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**Empowering Content Creation in Irish Education**

This breakout group discussion outlines strategies to stimulate the development of new educational content in Irish schools. Topics include funding, policy development, and engaging stakeholders for effective content creation. Priority areas identified include language content, literacy resources, and involvement of various stakeholders. The challenges and potential solutions in developing new content, including accessing funding, coordinating expertise, and market limitations, are also addressed. The overarching goal is to create engaging and meaningful educational resources for Irish schools.

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**Empowering Content Creation in Irish Education**

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  1. NEW CONTENT DEVELOPMENT ISSUES Break-out group 3

  2. How to stimulate creation of new content • Source Funding/Investment • Identify needs • Provide for Teacher: • preservice • inservice - Colleges of Education + Universities (Faculty of Education) • communication (awareness) • Policy Development

  3. How to stimulate creation of new content ….contd • Policy - Q. who is to create educational content? • Need to train content experts: • authoring tools • Middle ware • Digitise existing educational content • Creation of Multimedia content by teachers and students • e.g “Intel teach to the future” teacher training programme • Create language independent courseware - to market elsewhere

  4. How to stimulate creation of new content ….contd • Government needs to create the right environment for Partnership model • Students/teachers need to be consulted at all stages of development

  5. PRIORITY AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CONTENT • Language content - to teach Irish • must be: • communicative/interactive • meaningful (educationally) • incorporate fun element • provide for dialects • Training for teachers ‘as Gaeilge’

  6. PRIORITY AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CONTENT ...contd. • Provide educational resources in following areas: • gramadach na gaeilge • spell-check facilities • Full dictionary capability • Language Awareness Programmes • context of 1st/2nd language

  7. PRIORITY AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CONTENT ... • Content for Literacy • pre-reading • reading • special needs provision • writing process • Gaelscoileanna / Irish Medium Schools • Broad subject specific needs (local adaption provision) • e.g Science (Primary/post-primary), Atlas

  8. WHO SHOULD BE INVOLVED • Teachers • Students • Evaluators • Parents • Native Speakers • Writers • Publishers • Language Researchers • Subject area spec. • S’ware developers • Educ. technologists

  9. WHO SHOULD BE INVOLVED • NCCA • DES • ITÉ • Graphic/sound/audio designers • Pvte. Pub p’ships • Govt. agencies • Euro funded initiatives • Foras na Gaeilge • Conradh na Gaeilge • N.C.T.E. • Údaras na Gaeltachta • Minority language expeniences/experts abroad

  10. How to distribute to all schools and particularly Irish Medium Schools • Bulk purchase - DES • difficulty of 4,000 customers • Ongoing school grants • Web based distribution • Communication/information to teachers • more training • evaluation methodologies • Education Centres • - (Coláiste Íosagáin)

  11. How to distribute to all schools and particularly Irish Medium Schools • Primary CurriculumSupport Programme • vehicle for information provision • Software grants for s’ware only • “Bundles” with new machines - • Govt. guidelines re. Subject targeting (Gaeilge) • National Software database

  12. THE POTENTIAL CHALLENGES IN DEVELOPING NEW CONTENT • Accessing Funding • Accessing the right expertise: • Design • Software engineering • Pedagogy • Need for co-ordination • reduce duplication • teacher awareness, pre/inservice

  13. THE POTENTIAL CHALLENGES IN DEVELOPING NEW CONTENT • Limited Market • Time/Keeping abreast of change • Synchronise ICT planning and development in tandem with curricular change • Prioritisation of CONTENT • Multi-market scenario • Irish speakers/learners dialect issues

  14. THE POTENTIAL CHALLENGES IN DEVELOPING NEW CONTENT • Maintaining balance between: • cross-curricular provision • attractive • relevant • child & teacher friendly • National Marketing Strategy • suitability for home market

  15. Focal Scoir • “Today we will hear the vision - we need now to create the commitment” • ‘Tús maith leath na hoibre’

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