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Some thoughts I have on data and the implications about how it might be used against us or the students we teach. This is not a negative piece - it is simply awareness-raising!

Some thoughts on WordPress projects my 1st Year (about 7th Grade) students are doing right now...

This will be of interest to history and geography teachers and to that group of people who are calling themselves digital humanists! For anyone of Irish Ancestry the 350 year old digitised maps are a must!

My reflections on the Google I/O and Education. this post has got a lot of interest especially in Australia. I make the point..."This is the real work of education - helping people take control of their lives and realising that in these still early days of the online world, we are being pushed and pushed into vistas that may be limited."

Schools must regard 100Mbps Broadband not as an opportunity to do existing things faster, but to do new things altogether. These are things that some of our students are doing at home (and occasionally in school) - creating music, animations, sound, music, programming, curating, remixing - that should be given a voice and a place in our schools. this type of work will help support at least four of Hargreaves gateways: Learning to Learn, Assessment for Learning, New Technologies (ICT) and Student Voice.

SMILE - Social Media in Learning & Education - A short update on my involvement in this project from European Schoolnet supported by a Digital Citizenship Research Grant from Facebook.

Some further thoughts on ORACY....a person's ability to efficiently communicate with others via the spoken word as well as to fully understand oral communication

Some thoughts on eBooks after an interview with Audrey Niffeneger developed into a discussion of same!

This is a blog I wrote after I read an academic article 'Power on': Googlecracy, privatisation and the standardisation of sources (Souto-Otero and Beneito-Montagut 2013). I have related the article to teachers in the Second Level (high-school) system of education.

"The classics are part of my mental toolset…" is a response to the article in WIRED magazine about the publisher Tim O' Reilly being a Classics graduate...the study of the Classics in Secondary/high school is as relevant as ever!

Some personal and professional thoughts on cyber-bullying as a secondary/high-school teacher in Ireland.

Thinklink example.  This looks to be a really powerful tool for making interactive websites.

Can you enforce a policy for parents/guardians of school-children? i would like to hear your answers. Thank you!

One of the speakers at TedxDublin spoke engagingly about the importance of Fundamental Science. I ask - What is fundamental education?

Report from Ireland on improving Second Level (High School) education.

A Irish teachers opinion on the technical requirements of teachers involved in online learning environments and other thoughts....