Irish-owned IT provider Typetec has expanded its reach into the education sector with a new brand, Wriggle. The announcement was made as 218 students at Malahide Community School received ‘digital school bags’ – the largest deployment so far in Ireland. Twenty-one schools throughout the country will adopt Wriggle’s learning programme using mobile devices and digital textbooks.
Wriggle parent company Typetec plans to invest over €500,000 in the project over the next three years leading to the creation of 25 jobs by 2014.
Patricia McDonagh, principal at Malahide Community School, said: "Malahide Community School chose to introduce iPads in order to enhance the learning experience for our students. IPads can promote students key skills for collaboration, communication and creativity which will be fundamental to the new Junior Certificate and future working life. We are excited by this new adventure as leaders of learning and delighted by the professional support we are getting from Wriggle."
Beryl Furlong, director of education at Wriggle, said: "We created a separate identity for the education division at Typetec to reflect the growth and confidence we have in this side of our business… In Wriggle, we have developed a 1:1 mobile learning programme based on over 20 years of practical experience and grounded in academic research."
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