Our mission is simple. To get all Primary and Post-Primary schools, along with Educational Centres delivering computing and coding modules to their students. Enabling students to understand essential modern life skills. If you or your entity need any aid with Computer Science (CS) or Information Communication Technology (ICT) training, resource development or implementation: Contact Us: trevor@computingatschools.ie or Office 053-9156757 – Mobile 087-6873933.
These courses are open and applicable to Primary and Post-Primary Teachers, Further Education Sector, NLN, YouthReach and YouthTrain Tutors.
We are offering the follwing Off-Site and Summer Computer Science Teacher CPD course for the first half 2020 academic year. Please scroll down to see all individual course details and booking links.
Principals and teachers have a duty of care to take reasonable steps to protect students from any harm that should have reasonably been foreseen, including those that may be encountered within the online learning environment.
Teachers can potentially be exposed to huge amounts of cyber risk which can, therefore, impact on the school’s reputation, harm their careers and have adverse effects on their students. This workshop was developed to educate Teacher about modern practises ensuring their online safety.
While advances in technology have created opportunities to engage students in the classroom in new and exciting ways they also present significant challenges.
Workshop Objective for Teacher:
Resources Material for Students: Cyberbullying, Inappropriate Content, Sexting, Sextortion/Ransomware, Oversharing, Online Predation.
Locations: Venue: Dates: Day: Time
Dublin Talbot Hotel Stillorgan 29th February 2020 Saturday 10:30 to 15:00
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Wexford Sarsfield’s GAA Clubhouse 17th June 2020 Wednesday 10:30 to 15:00
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Bring your laptop.
This one day course will be run on a Saturday to facilitate teachers and principals to travel and give the attendees the tools, skills and confidence to:
What will be covered?
Locations: Venue: Dates: Day: Time
Dublin Talbot Hotel Stillorgan 21st March 2020 Saturday 10:30 to 15:00
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This one day course will be run to facilitate teachers and principals to travel and give the attendees the tools, skills and confidence to:
What will be covered?
This one day course will be run on a Saturday to facilitate teachers and principals to travel and give the attendees the tools, skills, and confidence to:
What will be covered?
This one day course will be run on a Saturday to facilitate teachers and principals to travel and give the attendees the tools, skills, and confidence to:
What will be covered?
To get the most from the workshop you will need to download the following programmes onto your laptop:
Scratch 2.0 Offline, Notepad++ & Python all are available free from HERE
Cost: This 3-day programme will cost €450 per attendee and will be payable through Eventbrite or by direct online payment. Individual days are faciliated for at €175 per day.
Locations: Venue: Dates: Day: Time
Wexford Sarsfield GAA Clubhouse 10th – 12th June 2020 Wed – Fri 10:30 to 15:00
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Individual June Tickets
Day 1 – 10th June – Week 1 Phase 1 – Teacher Computer Science CPD Workshop – Book Click Here
Day 2 – 11th June – Week 1 Phase 2 – Introduction to HTML/CSS CPD Workshop – Book Click Here
Day 3 – 12th June – Week 1 Phase 3 – Introduction to Python Programming CPD Workshop – Book Click Here
Locations: Venue: Dates: Day: Time
Wexford Sarsfield GAA Clubhouse 22nd – 24th July 2020 Wed – Fri 10:30 to 15:00
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July Individual Tickets
Day 1 – 22nd July – Week 2 Phase 1 – Teacher Computer Science CPD Workshop – Book Click Here
Day 2 – 23th July – Week 2 Phase 2 – Introduction to HTML/CSS CPD Workshop – Book Click Here
Day 3 – 24th July – Week 2 Phase 3 – Introduction to Python Programming CPD Workshop – Book Click Here
Perfect for teachers who are presently delivering the JC and LC Computing courses.
Python is a widely used high-level programming language for general-purpose programming and is one of the most popular industry languages. This language is now the computer language used by all leading second and third level institutes. Due to teacher demand, we are running a 3-day workshop in Wexford just drop us an email for details.
Python is currently the most popular language for teaching introductory computer science courses at top-ranked U.S. Universities. Specifically, eight of the top 10 CS departments (80%), and 27 of the top 39 (69%) teach Python in introductory CS0 or CS1 courses.
Python is a general-purpose programming language created in the late 1980s and named after Monty Python, that’s used by thousands of people to do things from testing microchips at Intel to powering Instagram, to building video games with the PyGame library.
Cost: This three-day programme will cost €450 per attendee and will be payable through Eventbrite or by direct online payment.
Time: 10:30 to 15:00
You will need to download Python which available free from HERE
Locations: Venue: Dates:
Wexford Sarsfield’s Club House 24th to 26th June 2020
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NB. Invoices can be requested for any of the listed events, please forward a request to trevor@computingatschools.ie with billing details and the events you wish to attend.
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