The AI assessment emergency
The AI assessment emergency. Reality check, what are we assessing and why?
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Blackbeard, the Wright brothers and AI in education
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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The Circus & the Elephant in the Room – My Thoughts on Leaving Cert Reform.
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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AI for Teachers – An Open Textbook for and by Teachers
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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AI text to image! Which one?
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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Passwords are like underwear
…., 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
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Using Canva for Assessment
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
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Practical Uses of ChatGPT
Since its launch in late 2022, ChatGPT has dominated much of the discourse around technology in education. Indeed, on this very platform, we have seen many blog posts on the topic (‘ChatGPT won’t replace me’ and ‘How might chatbox technology impact on education and training?’). Over the past few months, I have been experimenting with
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BETT 23 – Musings from London’s ExCel
BETT (British Educational Training and Technology Show) returned to the ExCeL Arena in London from March 29th – 31st and I was delighted to be back having missed last year’s return of this flagship educational technology event post covid. The official stats maintain I was one of 30,000 educators, policy makers, EdTechs and industry changemakers
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Chat GPT won’t replace me!
Opinion post alert: Chat GPT/AI won’t replace me! Here is why!
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