#CESIcon, the annual conference of CESI.ie - Computers in Education Society of Ireland - takes place ATU Galway on Sat 2nd March - here's a slow 🧵 through the program:
8:30 - Registration
Welcome - co-chair Kate Molloy
Opening - ATU President Orla Flynn
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ALT a drawing of a hand holding a digital device showing the needle of a directional compass pointing West North West, beside an uppercase legend that reads NAVINGATING DIGITAL FUTURES
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
ALT a flier for a conference callled Navigating Digital Futures in Galway on March 2rd with themes of Generative AI, Creativity in Computing, UDL & Inclusion, cost is 25 euro
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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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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