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Winners of Schools’ Science Video Competition Announced

The winners of the €3000 schools science video competition, ReelLIFE SCIENCE, are today announced as part of Science Week 2014. The primary school category winners are Sooey National School, Co. Sligo, with Julien Torrades from Summerhill College, Sligo taking first place at secondary school level. Primary and secondary schools from all over Ireland were challenged […]

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New Doctor Who Game Teaches Kids to Code [Video]

The BBC has launched a new computer game featuring The Doctor and a friendly Dalek, and aimed at teaching kids how to code. Unfortunately, it’s only available in the UK, where it can be downloaded from cbeebies.com/cbbc/ from tomorrow. It’s a great idea though, and a welcome continuation of the BBC tradition of promoting computing, dating back to […]

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Khan Academy Maths Learning Sweeps Ireland

We interviewed Sean O’Sullivan earlier this year as he was launching Mathletes, the Maths competition for Irish schools which uses the Khan Academy online learning games. It went on to become a big success, as this video shows:     Related articles Online maths teaching tool tailored to suit Irish curriculum Sean O’Sullivan launches €20k Mathletes […]

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MissionV Launches its VR Platform for All Schools

Earlier this year we visited a primary school in county Offaly to see the MissionV Virtual Reality Programme for Schools in action, as children used the Oculus Rift VR Headset to immerse themselves in a recreation of historic Clonmacnoise which they had built themselves. The resulting video was our biggest hit on Technology.ie, clocking up over 10,000 views […]

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Duolingo’s Irish Language Course Launches in Beta

Duolingo, the crowdsourced language-learning company, has beta-launched one of its most eagerly anticipated courses: Irish. It may come as a surprise to some, but when Duolingo asked its community what language courses they should develop next (after Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, German and French), the top requests were for Irish, Danish and Dutch. On St Patrick’s Day, […]

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Miss Mernagh is Top of her Class [Video]

Schools out for the summer, and Miss Mernagh‘s Senior Infants Class have graduated! We met her last year at Blog Awards Ireland where she took the top spot in the Science and Education category. Cathriona Mernagh blogs at MissMernagh.com where she has encountered a community of readers and collaborators who share her interest in early childhood education. It’s very important work and we […]

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Science is for Girls

Here’s a video that provides a pause for thought for anyone who is raising a daughter. According to the US National Science Foundation: 66 percent of 4th grade girls say they like science and mathematics, but only 18 percent of all college engineering majors are female. via Huffington Post.  Bonus link: How to Talk to […]

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Irish Kids create a Virtual Reality, then explore it using Oculus Rift [Video]

This is one of the most exciting videos I’ve seen about Oculus Rift, and it’s a Technology.ie exclusive! MissionV is a virtual reality platform for teaching and training which is currently beta-testing in 11 Irish schools. Recently, its founder James Corbett brought me to visit one of those schools: St Kieran’s NS in Broughal, Co Offaly. The kids there […]

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Celebrities Promote The Hour of Code

“Everybody in this country should learn how to programme a computer”, says Steve Jobs in this video from Code.org, a US non-profit “devoted to the vision that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn how to code”.  It’s a clip from a 90s TV interview with a younger Jobs, but most […]

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