As we mentioned in the previous post we’ve been working recently with NUIM and the Young Scientist Tanzania project. Well, it was an absolute delight on Tuesday to finally meet the Kibosho girls in Maynooth.
With a hectic schedule for the week they were on a whirlwind tour through the University and only had an hour to spend on MissionV training. But we were amazed and delighted by what they achieved in that time, developing a wonderful model of the …
Following discussions we held earlier this year with the Education Department NUI Maynooth we developed a new initiative in collaboration with Angela Rickard, who lectures on Ed Tech in that department. Angela wanted to introduce her students to creative, alternative ways to teach and learn science and to integrate development education themes into the Science Education undergraduate program. Working together we developed a project entitled NOW: Navigating Other Worlds (for which Angela was awarded a Teaching Fellowship from the university). …
MissionV’s Margaret Keane has written a new guest article for the TeachNet Blog entitled, “Should Coding be made Compulsory in Irish Schools?“
“So am I saying it should be compulsory? Compulsory suggests shackles, a standalone subject that is ring fenced; an approach which has plagued the development of IT in education in Ireland. Coding and indeed technology when used in a teaching context should be fully integrated and embedded into the curriculum. In other words it’s not enough learning to …
We’ve launched our campaign to raise the funds to run the MissionV programme in 38 schools from November 2012 to June 2013. Please help spread the word and/or make a pledge if you can, on our Fundit page.
Courtesy of: Online Schools
Our two favourite events of the conferencing calendar are the CESI and ICT in Education events. So it’s great to hear from Pamela O’Brien, co-organizer of the latter, that they are going to start extending the reach of the conference past May with a couple of interesting new initiatives.
The first of those is a set of workshops to be held in Thurles on Saturday 22nd of September in the area of social media. These will be delivered by Nick …
The video below was created by a 4th year (secondary, 15 years old) student at The European School Brussels II. She was part of a team of 5 students who learned how to create a virtual world to show the Water Cycle. And we’re delighted that they chose to use MissionV in what is our first project outside of Ireland.
The students completed the project as part of the Microsoft Pathfinder school initiative based around the idea of water. The …
Dr. Conor Galvin of the UCD School of Education and Lifelong learning was asked to provide a research assessment of the MissionV pilot programme and its impact. That report will be published in October but in the meantime Dr. Galvin and his Research Associate, Ms Isobel Burke, have just published a 6 page note outlining their key findings.
The full document can be downloaded in PDF format or DOC format but we’d like to highlight, below, some sections that we found …
The Good News: 48 schools have now applied for Year 2 of the MissionV Programme. Needless to say we’re absolutely thrilled about this – it’s an enormous vote of confidence in the value of MissionV. However…
The Bad News: This year has seen budgets cut significantly and we are operating in a very challenging funding environment. As a result we’ve had to get creative . . .
So, MissionV is excited to announce that we will soon be running a funding campaign through Fundit. …
Catherine Cronin is academic coordinator of online IT programs & lecturer in IT, at the National University of Ireland, Galway. With the help of Mark Glynn and Fred Boss she has compiled a wonderful video entitled ‘New ways of learning: Ireland 2012‘ (and we’re not just saying that because MissionV was honoured to be included). Thanks Catherine!
