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Our Mindset

We believe that, as educators, our job is to facilitate and encourage a supportive space that cultivates exploration through building, making and innovating. We adopt a beginner's mindset and we believe that our job is to inquire with the learner, to model curiosity, to model experimentation and to be as interested about what is happening as the learner.

Our Experience

We bring more than 50 years of experience working with groups at all stages of their learning in formal and non-formal education settings. From primary, post primary, third level, to professionals in their field. Our goal remains the same: to invite learners to engage with technology and with their own creativity, to encourage them to delve into and develop their innate curiosity in learning new skills.

Our Approach

At the heart of our work is our commitment to designing education programmes that promote creativity, engagement and learning diversity. Our constructivist pedagogical approach provides opportunities for learners to obtain knowledge by forming and testing ideas. Knowledge, based on experience, is constructed by the learner. Our experiential pedagogical approach provides learners the opportunity to reflect on their learning experience,  use analytical skills to conceptualise the experience, and make decisions and solve problems to use the ideas gained from the experience.

We encourage failure as an essential part of the learning process and key to developing the ability to self reflect and to gain a deeper understanding of the responsibility we have to find our own answers to questions that arise on the learning journey, as well as the belief in the growth mindset - knowing that we can improve, and that our ability is a process of self-discovery.

 
Adult with laptop demonstrating to teenagers
Adult and teenager at soldering iron
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3 adults laughing with arts and crafts materials
 

“I think it was really interesting and beneficial to be the student - to deal with the challenges and frustrations as well as successes with the new technologies so as to better empathise with the young people when they encounter new learning.”


Learner testimony

 

We have delivered workshops & courses with many inspiring organisations

 
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