The Digital Skills project, funded by the North East Inner City Initiative, is a collaboration between the Dublin City Public Libraries & CoderDojo Foundation.
It's #stemcamp week here in #dlrLexIcon as our 2019 Stem Camp begins on Thursday. Over 60 TY students join us for an 8 week course so stay tuned for our regular updates charting their innovation, exploration and creation. @leo_dlr @scienceirel @SmartFuturesIE@dlrcc
Despite some large school districts investing into #tech in every classroom, academic results have slipped. Now parents are pushing schools to offer low- or screen-free classrooms. https://t.co/GzDLBnkmsL
Yesterday, we received a very interesting and useful book!: Micro:Bit for mad scientists by @simonmonk2 !
It is very well written, colourful and the @microbit_edu projects presented are cleverly chosen! For sure a book Avye will dig in to!
Sharing apps can carpool you to work, rake leaves from your garden, and pick up milk from the shop--but would you use it to mind your children? KidNest thinks so. https://t.co/GsjLkrGxG6
"Students don't need to be fixed. They need teachers who make data-informed instructional decisions to match best practices to students' needs," writes @cvjalexander @edutopia https://t.co/Rf5Os98OLZ #edchat#spedchat#inclusion#strengthsbased
We're honored to have received this recognition for CLIx, a long-term project that has scaled quality education to schools throughout India with meaningful use of new media and digital technologies in resource-constrained areas. https://t.co/J2gPLCWUcN
Amnesty International have been recognising schoolchildren across the world who have taken part in schools climate strike, today @CillianSherlock went to meet the young Irish climate activists who received the award. @AmnestyIreland
Early Learning by @worldbookinc is a fully immersive, educational experience for young learners and is now LIVE!
This is a fun FREE resource for Dublin City Libraries members, suited to pre-school age children and children in early years of primary school https://t.co/JsJC6Zf6jZ
Help make our projects available in children’s local languages!
Volunteering as a translator is flexible, and you don’t need any previous experience 💯🌍
https://t.co/ZomrtxzjW6
#RPiTranslate#RaspberryPi#CoderDojo
Oh no! Katie Byrne: 'Is tech killing everyone's imagination?' Study shows "fewer children have invisible friends than they did five years ago...respondents attributed the decline to the rise of #technology." https://t.co/JU5Udg9jFY
Our fall speaker series kicks off next Thursday! We're happy to welcome back Christopher Weaver, who will discuss "how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation, childhood education, and medicine." https://t.co/wKKYiVulyk
The first "What's Going on this Graph?" for the school year focuses on hurricane path projections & the cone of uncertainty.
Teachers, help your students better understand & critically interpret graphs!
https://t.co/naS90rUK0u
@NYTimesLearning@ThisisStats