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Not Another Post about GenAI (Or Is It?)

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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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An Honest Reflection from a Digital Learning Coordinator: Lessons Learned the Hard Way

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When I first became a Digital Learning Coordinator, I thought the role would be all about devices, apps and keeping up with the latest technology. The reality turned out to be very different. Much of the work wasn’t about the shiny tools at all — it was about people, planning and building systems that actually

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Critical Thinking and AI – What might it look like?

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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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Elementari. Combining Storytelling and Coding in One Tool

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Elementari is a website for creating and publishing simple interactive and animated digital stories. The story creator, which looks and feels like any presentation or slideshow tool, fuses digital storytelling with important elements of coding and computational thinking. Students create a series of slides featuring text, images, illustrations, sound (including music and voice-over), and code blocks

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

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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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A New AI Literacy Framework for Primary and Secondary Education

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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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