A New AI Literacy Framework for Primary and Secondary Education

Cover of the AI Literacy Framework titled 'Empowering Learners for the Age of AI,' co-developed by the European Commission, OECD, and Code.org

Recently the European Commission and the OECD with support from Code.Org released a draft new AI Literacy Framework for Primary and Secondary Education. This is response to the rapid growth of AI in society and is seen as a starting point to “equip learners and educators to understand both the risks and the opportunities that AI presents, and to make meaningful and ethical decisions about its use…

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Sep 9 2024

UNESCO AI Teacher and Student Competency Frameworks

By Michael Hallissy

Last week UNESCO held their annual flagship event on ⁠digital learning and the transformation of education. The Digital Learning Week states that it bring together “the community of digital education leaders, policy-makers, researchers and practitioners from various organizations, including UN agencies, governments, NGOs and the private sector to steer technology for education.” A key part

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Jan 29 2024

BETT 2024 – It was all about AI

By Michael Hallissy

The world is slowly returning to normal after Covid-19, with BETT moving back to a January date for the first time since 2020. The event was attended, as always, by a large contingent of Irish teachers, principals, management bodies, support agencies and commercial companies. Last year BETT was in March and even though ChatGPT had

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Nov 23 2023

GenAI and its Potential Impact on Homework in Schools

By Michael Hallissy

The Dawn of AISince the launch of ChatGPT in late November 2022 there has been tremendous speculation and discussion around the impact AI technology, particularly generative AI tools, such as Chat GPT can have in education. This is the latest in a range of tools that many believe have the potential to disrupt many of

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Oct 26 2023

Microsoft Launches National AI Upskilling Programme

By Michael Hallissy

Microsoft has launched a new national Artificial Intelligence skills training programme. The announcement was made in Dublin today when Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation Dara Calleary, visited One Microsoft Place. The Minister engaged in a roundtable discussion, which brought together leaders from industry, education and academia to discuss the opportunity

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Oct 9 2023

Using AI to Help with Productivity

By Michael Hallissy

Artificial Intelligence seems to be on everyone’s minds at present, particularly in relation to how it will impact on the world of work and on the skills people will need to work in the future. The World Economic Forum projects that 1.1 billion jobs are liable to change over the next decade and Microsoft has

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Jun 1 2023

AI for Teachers – An Open Textbook for and by Teachers

By Michael Hallissy

The AI for and by teachers Erasmus+ project (ai4t.eu) is a collaboration between France, Slovenia, Italy, Ireland and Luxembourg, designed to contribute to training on AI in education and today they launched the first version of their AI Textbook, which is one of the key resources the project has developed for teachers. This open educational

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Apr 17 2023

BETT 23 – Musings from London’s ExCel

By Michael Hallissy

BETT (British Educational Training and Technology Show) returned to the ExCeL Arena in London from March 29th – 31st and I was delighted to be back having missed last year’s return of this flagship educational technology event post covid. The official stats maintain I was one of 30,000 educators, policy makers, EdTechs and industry changemakers

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Dec 15 2022

How might Chatbot Technology impact on Education and Training?

By Michael Hallissy

There has been a lot of excitement in recent weeks around the arrival of ChatGPT, a conversational artificial intelligence program released recently by OpenAI. Here at home, it is also making headlines in our national papers and suggesting that it will influence many areas of our lives including academia, teaching, law and journalism. Much has

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Sep 29 2022

Informatics education at school in Europe

By Michael Hallissy

The European Commission / EACEA / Eurydice report, Informatics education at school in Europe, was published in recent days and it provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of informatics education, as a distinct discipline, in primary and general secondary education in 2020/2021 in 39 education systems. The research is associated with Action 10 in the Digital

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