Luttrellstown Community College with their Wriggle digital school bags

Luttrellstown Community College becomes 100th school to use Wriggle digital school bags

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Luttrellstown Community College with their Wriggle digital school bags

2 September 2014

One hundred and forty first year students at Luttrellstown Community College received their Wriggle ‘digital’ schoolbags today, bringing the number of students using the mobile learning programme across Ireland to more than 7,000.

Wriggle was founded in 2012 as the digital learning arm of IT services firm Typetec. A 1:1 mobile learning initiative, Wriggle has created a complete package to provide each school with everything they need to make the move to digital textbooks on mobile devices, catering for both students and teachers and delivering ongoing support.

Beryl Furlong, director of education at Wriggle, said: “The advantages are numerous – interactive, up to date content to engage students and increase attainment; the ability to cater to different learning styles and rates of progression; offers greater collaboration and instant feedback and fosters important life skills. Essentially 1:1 mobile learning allows students to acquire and develop what have become essential skills for the modern workplace and community.”

Priomhoide at Luttrellstown Community College Fionnuala Ni Chaisil added: “As a learning community, we already use IT as a key tool in teaching and learning and so the next logical step was to introduce individual tablets to students. The enhanced learning opportunities thiswill provide for students of all learning styles and abilities is what makes this initiative so worthwhile… Teachers will continue to create their own material and resources, which can be made available to students through Gmail. Parents will also find it easier to support their son or daughter’s learning, with all resources available on the iPad and easier communication with the school through e-mail.”

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