UNESCO ICT in education prize
Call for nominations open to projects creating synergies between digital learning and greening education.
Author Archives
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Leaving Certificate Computer Science Quiz 2023
Congratulations to the 6th Year Computer Science students in Cabinteely CS for coming 1st last week in the LC CS CESI Quiz (teacher: Aoife O’Rourke). They won the €200 voucher kindly sponsored by sgeducation.ie. The four finalists were: 5th Year CS Terenure College (teacher: Ollie Cosgrave), 5th Year CS Adamstown CC (teacher: Suzanne Linnane) and 5th […]
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A chat with Adrienne Webb
Adrienne Webb taught Mathematics, Geography and ICT at St. Michael’s Holy Faith Secondary School, Finglas for more than 30 years. Recently she stepped down from her role as Chair of CESI, which she held for over eleven years. She has a Masters Degree in Education (Digital Learning) DCU. As part of IT 2000, she was […]
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Pam O’Brien – having the best job in the world
We are very lucky to get Pam on the CESI Staffroom, to say that she’s busy is a huge understatment, Pam is a lecturer in the Information Technology Department on the Thurles campus of the Technological University of the Shannon. She is the organiser of the annual ICT in Education conference and has been a […]
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Pam O’Brien talks about Youth Media Team
She’s a is a lecturer in the Information Technology Department on the Thurles campus of the Technological University of the Shannon. She is the organiser of the annual ICT in Education conference and has been a mentor in CoderDojo since 2011. She has also mentored the Youth Media Team since their inception in 2013. She […]
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Interview with Michael Hallissy
Michael is a former primary school teacher who has over 25 years’ experience working in the field of digital education. He developed his interest in digital education in the early 1980s as an undergraduate student teacher in Coláiste Mhuire, Marino by playing with the college’s newly acquired Apple Macintosh computer. His first research project focused […]
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Computer Science Week 2022
A great programme of events for Ireland’s first ever Computer Science Week (8-15 Oct.)
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October is Cyber Security Month #CyberSecMonth 2022
The European Cybersecurity Month is turning 10!
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CESI LC CS 2022 Online Quiz
Thanks to all the teachers and students who took part in this year’s online quiz. We hope you had some fun doing it and that some healthy competition emerged between classes!1st prize to 5th Year/Walton class in Tullow Community School with 45 points (Cleona McCann’s class)! You’ve won a €100 voucher from sgeducation.ie. 2nd Prize to […]
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Digital Schools of Europe Award
The Digital Schools of Europe Award – formally known as the Digital Schools of Distinction award – has recently been conferred upon 13 primary and post-primary schools in Ireland. These schools received Digital Schools of Europe status in recognition of the strides they made during the recent school lockdowns to ensure the continuous provision of […]
