We went along to the ICT in Education conference at L.I.T. Thurles on Saturday and it was as inspiring as always. For four years now we’ve been attending and still it manages to surprise and delight.
Key to that this year was the choice of Ira Socol and Pam Moran as keynote speakers. Although, to call them keynote speakers is to disguise what made their presentation so good – in reality they led a very interactive ’round-table’ discussion on Learning Spaces, …
We were delighted to see that one of the schools on our programme – Dromore N.S. in Co. Donegal – made the news on the Finn Valley Voice.
Principal Mary McGranaghan fully agrees with the ethos of MissionV ‘to inspire and engage children in their learning, particularly those who are at risk of significantly underachieving, through the use of game-based learning initiatives. ‘
See the full article below –
We’re delighted to announce that applications are now open for the MissionV Programme Year 2 (MVPY2). For more details please visit the Applications page.
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Titanic simulation
Thanks to the amazing generosity of Stiofain MacTomais at 3DColab we have been able to import their incredible Titanic simulation (which includes the Harland and Wolff shipyard) into MissionV so that the students on our programme can now take a virtual tour of the iconic boat.
Here’s a short video which gives an idea of the scale of the simulation. I have to say, walking down the luxurious stairs into the ballroom gave me a weird sense of deja vu …
Caine’s Arcade is the (true) story of a 9 year old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto part store.
Caine’s Arcade from Nirvan Mullick on Vimeo.
The heartwarming video has gone viral and attracted a lot of commentary from educators but none more pertinent than this blog post by Ira Socol.
“As you watch this short film, you will see what children are capable of when they are given space for their imaginations …
We’re delighted to have been featured on the cover of this month’s Innovation Ireland ezine from IDA Ireland.
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Yesterday we attended the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Bootcamp in Dublin and the first thing that struck us as we drove towards the pleasingly quirky egg-shaped edifice at the DCU Ryan Academy Citywest was how wonderful it was to have a cloudless blue sky for the second year in a row (this was our second time being fortunate enough to get down to the final 40 list of candidates for the awards programme).
Were the event being held in any old venue one …
Opensimulator is the virtual world platform underlying MissionV. In a big endorsement of the system….
“The metro Atlanta district, with 35 schools and 38,000 students, is the first major school system in the nation to offer a 3-D virtual world environment to every classroom teacher.”
“Because users may create anything they can imagine, a virtual world is an excellence tool for creativity, construction, role playing, experimentation and learning to work with others.”
Dr. Conor Galvin is a lecturer and researcher at UCD School of Education & Lifelong Learning where he works on various education, ICT, public policy and research methods programmes. He is currently carrying out an evaluation of the MissionV 20 school programme and has now published an interim report. Here follow a few quotes from that report –
“MissionV is a success story of creativity and innovation in an educational setting. The project already provides impressive proof of concept and …
Mr. Stephen Devlin at Scoil Mhuire Gan Smal teaches his students mathematics using MissionV. Here the children are running progams they wrote in Scratch to have turtles trace out various shapes according to the applied angle. Of course the inspiration comes from the turtles in the Logo programming language developed by Seymour Papert for education.
