The Thin Client Wireless Broadband Network Proejct in the Irish Primary School Sector - An analysis of Baseline Data

Miriam Judge

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 145–153

The Thin Client wireless broadband project, is a pilot initiative involving a cluster of nine primary schools based in North County Dublin, Ireland. It is a four year project designed to investigate firstly, the extent to which a centrally managed...

Topics: Educational Technology, Developmental Stages, Schools, Information Communication Technologies, Networking Technologies

Mapping out the ICT Integration Terrain in the School Context: Identifying the Challenges in an Innovative Project

Miriam Judge

Irish Educational Studies Vol. 32, No. 3 (2013) pp. 309–333

This article discusses the research findings from the start-up phase of an innovative information and communication technology (ICT) project focused on ICT integration as a complex process involving many factors such as leadership, school readiness...

Cláir Bhána Idirghníomhacha’ ( Interactive Whiteboards) – Early findings from an Irish Project

Miriam Judge

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 92–99

This paper discusses the early findings from the first Interactive Whiteboard Project in the Irish school system. The project involves eight schools comprising primary schools, post primary schools, a special school for the deaf and an all Irish...

Topics: Teachers, Interaction, Developmental Stages, Schools

Introducing ICT into irish schools. A case study report - Interim Findings

Miriam Judge

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 898–899

In terms of education technology the Irish education system is a late developer. Unlike the U.K. and the U.S.A., where computers have been available in schools since the early 1980's, the entire first and second level school system had remained...

Topics: Schools, Computers, Educational Technology

Learning in the Covid-19 crisis: A Cross-cultural Alignment Model

Miri Shonfeld; Melda Yildiz; Miriam Judge

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2020 (Jun 23, 2020) pp. 1152–1155

The recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about extensive and rapid changes to education systems worldwide as schools and colleges were closed. Consequently, many countries faced the challenge of an unanticipated and accelerated move...

Topics: E-learning/E-training

Digital Agency: Empowering Equity in and through Education

Don Passey; Miri Shonfeld; Lon Appleby; Miriam Judge; Toshinori Saito; Anneke Smits

Technology, Knowledge and Learning Vol. 23, No. 3 (2018) pp. 425–439

This theoretical paper is concerned with conceptualising a major issue that faces all those concerned with and charged with influencing the future of equity in education--the need for digital agency (DA). The paper offers a rationale for this...