School Information Sheet
In order to take part in OurKidsCode, a representative of your school must consent to take part.
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Invitation paragraph
We aim to help families enjoy, understand and encourage creative computing. We do this by offering family workshops where parents and children collaborate and benefit from being alongside other families. We are asking individuals who are assisting us in rolling-out this programme to help us to scale and sustain our activities and ensure we are making progress towards our aims. Participation is voluntary.
Before you decide if you want to help, it is important for you to understand why the research is being done and what taking part involves. Please take time to read the following information carefully. Please ask us if there is anything that is not clear or if you would like more information.
What is the purpose of the study?
We know that you want to support and encourage your community’s creative use of technology. We want to figure out the best way to support that. In particular we want to investigate issues of scalability and sustainability.
To do this we would like to invite you to share your views on the programme and your expertise through an online questionnaire. This is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the programme and is not a test!
We will ask in the questionnaire if you would be willing to give us more of your time and allow us to conduct an interview with you to discuss the issues in more depth.
Do I have to take part?
We need to collect and store your contact details to organise workshops in your school, to give you access to the online questionnaire and to organise the interviews. So, in order to participate, you will need to read this information leaflet and sign a consent form.
It is up to you to decide whether to take part. Even if you decide to take part now, you are still free to change your mind at any time and without giving a reason. You can also decide to skip any questions you like.
What will happen to me if I take part?
You will be asked to complete an online questionnaire which will take around 10-15 minutes. We will ask in the questionnaire if you would be willing to give us more of your time and allow us to conduct an interview with you to discuss the issues in more depth. If you agree to this, we may contact you to arrange a convenient time. The interview will take place either online or face-to-face at your convenience and will last around 30 minutes. It will be audio recorded.
- Do not mention yourself or other people by name – if you do by mistake, we will remove the names.
- Participating in all or any of these is voluntary and you may change your mind and stop at any time.
- You may also choose not to answer an individual question in the survey or the focus group at any time and skip it without penalty.
What are the benefits of taking part?
While you will not benefit directly, you will be benefiting future participants and their communities as we figure out together how to best embed this family-centred creative computing programme into communities all over Ireland.
Keeping you and your data safe
Our team are Garda vetted which means we are approved to work with families and children.
Your privacy is important to us. We will store personal information and audio recordings on secure password-protected servers at Trinity College for up to 10 years. Only the project team will have access to it. No hard copies of the data will be stored.
Your name and location will be removed so that your identity remains confidential before it is shared with anyone outside the project team. We will never share the audio files with any third parties. If you decide to withdraw from the research, you may request that we delete your data,
If you are at all worried about how your data is kept, please get in touch and we can answer your questions.
It’s very unlikely, but if we find out about any illegal activities, child protection law means that we must let the authorities know.
What will happen to the results of this research?
There may be media reporting, lectures, conference presentations and academic publications written as a result of this project. However, our reporting and published results will not include any information that would identify you.
What will happen to the results of this research?
If you have any questions or concerns regarding your participation, please contact our project team at contact@ourkidscode.ie. They will be happy to answer any questions that you may have.
THANK YOU
This project is funded by Research Ireland and the Google Breaking Barriers Programme and administered by the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin. The project team consists of Assistant Professor Nina Bresnihan, Assistant Professor Glenn Strong, Louise Caldwell, Mary O’Mahony and Dr Richard Millwood from Trinity College Dublin.
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Data Protection Officer
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Email: dataprotection@tcd.ie
Website: www.tcd.ie/privacy
What is the lawful basis to use my personal data?
Information will only be used for this research study which aims to inform the development of the OurKidsCode Programme The legal basis for processing your personal data is Article 6(1)(e) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The legal basis for processing your sensitive personal data is Article 9(2)(j) GDPR.
What are my rights in relation to your use of my personal data?
You are entitled to request any of the rights below unless it would make it impossible or very difficult to carry out the research study:
- The right to access to your personal data;
- The right to receive a copy of your personal data;
- The right to ask us to restrict our use of your personal data;
- The right to ask us to correct inaccurate information about you; or
- The right to ask us to delete your personal data.
You are entitled to object to any further processing of the information we hold about you (except where it is de-identified). You can exercise these rights or learn more about data protection in relation to this study by contacting the Project Lead at Nina.Bresnihan@tcd.ie or the Trinity College Data Protection Officer (contact details above).
Please note that these rights relate to data which could identify you (personal data). If your data has been anonymised, we will not be able to access or delete it as we will have no way of being able to link the data to you.
If you are unhappy with how we have used your personal data, you can raise a concern with the Data Protection Commission via their online form – https://forms.dataprotection.ie/contact – or contact the Commission at:
Data Protection Commission
21 Fitzwilliam Square South
Dublin 2
D02 RD28
Ireland