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An Increasingly Digital Life: February 2009
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An Increasingly Digital Life. Friday, February 27, 2009. If ever evidence of convergence was needed it has been cropping up in interesting ways recently. How about the news that Nokia, the biggest manufacturer of mobile pohones, are thinking of moving into the laptop market - http:/ www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/nokia mulling l.html. Or the various stories. About Asus, primarily a computer manufacturer, showing intentions to have a mobile phone on the market by the end of this year.
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An Increasingly Digital Life: August 2009
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An Increasingly Digital Life. Sunday, August 30, 2009. It has been a while since posting - I could use the excuse of the school holidays but of course holiday time is when I have more time not less so that won't do. When I started blogging, Patricia Donaghy recommended "little and often" but I haven't managed to follow that wise advice, perhaps it is time to give that maxim a whirl. It was nice to get a mention on the Silicon Republic. News site alongside Noel Cunningham. Looking forward to the CESI Meet.
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More Stress, Less Success: December 2011
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More Stress, Less Success. Friday, December 2, 2011. Government Planning Cuts to School Guidance Services. It has emerged today that the Irish government plan on making dramatic cuts to the provision of guidance and counselling services to second level schools. Currently guidance hours are allocated to schools based on the number of pupils in the school - see this circular for more information. There are a number of serious concerns to this proposed change. The adoption of such a policy would mean ma...
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More Stress, Less Success: March 2012
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More Stress, Less Success. Friday, March 9, 2012. David Puttnam at Science Gallery (Video). I recently attended a lecture in the Open Minds. Series in Dublin's Science Gallery. In which David Puttnam gave a wonderful lecture on ' Technology, Education and Ireland. The lecture was recorded and is now available on YouTube. It's embedded below for your convenience. You may find the question at the end particularly interesting. Friday, March 2, 2012. Amazing Line-up Announced for ISTA 50th Annual Conference.
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More Stress, Less Success: CESI Conference 2011 - Building & Growing a Subject Blog
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More Stress, Less Success. Saturday, February 5, 2011. CESI Conference 2011 - Building and Growing a Subject Blog. This afternoon I will be presenting at the Computers in Education Society of Ireland Conference. In Portlaoise. along with my colleague and SCC English. Together we will giving a presentation on " Building and Growing a Subject Blog. Below is an embedded copy of our Prezi. Presentation and here is an information sheet. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Want to be a teacher? 160; Defining t...
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More Stress, Less Success: February 2012
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More Stress, Less Success. Friday, February 24, 2012. CESI Meet 2012: An 'Education Hack Day' for Ireland? If you're visiting the blog while attending CESI Meet in Portlaoise this evening then you're very welcome. If you're not, please join the discussion anyway! This evening in Portlaoise I am giving a mini presentation (7 minutes) to a group of similarly minded technophile teachers at CESI Meet 2012. My own short talk is about plugging an idea - a first 'Education Hack Day. What's a Hack Day? We all ha...
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More Stress, Less Success: April 2011
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More Stress, Less Success. Thursday, April 28, 2011. NCCA Reveals New Biology, Chemistry and Physics Syllabi. The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. Have revealed their new syllabi for senior biology. The concurrent release of the syllabi is no coincidence and marks a new direction for senior cycle science in Ireland, or so they promise. The NCCA. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Habitat for Humanity - Miskolc 2011. I wrote recently about building social awareness in schools. HFH) I have been involv...
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More Stress, Less Success: University Plans to Down-Grade the Post-Graduate Diploma in Education
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More Stress, Less Success. Friday, October 14, 2011. University Plans to Down-Grade the Post-Graduate Diploma in Education. As I sat in my PGDE lecture the other day I was treated at the start to the usual drudgery of announcements, one flippant remark was made as the announcer was about to exit the theatre. It was something along these lines:. Interesting, I thought, we were told if we had any questions please send an email. Out the announcer waltzed and the lecture started! Will we be getting a refund?
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More Stress, Less Success: Want to be a teacher? Why bother!
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More Stress, Less Success. Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Want to be a teacher? I'm not rich and I'm not poor. The past number of years have been tough for everyone in Ireland and I am very lucky to be working full time in a wonderful school. However, I have endured a pay reduction of around 15% in that period, through the combined effects of pay cuts and pension levies, and like everyone else things have become much tighter of late. Oh, on the pay scale. But of course there is promotion? Of course, pay is o...
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More Stress, Less Success: August 2011
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More Stress, Less Success. Friday, August 19, 2011. New Year, Same Argument: Standards in Maths and Science. Last year I wrote a piece on this blog. Arguing the case for the supposedly poor standards in maths and science in this country and specifically in the leaving certificate. I feel it important to reiterate some of the points made in that post (and some new ones) as the issues seems to reoccur every year and I feel it is unfairly represented in the media - especially in print. Remove the points sys...
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