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Minister Quinn pictured at Stillorgan library

The Department of Education and Skills’ education portal, Scoilnet.ie, has been revamped to allow teachers to share and upload their own teaching and learning resources. Up until now, Scoilnet has been a consumption only website, directing users to other material online but without an interactive facility.

Now any registered primary or post-primary teacher can add their own teaching and learning resources and map them to the Irish curriculum.

Launching the website, Minister Quinn said:

This is a wonderful opportunity for Irish primary and secondary school teachers to create and share teaching resources. We know there is an appetite among Irish teachers to use and share digital resources and this is evidenced by the number of Irish teachers visiting resources such as the Times Education Supplement website.

While this is an excellent resource for teachers, Scoilnet has the added advantage of containing content specific to the Irish curriculum. I also welcome the inclusion of resources for our Gaelscoileanna and Scoileanna sa Ghaeltacht. I would encourage teachers to share resources among their peers.

Read the full press release here.