Congratulations to Good Counsel College who won yesterday's IMTA Wexford Maths quiz and runners up FCJ Bunclody, both teams qualifying for the next stage.

Well done to all participants.

Thank you to Coláiste Bríde for hosting the event and all who helped on the day.

Still plenty of time to register for our upcoming Conference. Workshops below #Inclusion #edchatie Margaret Flood dr mags amond 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 NCSE CCPC Dr Flavia Santos Darren Russell Shannon Ahern Mr Math Weeney Sarah Porcenaluk Diarmaid Hyland Register: tinyurl.com/yvjre47w

Still plenty of time to register for our upcoming Conference. Workshops below #Inclusion #edchatie Oide Schools' Support Service, Ireland Oide Mathematics Post-Primary Brendan O'Sullivan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 Aoife OBrien Eoghan Long Ciara Mc Kevitt IAMTA EPISTEM The E.T.T.A ISTA Register: tinyurl.com/yvjre47w

Overview of programme for the annual conference of CESI.ie - Computers in Education Society of Ireland, taking place in ATU Galway on Sat 2nd March...

16:00 in the foyer
Coffee and departure

So, that was a flavour of what #CESIcon has in store for 2024 on the themes of Generative AI, Creativity in Computing, UDL & Inclusion - we look forward to seeing you there

14:00 - 16:00 in Room 1036, chair Conor Power

Monica Ward
Cipher - Faoi Gheasa: putting the fun in Irish in a digital game-based language learning app

John Hegarty
Raspberry Pi Pico as an Alternative to the BBC Microbit for LCCS ALT4

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14:00 - 16:00 in Room 1035, chair Elizabeth Oldham

Fionnuala Tynan
Teaching an Old Dog a New Trick: Personal Experience of Using Animation to Support Learning in HE

Pamela O’Brien
Learning from Exploring the Sustainable Development Goals Through Coding Project

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14:00 - 16:00 in Room 1040, chair John Heffernan

Leanne Griffin
Notability (iPad) - The Digital Whiteboard and Resource facilitator

Tom Lonergan
Digital Technology Infrastructure and Technical Support Workshop

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13:00 - 14:00 in the foyer

Long break - lunch

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12:00 - 13:00 in Room 1036, chair Kate Molloy

Mary Loftus Mary Loftus

Sarah-Jayne Carey Sarah-Jayne Carey

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12:00 - 13:00 in Room 1035, chair Mags Amond

Richard Millwood

Our Kids Code - Family Learning to Change Parents Attitudes to Computing

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12:00 - 13:00 in Room 994, chair Jennifer McGarry

Joe English
An Introduction to Leaving Certificate Computer Science (LCCS)

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11:15 - 12:00 in the foyer

Short break - coffee, conversation, catch-up

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10:15 - 11:45 & 12:00 - 13:00 in ATU Maker Space

Hassan Dabbagh
Introducing ATU Maker Space

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10:15 - 11:45 in Room 1036, chair Kate Molloy

Julianne Bergin
Implementing Assistive Technology in the Classroom, Using A Universal Design for Learning Approach

Trevor Boland
Compass - sharing an assistive technology resource with the Education community

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10:15 - 11:45 in Room 1035, chair Richard Millwood

Conor Griffin
Virtown - learning maths by building digital towns

Taina Lehtimäki
CT Obstacle Course - How to run a collaborative computational thinking activity in your school

Julie Power
Tangible Coding Game

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10:15 - 11:45 in Room 1040, chair Helen Kelly

Ciarán Cronin
AI in the Post Primary Classroom

Eleanor Byrne
Using Generative AI in the Maths Classroom

Edward Kelly
Crafting Generative AI Prompts: A Rapid Fire Demonstration

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9:30 in Room 994

Keynote - Professor Stephen Kinsella

“The Future of Software”

Stephen is Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick, Research Associate at the Rhodes Centre for International Finance at Brown University.

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Tidying my office today for sabbatical starting tomorrow (🥳🥳🥳), I found this 1980 national newspaper article about ‘the state of maths’!!! How times have(n’t) changed!!!

Great! A must read! Was one of the most important books for me and is still a source of inspiration today.