An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Sunday Feb 17, 2013
Sunday Feb 17, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I previewed two conferences that have a healthy following each year. The Irish Primary PE Assocation (IPPEA) is shortly having its tenth annual conference in St. Patrick's College and the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) is having its fortieth annual conference at GMIT. Caitriona Cosgrave from St. Colmcille's Junior National School and representing the IPPEA and Anne McMorrough from the Marino Institute of Education and representing CESI told me about the conferences and shared some of their own thoughts on the respective topics.
Sunday Feb 03, 2013
Sunday Feb 03, 2013
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I spoke to James Whelton, co-founder with Bill Liao of CoderDojo. I then visited the Kilkenny dojo and spoke to some local mentors and participants ranging in age from 8 to 18.
Monday Mar 26, 2012
Monday Mar 26, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme Fred Boss talks about personal learning networks and edchatie. The interview was recorded at the CESI 2012 conference. In the first of a two-part interview, the recently retired director of Blackrock Education Centre, Dr. Séamus Cannon, discusses how he became a teacher, the influence his father - a primary teacher -had on his work, and why he likes Joyce's Ulysses.
Wednesday Mar 21, 2012
Wednesday Mar 21, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill interview by Barry Hennessy On this week's programme poet and multi-linguist Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill speaks about the benefits of learning Irish. Simon Lewis of Carlow Educate Together NS and of Anseo.Net describes how to create an app for your school using appmakr. Patrick Felicia from WIT discusses the educational potential of video games. Both Simon and Patrick presented workshops at the annual CESI conference in 2012.
Monday Mar 12, 2012
Monday Mar 12, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Report on physical activity and schools by Barry Hennessy In this programmeI spoke to Professor Emer Smyth of the Economic and Social Research Institute about two studies that were recently published by the Institute: Influences on 9-year-olds' learning: Home, school and community and The primary classroom: Insights from the 'Growing up in Ireland' study I also bring you the second part of my interview with Professor Steve Wheeler of Plymouth University who was the keynote speaker at the 2012 CESI conference. In it he speaks about online learning and virtual learning environments.
Monday Feb 27, 2012
Monday Feb 27, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Websites reviewed by Barry Hennessy In this programme I spoke to the keynote speaker at the 2012 CESI conference, Professor Steve Wheeler of Plymouth University. He blogs at Learning with E's and tweets using the handle @timbuckteeth. Barry reviewed a selection of his favourite education websites. The sites featured were Kbears, Ocean.si.edu, SFS Kids, Make Projects, Espanol Extra, and Free Rice.
Tuesday Jan 31, 2012
Tuesday Jan 31, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney In this programme I interviewed three keynote speakers at the 2012 annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals' Network (IPPN). My guests were Gerry Murphy, President of the IPPN, Professor Michael Fullan of OISE at the University of Toronto, and film producer and education thinker, Lord David Puttnam.
Wednesday Jan 25, 2012
Wednesday Jan 25, 2012
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Guidance interview by Barry Hennessy In this programme young scientists who studied education topics describe their studies. The students include Aisling Lawson from Hartstown Community School, Greg Bauer and Ben Morris from Donabate Community College, and Eva Wallace, Elizabeth Foley Landers and Sarah Shanahan from Presentation Secondary School in Ballyphehane in Cork. I also spoke to Lisa Curran, a teacher in Donabate Community College and to Mícheál Martin, leader of Fianna Fáil who was visiting the BT Young Scientists Exhibition.
Sunday Oct 30, 2011
Sunday Oct 30, 2011
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney PISA Investigation by Barry Hennessy Interactive Whiteboard report by Sinéad Burke On this week's programme my special guest was poet and retired teacher Gabriel Fitzmaurice from Moyvane in Co. Kerry. He spoke about teaching writing and teaching Irish, and read his poem Proud to Be Me from his collection of the same name, published by Mercier Press. One of the websites referred to by Sinéad in her report is www.anseo.net.
Wednesday Feb 09, 2011
Wednesday Feb 09, 2011
Produced and presented by Seán Delaney News Report by Barry Hennessy This programme featured a report from the 2011 Conference of the Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI). The Chairperson of CESI, Adrienne Webb, explained how schools are using their technology grants. Simon Lewis discussed the use of cloud computing for communication in his school and Tom Barrett, the keynote speaker, discussed how he uses education in his classroom and about his blog.