate course in Computer Science and other matters.

During the interview we discuss how CESI has been working with various players, such as the NCCA and the PDST, to facilitate the smooth introduction of the syllabus; Adrienne tells us about how she became interested in technology; she discusses resources for teaching computer science; and she describes her approach to working with technology in school.

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Programme 319, Pamela O’Brien at CESI (14-3-18)

Posted in Conferences, Technology on Mar 14th, 2018 Comments

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I speak to lecturer in mathematics and programming at LIT (Tipperary Campus), Pamela O'Brien. Among the topics we discuss are:

Her workshop on “Breakoutedu”
Her job at LIT – Tipperary Campus
The ICT in Education Conference
The difference between coding and computer science
Transitions she made from working in insurance to lecturing and from mathematics to computer science
How teachers can become more involved in coding
Who inspires her
Why she likes EDCHATIE

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Programme 305, Literacy Association of Ireland Workshops (15-11-17)

Posted in Research, Language Education, Multi-cultural, Technology on Nov 15th, 2017 Comments

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.

On this week's programme I spoke to three people who presented workshops at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland. They were Claire Dunne from the Marino Institute of Education, Damien Quinn from seomraranga.com and Anne Burke from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Among the websites mentioned on the programme were:

Children's Literature Association of Ireland

http://bookcentre.ca/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586750-bully

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