In this recording Dave and Finn hear Catherine Cronin and Laurence Cuffe discuss how technology provides a means of connecting that was previously not possible. Listen to their chat below.
“Makey Makey” workshop
Jack and David interviewed teachers Drew Buddie and Bianca Grogan on the benefits of using the makey makey kit in classrooms. In the interview they told us that every child should have a good IT educatoin beacause the vast majority of jobs in the future will involve some type of IT knowledge. You can listen to our interview here
“Makey Makey” workshop
Jack and David interviewed teachers Drew Buddie and Bianca Grogan on the benefits of using the Makey Makey kit in classrooms. In the interview they told us that every child should have a good IT educatoin beacause the vast majority of jobs in the future will involve some type of IT knowledge.
Interview with Dr. Daithí Ó Murchú
Dr. Daithí Ó Murchú gave a keynote presentation at the CESI Conference today. I think it’s fair to say that he sparked people’s imagination. He encouraged attendeees to create teaching and learning environments that work best for their students. We heard about immersive and wearable technologies, the blurrring of the lines between reality and imagination as well as his proposed second trip to Everest among other things. David and Finn continued the conversation with Daitihí in their interview.
Interview at FEILTE with Micheal Mulgrew
Finn and David talked to Micheal Mulgrew, one of the Speakers at Feilte, about the festival itself and also about the differences between Irish teachers and American teachers. He had lots to say about what teachers in New York have in common as well as how they differ in his view. He also gave a great talk at the conference.
Michael is the fifth president of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), whose 200,000 members include teachers and other professional staff in New York City public schools as well as family child-care providers, nurses, adult education instructors and retired members.
Interview with Fighting Words
Here Finn and David interview two of the organisers from Fighting Words about the work that their organisation does. Fighting Words is a creative writing centre established by Roddy Doyle and Sean Love to help students to develop their writing skills. The idea behind Fighting Words is a simple one – it’s about creative writing, writing for fun. So, you get things like Space Unicorns and Aliens in their stories. (http://www.fightingwords.ie/adventures-ralph-and-joe) They have also published books of the stories people write when they go to the Fighting Words centre in Russell Street in Dublin 1.
Interview with YSI
Here David and Finn interview Young Social Innovators about their work. YSI seek to engage and prepare young people aged 15-18 to take part in civic action, whether through volunteerism, community service, service-learning, citizenship education, social entrepreneurship and innovation.
Anne White at #FEILTE
Here Finn and David are talking to Ann White about her future hopes to start podcasting with her 1st class. We think she will succeed because she knows lots about technology and about teaching.
Interview by: Finn Briody and David Lombard.
Interview with Simon Lewis at #CESImeet FEILTE
Here Finn and David met up with Simon at last nights CESImeet. We asked him some questions about Educate Together schools and his many websites. He gave us some really good answers. Simon runs a number of sites for Irish school and about education in Ireland such as Anseo.net . He also runs half-marathons! 🙂
Interview by: Finn Briody and David Lombard.
Interview with Helen Bullock at CESImeet FEILTE.
As part of CESImeet and FEILTE Helen Bullock [ @HowILearn ] released her new open source book How I Learn which shows about different learning methods.This is a ‘crowdsourced’ book with lots of interesting things said by the contributors about the ways they learn. We enjoyed talking to her very much.
Interview by; Finn Briody and David Lombard