Digital Curriculum

Digital Curriculum

Deansrath Community College is a leader in Digital Learning. The vision of our Digital Learning Plan is to "make sure that digital technology enhances rather than impairs learning, administration and wellbeing." As such, school improvement is integral to our use of Digital Technology.

We carefully plan, implement and evaluate digital technology so that it improves our learners' experiences and outcomes, and also plays a role in enhancing our individual and collective practice as teachers and SNAs.

Parents and students can visit our Digital Support page for all the relevant information for our digital systems, devices, policies and practices.

Digital Learning

Deansrath Community College invests in Digital Learning as the ability to use ICT effectively is an essential life skill in modern society. As Digital skills and  technologies are continually developing we as a school strive to give all pupils the skills needed to prepare them for the future.

Cloud

To ensure an interactive and safe experience, we utilise the college Office 365 Virtual Learning Environment of OneNote backed up by OneDrive,and SharePoint.

iPads

These cloud services are integrated with class sets and 1:1 sets of iPads. We rigorously plan, implement and evaluate students' and teachers' use of iPads so that they serve to enahance rather than impair learning, administration and wellbeing. As summed up in our Student - and Teacher-Generated publication Deansrath iPad Guidelines, "iPads cannot teach for us", "Learning Outcomes are key".

Continuing Professional Development
We have a well established tradition of in-house CPD. Outstanding recent projects have been "RapidApps" (2019), "Genius Hub" (2019) "SixtySecondShare" (2020), "Digital Plus" (2020) and, in conjunction with Microsoft Ireland and DDLETB "Deansrath Connect" (2020-23)

Student Voice

Student Digital Leaders are celebrated in Deansrath Community College. The School Digital Champions Programme saw three separate entries in 2019 and another three, including the outstanding "Gaeilge Gach Áit" in 2020.

Student-led teacher training was highly successful in sessions such as "Genius Hub" (2019) "SixtySecondShare" (2020) and "Tech Stars Challenge" in 2020.

Networks

All classrooms are equipped with Interactive Whiteboards, each student has personal access to reliable and state of the art Network and PC resources and the college WiFi is fast and secure.