Tagged: NCTE & News
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Game-based learning catches on in Irish schools News
07.03.2012 MissionV is a game-based learning initiative that has been running in 20 primary schools in 14 counties across Ireland since last September. Already, the digital model appears... -
Industry to teach web safety in Irish schools for Safer Internet Day News
30.01.2012 Across the globe, this year’s Safer Internet Day will be happening on 7 February. As part of the digital safety drive, industry volunteers from Microsoft Ireland, UPC and O2...Categories: Web 2.0, Social Media, Security, Search Engines, Multimedia, Mobile, Media, Internet, Government, Games/Entertainment, Education, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Consumer Tech, Apps -
NCTE’s Webwise and UPC publish e-safety book for kids News
07.02.2011 UPC and Webwise have launched a new e-safety activity booklet, Play and Learn: Being Online, aimed at children using the internet. Available in nine languages, the booklet’s... -
Content of substance News
02.02.2011 Before everyone gets hung up on the hardware, the real gift of technology is the kaleidoscope of content that can be brought into the classroom and the home and usher in a... -
Parents are being called on to ‘Get Webwise! – Get Involved!’ News
02.02.2011 Safer Internet Day will be celebrated on Tuesday, 8 February 2011, in Ireland and 65 countries around the world, writes NCTE’s Simon Grehan. -
Laying the foundations for the schools of tomorrow News
02.02.2011 As the first 100Mbps digital schools were unveiled, former communications minister, Eamon Ryan TD, said 600 more schools are due to get essential broadband capacity.Categories: Web, Telecommunications, Networks, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Government, Education -
The teaching profession and the digital opportunity News
02.02.2011 Teachers have as much to gain as their students from the onset of digital education. The opportunity to grow personally and professionally is at their fingertips. -
Irish kids are the most responsible users of social networking News
21.10.2010 Children in Ireland have emerged as the most responsible users of social networking sites, a major EU study has revealed. Irish kids are the least likely out of the EU 27... -
Lights – camera – action! News
14.09.2010 The arrival of digital media in Irish schools has generated a whole new creative outlet for Ireland’s budding filmmakers. -
Online and software resources for schools News
14.09.2010 The internet, the laptop and the interactive whiteboard are the three cornerstones of the modern education process. Both inside and outside of the classroom children rely on the... -
Online safety and security News
14.09.2010 While the internet is a wonderful tool for children, there can be hidden (and not so hidden) dangers. With clear usage guidelines, some supervision and the right monitoring... -
Bringing Ireland’s education system into the 21st century News
14.09.2010 Ireland has a tradition of educational excellence. The National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) has the task of ensuring that, through the integration of ICT,... -
Set sail on the 7 Cs News
14.09.2010 The kids who will be tomorrow’s workforce are expected to be digitally literate and armed with critical-thinking skills and the ability to cut their way through oceans of data.... -
The State’s largest investment in technology for schools News
14.09.2010 The €150m investment by the Irish Government in ICT equipment in schools will see every teacher equipped with a laptop and software and every classroom equipped with digital...Tags: Software, Smart Economy, Digital Schools, Microsoft, Paul Rellis, ICT Ireland, TIF, NCTE, Irish Software Association, Department of Education and Science, Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Jerome Morrissey, Graham Byrne, Promethean, Seamus McGuinness, Greg Tierney, Steljes, Paul Roche, Net Communications -
Ireland’s first digital schools will pave way for digital citizens News
23.09.2010 This autumn, the first 78 schools across Ireland will go live with 100Mbps broadband connectivity. -
Most teens approached by strangers on social-networking sites: survey News
08.02.2010 Microsoft research shows that 71pc of Irish teenagers have been contacted by strangers online and 43pc have responded out of curiosity, which should be a cause for serious...Categories: Digital LifeTags: NCTE, -
7th Safer Internet Day to focus on social media explosion News
03.02.2010 The 7th Safer Internet Day will be celebrated on 9th February 2010 in more than 60 countries across the world. This year the theme is “Think Before You Post.”Categories: Comms, Digital Life -
Govt’s next ICT investment must focus on e-learning environments News
18.01.2010 As kids swarmed over the latest learning technologies at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition last week, it is clear the next phase of the Government’s investment in... -
Schools to benefit from free online encyclopedia access News
05.01.2010 As part of the Government’s €150-million plan for 'smart schools’, €450,000 will be made available this year to pay for primary and secondary school access to online reference...Categories: R&D -
Microsoft enlists grads to create Ireland’s digital schools curriculum News
22.12.2009 Twenty graduates of technology or teacher training college courses are to get work placement positions in Microsoft Ireland to help develop digital material for the school...Categories: Government, R&D