Young and Irish Voices
Musings about big events we’ve attended.
Dave and Caitlin interviewed Marty Cooper, the inventor of the mobile phone, about his idea for the mobile phone, the future of the phone, other inventions he has created and what he thinks about banning phones in schools.
Here are some pics of the original phone
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We caught up with Sophie Healy Thow, Emer Hicky and Ciara Judge who won the Science & Technology section of the BT and EU Young Scientist Competitions – quite an achievement!
We talked about what the young people themselves thought about technology in the classroom and the background of their award-winning Science project!
Stay posted!
Youth Media Team
Dr Ruth Freeman, Director of Programmes, Enterprise and International Affairs at the Science Foundation of Ireland took time out of her busy schedule to talk to us.
We chatted about her background in genetics, how the foundation decides who to give funding to and how to get more girls into science.
Jack and Aisling interviewed Lord Puttnam. In the interview, they talked about technology in education, UNICEF, David’s worldwide teaching from his old barn in Cork and they couldn’t help but mention his huge success in film making. Lord Puttnam sits on the Labour benches but he’s not a politician. He believes that technology is the only way forward.
Jack and Aisling
Youth Media Team
We were lucky enough to get a chance to chat to Dr René Lydiksen of LEGO Education. He talks about his new scheme launched with Mary I in Limerick and how he believes that LEGO can make learning about things such as algorithms fun!
We’re having a great time here at the Excited Digital Learning Festival! More posts to come soon.
Jack and Eoin
Youth Media Team
Sinéad interviewed Maggie Green
Interview with Rob
Sinéad and Áine interviewed Linda Keane
Jack interviewed Simon Lewis
Finn interviewed Mary Linehan
Sinéad and Áine interviewed Roy Mitchell
Dave interviewed Kate Molloy
Jack interviewed Catherine O’Keeffe
Finn and Dave interviewed Evelyn O’Connor
Aine interviewed Cormac Cahill
Sinéad interviewed Pat Seaver
Aine interviewed Joe Molloy
Áine interviewed Nuala Kelly
Áine interviewed Mary Jo Bell
Finn interviewed with Anne McMorrough
Jack interviewed Tim Hegarty
Jack and Finn spoke to Joe Dale about Digital Storytelling, how he integrates technology into the Modern Foreign Languauge classroom and his thoughts on the ‘Spark the Imagination’ conference.
Dave, Finn and Jack interviewed Paudie Scanlon about the why he came to CESI and what he wanted to take away from it.
Finn and Jack spoke to Adrienne Webb, chairperson of CESI to hear about their “Spark the Imagination” conference. She speaks about her long term involvement with CESI and the work that they do to support teachers to integrate technology in their classrooms.