Microsoft Launches National AI Upskilling Programme

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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Sep 28 2023

Technology in Education: A Tool on Whose Terms

By Paul Munroe

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?’

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Sep 25 2023

Is Senior Cycle Reform Really Accelerating?

By Humphrey Jones

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

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Sep 11 2023

Introducing Quick Guides for Microsoft Learning Tools

By Pat Brennan

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

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Jun 26 2023

The AI assessment emergency

By Frances O'Donnell

The AI assessment emergency. Reality check, what are we assessing and why?

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Jun 23 2023

Blackbeard, the Wright brothers and AI in education

By John Heffernan

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

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Jun 12 2023

The Circus & the Elephant in the Room – My Thoughts on Leaving Cert Reform.

By Humphrey Jones

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

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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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May 25 2023

AI text to image! Which one?

By Frances O'Donnell

AI: Text to image. Initial thoughts on Canva text to image, Midjourney and DALL-E for creating personalised and specific images.

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