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Meso Brings AI‑Driven Curriculum Planning to Classrooms in Ireland and Beyond

Meso, an education technology spin‑out from the ADAPT Centre for AI‑Driven Digital Content Technology at Trinity College Dublin, is starting a rollout of its AI‑powered curriculum planning platform across Irish schools and into international markets. Paperwork, planning, and assessment take up a lot of teaching time. Meso is set on changing that. Backed by €500,000 […]

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Not Another Post about GenAI (Or Is It?)

In this ‘Brave New (AI-powered) World’ we now inhabit it’s impossible to drown out the ever increasing hyperbole depicting GenAI as the ultimate panacea for ever conceivable woe. As each new iteration of ChatGPT (Or whatever chatbot, you’re having yourself) arrives, accompanied by fanfare and we hear catchphrases like, ‘Digital Transformation’, ‘Future Skills’ and ‘New

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Critical Thinking and AI – What might it look like?

The Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) held their annual conference in Marino Institute of Education. The conference was entitled, The Making of Authentic Teachers in Ages of Artificiality?, and it had a dedicated strand of papers on the theme of Teaching, Learning and Artificial Intelligence. I attended many of these papers and regularly

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The Email That Shook Silicon Valley and Why it Should Shake Irish Education Too

On April 8th, Micha Kaufman sent an email to his staff that literally broke the internet. You’ve probably never heard of Kaufman, but his brutal wake-up call about AI and jobs contains lessons every Irish teacher needs to hear right now. Kaufman runs Fiverr, the $2.9 billion platform that revolutionised freelance work globally. When the

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