An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Wednesday May 11, 2016
Wednesday May 11, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
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.
Wednesday May 04, 2016
Wednesday May 04, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
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.
Wednesday Apr 27, 2016
Wednesday Apr 27, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to Maynooth University Emeritus Professor John Coolahan about the inaugural Arts in Education Portal National Day. The portal was one of the outcomes of the Arts in Education Charter. Professor Coolahan chairs the Charter implementation group.
Wednesday Apr 20, 2016
Wednesday Apr 20, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this second part of my interview with Stanford University's Professor Emeritus, Lee Shulman, Professor Shulman reflects on the idea of pedagogical content knowledge which was an idea he introduced to the world of education in 1985. Our discussion took place 30 years later at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
Wednesday Apr 13, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme Professor Lee Shulman discusses the topic of professional education with particular reference to teacher education and to signature pedagogies. He is professor emeritus at Stanford University Graduate School of Education.
Wednesday Apr 06, 2016
Wednesday Apr 06, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I continue my discussion with Orla Kelly on the teaching of science in the primary school. Orla Kelly lectures in the Church of Ireland College of Education and she co-authored the book Creative Teaching in Primary Science with Roger Cutting of Plymouth University.
Wednesday Mar 30, 2016
Wednesday Mar 30, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest is Dr Orla Kelly from the Church of Ireland College of Education. She recently co-authored the book Creative Teaching in Primary Science with Roger Cutting from Plymouth University.
Wednesday Mar 23, 2016
Wednesday Mar 23, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
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.
Wednesday Mar 16, 2016
Wednesday Mar 16, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
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
Wednesday Mar 09, 2016
Wednesday Mar 09, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
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.