Interview with Mark Brown

Sinead interviewed Mark Brown, from New Zealand who recently got a job as a Professor and new Director of the National Institute for Visual Learning in Dublin City University. Mark told us what his job consists of and also his mixed opinion on Technology in Education.

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Interview with Dughall McCormick

Sinéad and Aine interviewed Dughall McCormick, who is from the U.K

Dughall talked about the Nace organisation which he is in. He also talked about top ten tech tips from the poetry of W.B. Yeats that he thinks is of great importance.

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Interview with Gavin Duffy and Peter Casey

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Laura and Sinead interviewed Dragon’s Den Entrepreneurs Gavin Duffy and Peter Casey. They talked to us about what they thought of the ideas and pitches they saw at the Young Innovators Event, what they look for in a pitch and also how they deal with failure.

Interview with CWIT

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Sinead and Laura interviewed Karen Doyle from Intel, Rose Bain from Analog Devices and Una McDermott from DELL who with others in their organisations have come together to set up the Limerick Connecting Women In Technology group. This is a network set up to encourage females to have a career in technology and engineering. Click the link below to see what they had to say about this.

 

Interview with Ingrid Vanderveldt

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Laura and Sinead interviewed Entrepreneur Ingrid Vanderveldt, who is the leader of numerous programs at DELL. She talked to us about her ‘Empowering One Billion Women By 2020′ and how she think that if the world is going to be turned around that it has to be done through a new set of eyes, which is the eyes of women. She also talked to us about her leadership and how she thinks sport has the same concept of thinking as setting up a business. We had great fun interviewing Ingrid!

Interview with Ruth Scott

 

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Laura and Sinead interviewed RTE 2FM DJ Ruth Scott. She talked to us about her career as a DJ and how she feels that technology is the way forward and how she found the day to be fascinating. We had a brilliant time interviewing Ruth and wish her all the best with her future!

 

Interview with Clare McInerney from Lero

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Sinead and Laura interviewed Clare McInerney, an Educational Manager from Lero, a research centre which design tools and methodologies and help people write better software. She talked to us about what Lero do, which is working with schools and helping them write software in a fun and creative way. We had a great time interviewing Clare.

The Flip in Tipp

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Bianca Ní Ghrógáin was talking at ICTEDU2013 in LIT Thurles about ‘Flipping your classroom’. She spoke about making fun educational videos to show her classes to learn in a different way. She would use Go Animate, Powerpoint,  podcasts,  Moviemaker  and  PlanetNutshell to explain topics to the children. The children can then make their own little videos to show other children. They would even want to make a movie to teach their teachers and parents topics that they aren’t familiar with!

Bianca likes the fact that you’re focusing on learning and not focusing on the technology itself. Flipping the classroom has made the children she teaches more confident and they wanted to teach each other.

Here’s Steph’s interview with Bianca

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