Registration for CESI Conference 2018 takes place through Eventbrite. Please use the links below to access the relevant registration. Conference 2018 Saturday 3rd March, DCU St. Patrick’s Campus Eventbrite Link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/cesi-conference-2018-saturday-cesicon-tickets-41184849995 CESI TeachMeet Friday 2nd March, DCU St. Patrick’s Campus Please note: tickets for the CESI TeachMeet are limited and are sold on a ‘first […]
The 2017 Bebras Challenge will take place from 6th – 17th November, run by the ICS Foundation, the Bebras® Computing Challenge introduces computational thinking and computer science to students aged 8-18 years, by allowing them to solve interactive tasks online. It is run in over 30 countries and takes place every November, where you […]
Europe Code Week is a grassroots initiative which aims to bring coding and digital literacy to everybody in a fun and engaging way. It runs from 7-22 October 2017. Last year’s event included over 23,000 events that took place in 50 countries, and this year aims to see even more. For more, go to http://codeweek.eu
On 16th September 2017 the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) hosted a symposium on the proposed new Leaving Certificate Computer Science course. The event took place at Maynooth University and was attended by almost one hundred and twenty interested parties. The full report for this event can be found at this link: CESI LC […]
In advance of the CESI symposium at Maynooth on September 16th 2017, this blog post reports some of the issues that came up at CESI conference in March 2017. The session ‘Computing in the Irish Curriculum’ offered participants the opportunity to propose their issues for discussion on this theme, stimulated by the news that a […]
Save the Date – Saturday September 16th, Maynooth University To register for this event, please click here In February 2017 CESI, the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI), welcomed the announcement of the intended introduction of Computer Science as a Leaving Certificate subject, and we support Minister Richard Bruton’s aim to have Computer Science as […]
The CESI National Conference took place with its usual aplomb at the DCU Institute of Education in Drumcondra just last month. A new addition to this year’s proceedings was the awarding of the Bianca Ni Ghrógain Memorial Award sponsored by the Irish Research Council (IRC). It was a bitter sweet occasion as the wider CESI […]
MONDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CESI WELCOMES COMPUTER SCIENCE AT LEAVING CERTIFICATE CESI, the Computers in Education Society of Ireland, welcomes the intended introduction of Computer Science as a Leaving Certificate subject and we support Minister Richard Bruton’s aim to have Computer Science as an option for Leaving Certificate students by 2018. CESI […]
CESI is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications for the Bianca Ní Ghrógáin Memorial Award sponsored by the Irish Research Council (IRC). Bianca, formerly an inspirational teacher at Griffeen Valley Educate Together Primary School and IRC Phd scholar at Dublin City University, was an invaluable and highly regarded member of the CESI […]
CESI is generously supported by Teacher Professional Networks (TPN)