NCCA Key Skills

The NCCA has developed a framework of five skills identified as central to teaching and learning across the curriculum at senior cycle. The key skills enable students to participate fully in society, including family life, the world of work and lifelong learning. As students develop in each of the key skills they will grow in their knowledge about and skills in learning in general and their own learning in particular.

For more information, go to the NCCA website.

What do "Digital Natives" look like?

Young people today are sometimes described as being "digital natives", a phrase coined by Marc Prensky (Digital native wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_native).

Ever wondered what a digital native looks like or how they behave? This video "A Vision of Students Today" provides an insight into how sudents are using technology and multitasking, even when they are "supposed to be " watching the blackboard. See for yourself....


(Thanks to Brick Meier)

Learning To Change

For months, we have been looking for something which encapsulates what 21st Century Learning is all about. This video "Learning to Change" produced by Pearsons brings together some of the leading advocates in this area. Please watch it:


(Thanks to Cliff Brown)