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Reconceptualising relatedness in education in ‘Distanced’ times
(Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) and Routledge, 2020-08-12)
As schools and universities worldwide tentatively move beyond an initial emergency response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the prospect of socially-distanced learning spaces prompts us to ask how we can maintain good educational ...
A fusion of research-informed teaching and teaching-informed research: Designing a scalable online ecosystem for new partnerships in educational research
(Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2020-10-26)
This paper examines the unbundling of research in the context of the Teachers Research Exchange (T-REX) platform, the national flagship Internet platform in Ireland for teachers to access, use and engage in research. This ...
Research informed teaching in a global pandemic: Opening up schools to research
(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2020-06)
In the last decade, teacher research has grown in importance across the three i s of the teacher education continuum: initial, induction and in-service. This has been brought into even starker relief with the global spread ...
Education in precarious times: a comparative study across six countries to identify design priorities for mobile learning in a pandemic
(Emerald, 2020-06-25)
Similar to the current global Coronavirus crisis, the flu pandemic of 1918 forced the closure internationally of schools, and in general brought a halt to formal education.
A major difference between then and now is that ...
Bridging worlds: New learning spaces for new times: Evaluation Report
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland Galway, 2021)
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Diving deep into numeracy, cross-curricular professional development
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-10-18)
The numerical ability of Irish students in international and national assessments is weaker than for literacy, particularly among higher-performing students. The aim of this study was to design a national teacher professional ...
Developing and assessing computational thinking in secondary education using a TPACK guided scratch visual execution environment
(International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools (IJCSES), 2021-05-18)
Effective and reliable assessment approaches to computational thinking in secondary education are in demand. This paper uses a guided technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) framework, incorporating a visual ...
Teacher agency and learner agency in teaching and learning a new school subject, Leaving Certificate Computer Science, in Ireland: Considerations for teacher education
(Elsevier, 2021-07-30)
A new school subject, Leaving Certificate Computer Science, was introduced in September 2018 into Irish schools in a period of curriculum reform and change. Drawing on concepts of teacher agency and learner agency, and ...
Analysis of three methodological approaches in the use of gamification in vocational training
(MDPI, 2021-07-28)
A reduced interest and low motivation in learning amongst vocational students has become a challenge with many traditional strategies not capable of providing a solution to motivation and encouraging participation in ...
The effects of a visual execution environment and makey makey on primary school children learning introductory programming concepts
(IEEE, 2020-12-01)
The interest of children in learning to program computers has increased dramatically in recent years with the adaptation of new programming languages such as Scratch or game-based approaches. That being so, it is still ...