Deirdre Butler’s passion in life is exploring what being digital in learning can mean. She is interested in ways that using digital technologies could revolutionize learning by challenging us to examine how we learn and to question our assumptions about "traditional" models of schooling.
Deirdre is a senior lecturer in St. Patrick’s College (a constituent College of Dublin City University) with chief responsibility for designing and co-ordinating learning programs for undergraduate and postgraduate students using a broad range of digital technologies to facilitate their understand of what being digital in learning can be.
Deirdre has consulted to and participated in educational development work using expressive computational materials in Mexico, Costa Rica, many European countries, as well as rural and urban areas of Ireland.
Prior to St. Patrick’s College, Deirdre worked in primary schools for nearly twenty years. Her many guises included classroom teacher, deputy head, and teacher for the travelling community.
Deirdre is currently chair of Microsoft’s Partners in Learning International Advisory Council.