UNESCO recently published a report that warns of the lack of appropriate governance and regulation of technology in education. The Global Education Monitoring Report calls for a “human-centered vision” where digital technology serves students and educators instead of detracting from the educational process. The report is titled, ‘Technology in Education: A Tool on Whose Terms?’ …
Last June, I wrote a piece for this blog on Leaving Certificate reform and specifically on how the CAO system, in my opinion, corrupts our Senior Cycle. Since then, Minister Norma Foley has announced an “acceleration” of Senior Cycle reform with seven revised subject specifications and two new subjects being introduced. It was also announced …
I’ve written previously about the numerous Learning Tools Microsoft have Developed (And integrated) into Microsoft 365 for Education, most recently Reading Progress and Coach in my Teams – What’s New for Twenty-Two post. Even more recently my blog colleague Paul gave us the skinny on Learning Accelerators in New Learning Accelerator Tools from Microsoft. Less …
Introducing Quick Guides for Microsoft Learning Tools Read More »
The AI assessment emergency. Reality check, what are we assessing and why?
In a few weeks, I will be enjoying a few days on the beaches of the Outer Banks in North Carolina. While looking for things to do with a few friends, two historical sites popped up in my reading stream that caught my interest. After some time, I realized that they also had an interesting …
Blackbeard, the Wright brothers and AI in education Read More »
The Circus We’re in the middle of the Leaving Cert circus, the time of year when everyone is an educationalist with an opinion (not always an informed one) on what could and should change in our education system. Our news outlets, both online and on paper, have an unhealthy and insatiable obsession with our secondary …
The Circus & the Elephant in the Room – My Thoughts on Leaving Cert Reform. Read More »
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 …
AI for Teachers – An Open Textbook for and by Teachers Read More »
AI: Text to image. Initial thoughts on Canva text to image, Midjourney and DALL-E for creating personalised and specific images.
…., you shouldn’t let people see it, change it frequently, and don’t share it with people you don’t know Chris Prillo So why the interest in passwords…. Dear reader… recently I was a victim of a Facebook hack where multiple Facebook friends were hit with messages purporting from me, looking for money. Fortunately, the unfortunate …
I was inspired to use more Canva in my lessons after attending the BETT convention last month. Their displays alone just looked like so much fun, I wanted to bring that home to my classroom! My only experience of Canva was using it as a tool for teachers to create resources to deliver content to …
