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Microsoft Innovative Expert Educator Nominations 2025/26

It’s that time of year again!! Nominations for MIEE 2025/26 are open! (How to become an MIE Expert and Showcase School 2025-2026). As someone who has previously experienced the transformative power of this community, I am eager to once again immerse myself in the collaborative and innovative environment that Microsoft fosters. The Microsoft Innovative Expert […]

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Navigating the Digital Highway: Driving Digital Literacy Forward

Take 5 minutes and grab a cuppa! ☕ Predicted reading time… 5 mins. Back in January, I promised to focus my contribution for 2025 on ‘Learning’… Learning. Not to mention, teaching digital literacy without problem-solving skills is like handing someone a car with no steering wheel. They’ll press a few buttons, panic when a light

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Unpacking the Irish AI Advisory Council Report: Urgent Guidance or More Waiting?

After two years of uncertainty the AI Advisory Council’s guidance paper on Education finally offers Irish educators something tangible—a preliminary roadmap for integrating AI into our education system. But is this the decisive turning point we’ve awaited, or merely the first tentative step in a longer, more arduous journey? As a current secondary teacher who

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AI Presentation Generators Canva, SlideSpeak, GammaApp and CoPilot.

Creating Presentations with AI: Canva, SlideSpeak, Gamma and Copilot Compared

Any educators out there who do not need to create slide presentations? I doubt it! Historically, I have delivered presentations which were content focussed over visually appealing (or unfortunately accessible!). Times have changed, and generative AI is one of these changes.  Can generative AI help us get the right structure, help us write clear content,

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