All Courses
Three online courses for primary teachers, each with five modules of practical, curriculum-linked content you can use in your classroom straight away.
Course Program
Courses
Each course is 20 hours across five modules and can be completed at your own pace. Choose one for €60, two for €89 or all three for €109.
Course 1 - 20 Hours
Safe, Smart & Kind Online
Practical, SPHE-linked lessons on staying safe, treating others kindly and building good habits online, with ready-to-use classroom resources.
Course 2 - 20 Hours
Think Before You Click
Build pupils’ digital literacy, critical thinking and creativity, from spotting misleading content to creating with care and introductory coding.
Course 3 - 20 Hours
AI, Data and Algorithms
Help children understand how AI, data and algorithms shape what they see online, with age-appropriate activities and discussion.
OUR COURSES
Three practical courses for primary teachers
How every module works
Watch short lessons
Easy slide lessons with simple tasks, so you never sit through long videos.
Try a quick task
Short activities and a quiz to check you have understood the main ideas.
Ask your tutor
A friendly forum where a real teacher answers your questions.
Use it in class
Every module ends with lessons and printables ready to use with your pupils.
COURSE 1
Safe, Smart & Kind Online
By the end you will be able to…
- Know what children really do online and why they love it
- Teach privacy and passwords so children remember them
- Deal with online unkindness using your Bí Cineálta procedures
- Know what to say and do if a child tells you something worrying
- Talk to parents with a clear, friendly message
- Plan one small, realistic improvement for your school
The five modules
Before we can teach children to be safe, we need to know what their online world looks like. This module is a friendly tour of the apps, games and videos children in your class are probably using right now, and how to talk about them calmly, without lecturing or scaring anyone.
What you will learn
- What children actually do online at different ages
- Why games, videos and chat apps are fun, and where things can go wrong
- How to start a relaxed conversation with a class, or with a parent
- How children think about online friends compared with real-life friends
What you will do
- Watch short slide lessons with simple pause tasks
- Take a quick quiz to check you have the main ideas
- Share what your class uses in the tutor forum
- Write a short plan for a first class chat about the online world
Your personal information is like your house key: you only give it to people you trust. This module shows how to teach children what counts as private, how to make strong passwords that are still easy to remember, and how apps quietly collect information about us.
What you will learn
- What “personal information” means (name, school, photos, where you live)
- How to make a strong password or “passphrase” a child can remember
- What privacy settings are and how to check them
- Why free apps often collect information, explained in plain words
What you will do
- Try the password game with your class
- Check the settings on one app together, step by step
- Ask the tutor anything in the forum
- Complete a short assignment on teaching privacy
Sometimes children are unkind online, often without meaning to be. This module explains what online bullying looks like, how your school’s Bí Cineálta (anti-bullying) procedures apply, and simple ways to help children be kind, speak up and put things right.
What you will learn
- How to tell the difference between a joke, an argument and bullying
- How Bí Cineálta applies when it happens online
- What a bystander (someone who sees it happen) can do to help
- How to help children say sorry and repair a friendship
What you will do
- Work through short, made-up class scenarios
- Build a “kindness toolkit” of phrases children can use
- Discuss your ideas with other teachers in the forum
- Complete a short assignment
This is the most important module, and we take it gently. You learn how to help children who see something upsetting online or are contacted by someone they do not know, and exactly what to do as a teacher if a child tells you something worrying.
What you will learn
- The “Tell – Block – Report” routine for children
- What to say, and what not to say, when a child tells you something
- Your school’s reporting steps and who you must tell
- Where children and families can find help
What you will do
- Practise a calm reply to a child
- Check your own school’s reporting steps
- Take the quiz
- Complete a short assignment
This module uses made-up scenarios only and nothing graphic. Support information is included throughout.
Screens can be great, but too much can affect sleep, mood and concentration. This final module looks at healthy habits, what a good school digital policy says, and how to talk to parents so everyone gives children the same message.
What you will learn
- Simple, realistic screen-time habits for children
- How to spot when screens may be causing a problem
- What a good school digital policy includes
- How to write a clear, friendly note to parents
What you will do
- Draft a note to parents
- Choose one small improvement for your school
- Complete your final reflective assignment
COURSE 2
Think Before You Click, Create With Care
By the end you will be able to…
- Explain digital literacy in plain words
- Teach children to check whether something online is true
- Spot edited pictures and AI-made content
- Run simple podcast, film and storytelling projects, including in Irish
- Explain copyright and sharing in everyday language
- Plan digital learning across the whole year
The five modules
Reading today means more than books. Children “read” videos, pictures, games and websites too. This module explains what digital literacy is in simple terms, how to help children make sense of what they see online, and how to plan what to teach at each class level.
What you will learn
- What digital literacy is, and what it is not
- How pictures, sound and words work together in a video or webpage
- How to make your resources easy for every child to use
- What to teach from junior infants to sixth class
What you will do
- Look at an everyday website or video with “new eyes”
- Sketch a simple plan for your own class
- Share your ideas in the tutor forum
- Take a short quiz and complete an assignment
Not everything online is true, and some pictures and videos are now made by AI. This module teaches a simple routine, Pause, Check, Tell, and shows children how to search sensibly and ask “who made this, and why?”.
