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Our KA1, EU Erasmus+ Continuous Professional Development Courses for Teachers and
Whole-School Communities

21 Century STEM, STEAM and STREAMS Education

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Our STREAMS education platform and design for learning model ©, beyond STEM and STEAM, and its central role in the 4th & 5th Industrial Revolutions (4IR/5IR Industry 5.0) and Beyond in schools and society, incorporating Intelligent AI and AIoT, brings New and Exciting dimensions to creativity, innovation, humanology and humanocracy as we embrace the Future of Now.

​This CPD experience will bring a whole new Dimension and mindset to Digital and Green, Wellbeing, #SDGs and Sustainable Digital and Green schools and their communities.
Upcoming Course Dates: Autumn 2023

21 Century Literacy, Multi Literacies and Well-Being​

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21 Century literacies and multi-literacies necessitate a willingness to constantly learn, unlearn, re-learn, adapt to and embrace the many evolving areas of  life literacies, subject literacies, environmental literacies,              inter/intrapersonal, Emotional literacies, and media literacies, among others.
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​Come with us on this journey into Self and 21 Century Multi-literacies!
Upcoming Course Dates: Sep/Oct 2023

Digital Literacy, Well-Being & Consciousness

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Digital wellbeing is a term used to describe the impact of technologies and digital services on people's mental, physical, social and emotional health. Nurturing emotional well-being, consciousness, digital skills, digital literacy and resilience in teachers and students is essential therefore to ensure they become confident, empathetic, proactive and productive citizens. Education systems around the world should therefore take a holistic and integrative approach towards digital literacy, consciousness and well-being, taking into account factors that can negatively affect consciousness, well-being, equity of opportunity, literacy, information, disadvantage, and inclusion in online and offline spaces. 

​This CPD experience will explore in detail the daily reality of Digital Literacy Consciousness and Wellbeing in schools and explore strategies, pathways and frameworks to empower self and the wider school-communities in sustainable ways.
Upcoming Course Dates: Sep/Oct 2023​

Emerging Technologies and Transformative Classrooms

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Augmented, virtual, and mixed reality, robotics and AI, Digital Revolution, and Cybersecurity, among others are examples of transformative technologies that enhance teacher instruction and learning when meaningfully utilised and integrated, while simultaneously creating immersive and authentic lessons that are fun and engaging for the student. Emerging technologies have the capability of bringing the outside world into the classroom and vice versa and challenge us to transform our learning environments in an inclusive, sustainable, equitable, diverse and authentic manner by Designing For 21 Century teaching and learning.

This CPD experience will delve into the world of Emerging technologies and transformation in schools and classrooms and enable participants to immerse themselves in The Digital Revolution & The Future of Now.
  1. Upcoming Course Dates: Sep/Oct 2023​

Artificial Intelligence and 21 Century Schools

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With Artificial Intelligence (AI) making rapid inroads into the global education space, today’s teachers and students are as much in awe of AI as they are in general, keen on harnessing AI to enhance their personalised and collective understanding , and teaching and learning experiences. Before we acknowledge and accept AI as an 'invisible', 'pervasive', indispensable and effective learning tool, we need to first understand the learning process, and where and how AI may actually add value to 21 Century classrooms and schools. It is pointless having a Formula 1 car without the experienced driver,  racing track, correct fuel and appropriate knowledge of how to effectively and efficiently comprehend and drive it. 

This CPD experience will delve into the world of AI and 21 Century schools as we explore reality and potential of this often covert and hidden technology in classrooms. 
Upcoming Course Dates: Sep/Oct 2023

EFT Tapping and Self-Care for the Whole-School Community

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Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), more commonly known as tapping, is an emerging,research-based intervention that has been found to be an effective stress and anxiety management tool for students and school personnel. EFT uses cognitive behavior therapy techniques (CBT), such as awareness building, imaginal exposure, reframing of interpretation, and systematic desensitization, while teaching the individual to self-stimulate protocol-identified acupoints. The use of EFT with children and adolescents is relatively new.  EFT can play a major part in helping children release fear, anxiety, trauma, and doubt in a matter of minutes. EFT often produces results a lot more quickly with children, as they don't have the same amount of emotional baggage as adults.

This CPD experience will explore in practical ways,  the application of EFT with students and teachers in schools and in society, and examine and apply the reality and potential of this intervention in bringing an ease to the dis-ease of our daily lives through real-time applications.
Upcoming Course Dates: Sep/Oct 2023

Nature-Based Solutions Education, Creative and Digital Clusters, and Education for Sustainable Development 

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Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are defined by IUCN as “actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems, that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits”. 
NbS are also solutions inspired and supported by nature and ecosystems. As opposed to purely technological solutions, NbS are cost-effective, sustainable, and  simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits. Moreover NbS help build resilience to climate change.

