Good Practice Videos
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Digital Technologies in Le Chéile Secondary School
Interview with Principal discussing their student choice approach to teaching and learning. They have implemented a flipped classroom model into their school. This allows students to complete lessons in their own time and allowing teachers to provide individualised feedback. Students also make their own flipped videos as a means of assessment.
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Using Digital Technologies to Support Student Learning in Home Economics
Home Economics teacher explains how she integrates technology into her teaching and planning. She discusses Google Classroom and how it passes the responsibility of the learning onto the students. This allows for her to provide differentiated feedback to students. She promotes teachers supporting teachers through the use of online communities.
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Leading Digital Technologies Development in St. Clare’s Comprehensive School
Interview with principal about the implementation of technology into their school and the support they provide for their staff. They promote constant CPD for all staff members, working together to learn from each other about digital technologies. A core group of dedicated staff members was created to assist in this implementation.
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Planning for Digital Learning in Le Chéile Secondary School
Interview with Deputy Principal discussing the importance of teachers learning from each other as a form of CPD in the school. The school has designated hours monthly for departments to discuss how they can improve the teaching and learning in their school through the use of digital learning.
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Coordinating Digital Technologies in St. Clare’s Comprehensive School
Interview with Digital Technology coordinator about the implementation of technology into their schools. The teacher discusses about the benefits of creating a strong Digital strategy group to assist in whole school integration of technology. He found that having a strong AUP was important at the beginning of this process.
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ICT i nGaelcholáiste Luimnigh
Interview with Principal on the journey his school went on with ICT. He discusses the process they followed to introduce tablets to all staff and students. He outlines the benefits of ICT to planning for staff and management and the use of committees to support one another.
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Census at School: a tool to support the Maths curriculum
Interview with Teachers about the use of Census at School to support teaching and learning in Maths. They discuss the benefits of integrating this international database tool into their lessons, particularly when focusing on probability and statistics. They show the large bank of resources available to teachers when teaching Project Maths.
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Recording using smartphones in German
Example of how students can use their own smartphones in a German language class to record themselves speaking. They send the recordings to the teacher via the Office 365 platform and the teacher assesses the recordings and provides audio and written feedback. (As Gaeilge with English subtitles)
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Putting the Digital Learning Plan into action: Ratoath College
In this clip, the staff of Ratoath College talk about the actions they took to implement their digital learning plan.
