Projects &
Initiatives

The Digital Learning Planning website and the interactive Digital Learning Framework assist schools in identifying areas for digital learning development and improvement. Standards of effective and highly effective practice are mapped to video exemplars.

Webwise is the Irish Internet Safety Awareness Centre. It promotes the autonomous, effective, and safer use of the internet by young people through information and awareness programmes targeting parents, teachers, and children.

The Department of Education's official portal for teachers and schools. Managed by Oide Technology in Education it works with practising teachers to provide open education resources for teaching and learning.

An innovative film project for primary schools that explores film and animation as a medium of expression. The FÍS film project was established in 2000 and culminates each year in an Oscars-type ceremony at the Helix in Dublin.

Promotes the use of formative assessment practices in schools and supports schools when implementing digital portfolio use with students. Supports available for Primary and Post-Primary.

The Digital Citizenship Champion (DCC) programme, in collaboration with Webwise is designed to equip primary teachers with essential knowledge, skills, and resources to effectively teach digital citizenship. It focuses on promoting safe, ethical, and responsible online behaviour, covering key areas such as digital literacy, online wellbeing and privacy.

The BRICS project, involving teachers and children from 14 primary schools in the Midlands region, aims to engage children from 3rd to 6th class in real-world integrated STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) learning.

DALI4US (Data Literacy for Upper Primary Schools) aims to equip primary school teachers with the necessary confidence, knowledge, skills, and attitudes to teach data literacy effectively.

Repurposing Education through Blended Learning (REBEL) is an Erasmus+ project run across two EU countries that supports the adoption of digital technologies and innovative and open pedagogies in education and training.

What is Artificial Intelligence or AI, and what are the implications for teachers and students? In this section we aim to provide some key information and resources to help your understanding of this key topic and showcase some of our work in this area.

Digital Collaboratives - Teachers coming together to share their practice and assist one another to develop competence and confidence when using digital technologies.

Schools group together in clusters to plan and implement a digital technologies or STEM focused three year project. The projects are innovative and creative by design and have developed and enhanced inter-school links as well as student engagement.

A group comprising representatives of seven European Ministries of Education, including Ireland, the Interactive Classroom Working group explores common areas of concern on the integration of digital technologies in teaching, learning and assessment.