Tagged: Edco & News
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Donegal school wins SmartClass digital education prize News
24.05.2012 One hundred and forty incoming first-year students at Loreto Community School in Milford, Co Donegal, are set to start studying their Junior Cert curriculum digitally this... -
Edco’s e-books could make textbooks a thing of the past News
24.05.2012 The full curriculum of post-primary schoolbooks for the next school year are available as e-books, as Edco now plans to tackle primary school editions.Categories: Web, Software Development, Software, Mobile, Internet, Finding a Job, Education, Digital Media, Computers, Apps, Application Design and DevelopmentTags: E-book Readers, E-books, Education, Software, Notebook, Laptops, iPad, Tablet Computers, Tablet, Edco -
Apple’s move into textbook business will be a game changer News
12.01.2012 All wags are waxing on about Apple launching into the education books business or the textbook business on 19 January at an event in the Guggenheim in New York. It is being... -
Education is the engine of future prosperity – Intel Ireland boss News
26.05.2011 The head of Intel Ireland, which employs 4,000 people in Ireland and which has invested €25m in boosting technology in Irish schools, said that while the nation’s education... -
The first Irish school to embrace e-books News
17.03.2011 A VEC secondary school in Longwood, Co Meath, has become the first Irish school to equip all its first-year students with laptops with e-books installed as part of an initiative...Categories: Wireless Communications, Multimedia, Mobility, Internet, Education, Digital Media, Computers -
Top tools for classroom tech News
03.02.2011 Having the hardware is only the first step in creating smart schools. LAURA O’BRIEN looks at some online resources and software tools to help ensure that every lesson and... -
Content of substance News
02.02.2011 Before everyone gets hung up on the hardware, the real gift of technology is the kaleidoscope of content that can be brought into the classroom and the home and usher in a... -
Laying the foundations for the schools of tomorrow News
02.02.2011 As the first 100Mbps digital schools were unveiled, former communications minister, Eamon Ryan TD, said 600 more schools are due to get essential broadband capacity.Categories: Web, Telecommunications, Networks, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Government, Education -
Martina Harford, chief executive, The Educational Company of Ireland News
03.02.2011 Back in the early 2000s when there was a large amount of money also put into ICT in education, the momentum was lost and unfortunately we’re playing catch-up now. -
The teaching profession and the digital opportunity News
02.02.2011 Teachers have as much to gain as their students from the onset of digital education. The opportunity to grow personally and professionally is at their fingertips.