​This CPD experience will explore in practical everyday actions,  the application of NbS with students and teachers in schools, and examine and apply the reality and potential of NBS in bringing Digital and Green, Carbon and Silicon together in creative ways, through practical, creative projects and initiatives that will inspire Climate Action. #There Is No Planet B. #Agents of Change
Upcoming Course Dates: Sep/Oct 2023​

​Mindfulness and Game-Based Learning in Schools

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Game-based learning refers to the borrowing of certain gaming principles and applying them to real-life settings to engage users (Trybus 2015), with a specific 'educational' goal in mind. The motivational psychology involved in mindful, game- based learning enables and empowers students to engage with educational materials in a meaningful, safe, playful and dynamic way, to reach a specific, sustainable goal or 'awareness'. This is not gamification, which is 'adding game mechanics into nongame environments, like a website, or online community'.

This CPD experience will explore in practical ways,  the application of mindfulness in, and with game-based learning in schools. This CPD will explore, examine and apply the reality and potential of these complimentary, self-awareness, sel-care and learning 'environments', to enable a deeper understanding of their Strengths, Challenges, Opportunities and Weaknesses in our various curricula and daily lives in classrooms.
Upcoming Course Dates: Sep/Oct 2023​

Leadership and Formative Assessment Including Artificial Intelligence

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Technology and artificial intelligence can vastly improve the types of assessments teachers use to guide students in their learning. Advancements in AI technology have led to new developments in the field, such as stealth assessments, that reduce some of the stress students may experience around assessments. This approach makes testing more ubiquitous and useful for teachers because the methods are woven into the fabric of learning and are invisible to students. Educational leaders work in increasingly complex schooling environments and there are calls for them to be skilled in their assessment practice (Park, 2018). Alongside pedagogy and curriculum, assessment of and for student learning communicates “dominant cultural categories and reinforce relationships of power in classrooms, schools, and societies” that leaders need to negotiate
(DeLuca et al., 2019, p.2).

This CPD experience will explore in practical ways,  the application of AI in enhancing 'formative assessment' in schools. Moreover, this CPD will explore, examine and debate the reality of educational leadership and formative assessment in schools to enable a deeper understanding of their ever evolving  Strengths, Challenges, Opportunities and Weaknesses as educators engage with curricula in schools.
Upcoming Course Dates: Sep/Oct 2023​

Our Expert Course Tutors

Dr. Daithí Ó Murchú

International consultant, retired headteacher, keynote speaker and expert advisor in education, business, multi-literacies, disruption, biodiversity, XR & emerging iTechnologies. Honorary Consul for Côte d'Ivoire to Ireland.

Kajsa Kinsella

Published author, editor-in-chief, journalist, designer, stylist and creative director in both private and public sectors. Skilled in product development, branding, publishing, social media, marketing and creative educational initiatives in schools.

Marco Neves

Global consultant, renowned keynote speaker, teachers and EU expert on digital education and AI, artificial Intelligence in Digital and Green education. 

Paulo Barreira

Pedagogical director, teacher and experienced international project manager. Coordinator in communications, marketing and engineering. 

Tara Hipwell

Primary school teacher in Gaelscoil an Inbhir Mhóir , Tara is firm believer in early immerison language learning and is an active campaigner for sustainability, climate change awareness the SDGs.  She is also an accomplished artist specialising in portraits and has successfully sold out three exhibitions.

Jonathan Hanley

Principal teacher at department of education and skills, Ireland.
Irish representative at EASE, European Association of STEAM educators and coordinator of several creative, green, resilience and leadership initiatives..

Peter Coakley

Peter has been leading innovation in ICT and Digital Education and Literacies in Education policy since the 1990s. He is a key member of the Irish Primary Principals Network (IPPN) Digital Committee & Digital Schools of Europe.

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​Payment: To guarantee the participation and adhere to our payment terms, the participants must make an initial non-refundable transfer of 50% of the total amount via bank deposit and send us an email with attached proof of deposit.
​Only after that we can validate the registration process.
The remaining value must be paid by bank transfer up to 3 weeks before the beginning of the course, also by bank transfer and an email has to be submitted the same way as before.
​Cancelation Policy: The amount of 50% of the value is not refundable in the case of any type of cancelation. Should a cancelation occur during the period of three weeks before commencing of the course, Second You Consultancy will only refund 25% of the total amount of the course.​
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