An innovative scheme promoting excellence in digital learning and teaching, and aimed at equipping pupils with cutting-edge digital skills, is set to be offered to Irish secondary schools.
The Digital Schools Awards Ireland is an industry backed initiative to encourage schools to integrate digital skills across the curriculum.
Building on the aims and processes of the Irish government’s ‘Digital Learning Framework for Post-Primary Schools’, participating schools and teachers are invited to self-assess their developments in digital technology under the two areas of Leadership and Management, and Teaching and Learning.
The Digital Schools Award is recognition to schools and teachers that are committed to identifying and achieving effective practice in making digital technologies part of curriculum.
The programme is free and post primary schools across Ireland can register and find out more about becoming a digital school.
The programme is supported by HP, Microsoft and Intel in Ireland.
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Testimonials
Becoming a Digital School of Distinction is a tremendous honour for our school and has already brought us significant benefits. Our focus is on the continued integration of ICT to enhance our curriculum and benefit the pupils, getting the most from technology and providing opportunities for our teaching staff to develop their ICT skills. The whole school is excited about the opportunities that becoming a Digital School offers us.
The Department’s Digital Strategy for Schools Action Plan is backed by a €210million capital investment programme and is key to our schools being part of the best education systems in Europe.
This Digital Schools Award, backed by industry, will further support schools in embedding digital technologies in all aspects of their activities, and help ensure that good practice is captured and shared among the teaching community.
I welcome the support of HP Ireland, Microsoft Ireland and Intel in driving this initiative.
As a company we’re working at both ends of the system. We’re engaging students through our dedicated education and innovation hub at our campus, DreamSpace, opening their minds to the opportunities technology can provide them with.
With teachers we’re supporting training and development at our newly opened education suite, and also directly with our partners, DCU and UCD. Through this work we’re constantly inspired by the leadership approach teachers around the country are taking to future-proof their schools and ensure students and teachers have the digital know-how to excel in the classroom of the future
HP believes that the technology sector has a responsibility to support schools and ensure that the next generation is equipped with the knowledge needed to close the STEM and creative skills gap, and drive the economy of tomorrow. Being recognised as a Digital School is a great achievement and an important milestone. We congratulate the 21 schools receiving awards today.
We, as an industry, are committed to helping ensure that young people have the skills necessary to thrive as digital citizens – both in the workplace and wider society. We are proud to support the aims of the Department of Education’s Digital Learning Framework and, through the awards, provide recognition to the schools and teachers committed to making digital technologies part of teaching and learning in the curriculum.