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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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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Creating End of Year Video Slideshows
Its quickly coming to that time of year again when teachers think about making an end-of-year video slideshow for their classes. Be it 6th class graduating to secondary school or Leaving Certs getting ready to say goodbye to 2nd level education, teachers will often include a video slideshow as part of their graduation ceremony. Summarizing
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Shaping the Future…@ICTedu Conference 23
The ICT in Education conference takes place on the Thurles campus of the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) on Saturday 13th May. The theme for this year’s event is ‘Shaping the Future of Education – Exploring technology that is changing the way we teach’. Keynote addresses on the future of education and the impact
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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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Using Booklets to Support Teaching & Learning
I started using self-made booklets to support my teaching, and my students’ learning, around five years ago, principally with Leaving Certificate students and they’ve proved an effective and popular tool for my students in that time. The booklets are essentially a “notes pack” which contain the content I want my students to learn for a
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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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