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Exploring EdTech is a digital news hub, aiming to inspire primary and second-level teachers and school leaders to embrace education technologies in their teaching practice, by seeing best practice in other schools and in use by teaching colleagues, through tutorials and reviewing, presenting new and emerging technologies that may assist in teaching and learning.
Exploring EdTech is published in association with the EdTech Ireland Network, the national organisation for the Education Technology sector.
Why Explore EdTech?
Exploring EdTech came about as a direct result of the COVID Lockdowns when schools were closed, and home-schooling and remote learning became necessary. It was recognised that Teachers and schools would need considerable support in order to deliver quality online learning solutions for their students and so that teachers could deliver this, using best practices.
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When in-person teaching got back to normal, the gains that were made in the use of education technology were recognised and many schools continue to develop pro-active technology in education policies. To assist schools and educators in keeping up to date in the broad and ever-changing field of education technology, the founding team developed the idea of publishing a digital magazine which would add to existing CPD offerings across the country and kick-start additional interest and among teachers and school leaders at Primary and Second Level in Ireland.
This idea led to several education technologists under the stewardship of Tim Lavery, working together to create a free digital publishing channel just for teachers, with the first issue of Exploring EdTech being published in March 2021. Subsequently, the team of volunteers has published 11 issues.
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Exploring EdTech magazine is digital by design, we don't produce print copies. We publish our magazine on our exploringedtech.ie website.
Our writers and contributors include academic researchers, technology experts and practising teachers who share their experience and expertise in the field. We have had a great response from educators across Ireland and we have received requests to extend the publication to the rest of Europe, our readership downloads have regularly exceeded 2,000. We are working to build an ambassador programme in schools during 2025/26 so that everyone can benefit from Exploring EdTech and not just the tremendous tech-savvy teachers who have been ardent supporters of the project over the past four years.
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We are always looking for new and exciting EdTech, stories and features. Get in touch if you'd like to join the team.
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