Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland

1:00 pm

Photo of Mary MoranMary Moran (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for attending. One of my reasons for inviting them was how impressed I was when I visited their base and saw the excellent work Camara Education was doing in ensuring ICT education, not just elsewhere in the world, but in Ireland.

I will address the three "statics" to which Senator O'Donnell referred. The survey dates from 2012. When I left my school in 2011, I did not have access to the Internet or a computer in my classroom. Actually, I had a computer, but it did not work. The picture in 2015 is different. Judging by the schools I visit, there seems to have been a major upsurge in the past three years. Do the witnesses have an update on the figures? We have moved on since 2012.

Will Mr. Daly expand on the issue of teacher training? How do schools become aware of Camara? Has it visited every school in Ireland?

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