Children, Educators,

Technology

…. and Parents?

http://www.nuigalway.ie/itonline/

I teach& learnonline

I teach and learn from students in a classroom without walls. Space and time work differently here. It’s highly participatory and students teach and learn too.

I workonline

Today I worked with half-a-dozen IT people across the UK and the US to fix a serverIt’s unlikely that I will ever meet them face-to-face. This virtual world is very real.

A Digital Resident?

How do we guide our children to deal with this world and thrive in it? Work, connect, play, live…

“It’s your kids, Marty

Something’s got to be done about your kids!”

- Doc BrownBack to the Future II

Teachers are doing it!

http://www.cesi.ie

“The biggest threat on the Internet today is parents that are not involved in their children's use of technology”

Judi Warren, President of Web Wise Kids

What AboutParents?

Pamela O’Brien

School/area: LimerickNenaghThurles

Project: CoderDojoSaturday coding course

@coderdojolim @coderdojothurle @coderdojonenagh

Pic: Pamela O’Brien

Conor O’Neill

School: Bandon, Co.Cork

Project: After-school Scratch course

Picked up by MIT App Inventor Site

http://appinventoredu.mit.edu/stories/after-school-app-inventor-ireland

Pic: Conor O’Neill

Michael Madden

School/area: Athenry

Project: CoderDojo Saturday codingcourse

Pilot CS Curriculum with Secondary School

@coderdojoathenr

Pic: Michael Madden

Catherine Cronin

School: Gort CS

Project: Internet Safety Course run by Parents in school

http://ourchildrenonline.pbworks.com/

Save our Schools

School: Castlerock N.S. Co. Sligo

Project: teachers and parents filled a coach with parents & children and stormed the Dail

St Patrick’s Day Parade

School: Castlerock N.S. Co. Sligo

Project: Don’t sink our schools – parents & teachers co-production

So, parents are doing it!How do we do more together? Make the jump…

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Parents,Children,

Educators, Technology

working together

to create better lives and communities for all

of us- online & offline

Pic by Alain Bachellier