Good Practice Videos
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A flipped learning approach for Maths
Maths Teacher integrates self-made videos into her lessons. Through the use of Explain Everything and Schoology, students can view and solve the problems in their own time. This allows her to provide individualised support for students.
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ICT i rang Mata
A Maths teacher explains how technology benefits her teaching. She discusses the use of Geogebra and how it engages her students. They compare their work on paper to their tablets as self and peer assessment. She discusses the use of Google Docs for planning within the department.
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Digital Technologies in Le Chéile Secondary School
Interview with Principal discussing their student choice approach to teaching and learning. They have implemented a flipped classroom model into their school. This allows students to complete lessons in their own time and allowing teachers to provide individualised feedback. Students also make their own flipped videos as a means of assessment.
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Using Digital Technologies to Support Student Learning in Home Economics
Home Economics teacher explains how she integrates technology into her teaching and planning. She discusses Google Classroom and how it passes the responsibility of the learning onto the students. This allows for her to provide differentiated feedback to students. She promotes teachers supporting teachers through the use of online communities.
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Leading Digital Technologies Development in St. Clare’s Comprehensive School
Interview with principal about the implementation of technology into their school and the support they provide for their staff. They promote constant CPD for all staff members, working together to learn from each other about digital technologies. A core group of dedicated staff members was created to assist in this implementation.
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Planning for Digital Learning in Le Chéile Secondary School
Interview with Deputy Principal discussing the importance of teachers learning from each other as a form of CPD in the school. The school has designated hours monthly for departments to discuss how they can improve the teaching and learning in their school through the use of digital learning.
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Coordinating Digital Technologies in St. Clare’s Comprehensive School
Interview with Digital Technology coordinator about the implementation of technology into their schools. The teacher discusses about the benefits of creating a strong Digital strategy group to assist in whole school integration of technology. He found that having a strong AUP was important at the beginning of this process.
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ICT i nGaelcholáiste Luimnigh
Interview with Principal on the journey his school went on with ICT. He discusses the process they followed to introduce tablets to all staff and students. He outlines the benefits of ICT to planning for staff and management and the use of committees to support one another.
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Scratch for Literacy and Numeracy
A class teacher talks about the use of Scratch to support literacy and numeracy. She describes how using Scratch across the curriculum helps develop pupils' skills in many areas, including problem solving, and also how it supports assessment, in particular self and peer assessment.