What you will learn
- Good search tips children can use: which words to type and which results to skip
- “Lateral reading”: opening a new tab to check who is behind a page
- How to spot edited pictures and AI-made content
- The Pause – Check – Tell routine for children
What you will do
- Fact-check a made-up story with your class
- Try the five-question source check
- Practise spotting a fake picture
- Complete a short assignment
Children learn brilliantly when they make things. You will try simple, low-cost projects such as a class podcast, a stop-motion film with toys, and a story told in Irish, using devices you already have.
What you will learn
- How to record and tidy up a simple class podcast
- How to make a stop-motion animation, step by step
- How to tell a digital story as Gaeilge
- How to keep children’s work and images safe when you share them
What you will do
- Plan one creation project for your class
- Make a short practice recording or animation
- Show your work to other teachers in the forum
- Complete a short assignment
“Can I just use that picture?” is a question every class asks. This module explains copyright in everyday language, how to find pictures that are free to use, how to say where something came from, and how to share children’s work without putting them at risk.
What you will learn
- What copyright means, with simple examples
- What “Creative Commons” labels mean
- How to credit a picture, a song or a website
- When you need permission from parents to share work
What you will do
- Find three free-to-use images and credit them
- Draft a parent consent letter
- Take the quiz
- Complete a short assignment
The final module pulls it all together. You will see easy ways to check what children have learned, how to fit digital skills into subjects you already teach, how to share ideas with colleagues, and how to choose one improvement for your school.
What you will learn
- Simple ways to tell if a child’s digital skills are growing
- How to fit digital literacy into Gaeilge, English, SESE and more
- How to share good ideas with your staff
- How to set one realistic goal for your school
What you will do
- Plan a term of digital learning for your class
- Choose an improvement action for your school
- Complete your final reflective assignment
COURSE 3
AI, Data and Algorithms
By the end you will be able to…
- Teach how computers “think” using games, with or without screens
- Run robot and block-coding lessons with confidence
- Help children investigate real Irish data
- Explain AI in child-friendly language, including where it goes wrong
- Protect children’s information when using AI tools
- Plan computational thinking lessons across the year
The five modules
You do not need a computer to learn how computers think. This module starts with games, movement and cards: children act as “robots” following instructions, spot patterns and break big problems into small steps.
What you will learn
- The five big ideas: breaking a problem down, spotting patterns, ignoring unimportant details, writing clear steps, and fixing mistakes
- How to give and follow clear instructions
- Why a mistake in instructions (a “bug”) is a chance to learn
- Fun games such as algorithm art and “be the internet”
What you will do
- Play a human-robot game with a partner
- Plan an unplugged lesson for your class
- Join the tutor forum discussion
- Take a short quiz and complete an assignment
Now we add devices, slowly. You will try floor robots, then drag-and-drop coding in ScratchJr and Scratch. You do not need any coding experience: every step is shown on screen.
What you will learn
- How to give a floor robot a path to follow
- How to drag blocks to make a character move
- What a “loop” is, and why it saves time
- How to fix a program that does not work (“debugging”) and how to work in pairs
What you will do
- Program a robot or character to do a short task
- Plan how to share devices in a large class
- Ask questions in the forum
- Complete a short assignment
Data is just information, like the weather or how many children walk to school. This module shows children how to ask a question, collect answers, show them in a graph, and spot when a graph is trying to trick you.
What you will learn
- How to ask a question you can answer with data
- How to collect results and show them in tables and graphs
- How to use real Irish data from the CSO and Met Éireann
- Why some graphs are misleading, and how data can be unfair (bias)
What you will do
- Run a mini survey with your class
- Explore a real data set together
- Take the quiz
- Complete a short assignment
AI is in many apps children use every day, but it is not magic and it makes mistakes. This module explains in simple terms how a computer can “learn” from examples, and why tools like chatbots can sound sure and still be wrong.
What you will learn
- How a machine learns from examples, like sorting cats from dogs
- Why AI gets things wrong
- What “generative AI” is, in plain words
- Hands-on card activities that need no computer
What you will do
- Play “train the classifier” with a set of cards
- Test an AI claim with your class
- Share your thoughts in the forum
- Complete a short assignment
The last module is about using AI wisely. You will look at protecting children’s information, what the Department of Education says about AI in schools, and how to write a simple class agreement about honest use.
What you will learn
- What information should never be typed into an AI tool
- The key points of the Department’s guidance on AI
- How to agree “honest use” rules with your class
- How to plan your lessons for the year
What you will do
- Write an honest-use agreement for your class
- Plan one small improvement for your school
- Complete your final reflective assignment
Not techy? You are in the right place
No tech skills needed
If you can use email and watch a video, you can do these courses. Every step is shown on screen.
Work in your own time
Do a little at a time, at home, in the summer. Nothing is live, so there is nothing to miss.
Ready for the classroom
You finish each module with lessons and printables you can use with your class straight away.