NEW CONTENT DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

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’