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🌳🌲🌳🌲 www.independent.ie/regionals/ke...

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UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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How do we tackle online hate directed at footballers? Where did the toxic masculinity of Andrew Tate originate? Hear answers to these questions and more at the first event in the DCU Futurology series at the @ria.ie this Thursday 27th February. Register: launch.dcu.ie/4k3k1TB

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Workplace bar, call it what it is.

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The renaming of a body of water or Trump’s wide-ranging effort to control the media, spread propaganda and interfere with the flow of accurate information? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The State's AI advisory council report advises schools to integrate AI into classrooms as detection methods for AI-generated content are deemed ineffective. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

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Do you wake up wondering what Trump will do next? | Fiona Katauskas

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Are you keen to develop your research skills, extend your knowledge and become a leader in your field? If so, please consider joining us on the @dublincityuni.bsky.social EdD programme which is now recruiting for Autumn 2025.more detail here www.dcu.ie/courses/post... #educationalresearch

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You think Gen AI is developing rapidly. Quantum computing might be on the horizon.

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When it comes to school allocation, decentralisation in education can lead to fragmented systems and increased inequalities #EERA_NW23 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/school-allocation/

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Great news! Looking forward to it. www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

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As I know that some of you out there are struggling with learning a new language. #languagelearning #langsky

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Some of the findings in this 'revenge quitting' survey/report might seem familiar to a lot of teachers: 'feeling undervalued by their organisations (38%), insufficient career growth opportunities (33%) and poor management (27%).' www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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Who didn't, John?

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🙇‍♂️ RETRIEVAL PRACTICE PRINCIPLES! This new poster is based on ‘Making Retrieval Practice Actually Work: Seven Essential Principles for Teachers to Know’ an important blog post by the excellent @carlhendrick.substack.com 🙌 Carl’s Post 👉 bit.ly/4b4Rysh

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Defunding of education is occurring against the backdrop of this. apnews.com/article/meas...

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It looks like 'our old friend, the traditional pen-and-paper formal exam, is making a massive comeback.' www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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* NEW POST * If memory is the residue of thought, how do we support pupils to think about the content of the lesson rather than its container? www.tes.com/magazine/tea... via @tesmagazine.bsky.social

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JD visits a Nazi concentration camp, lays a wreath at a statue which reads 'Never Again,' calls it an 'unspeakable evil' and then meets with and promotes the far-right AfD. Trump/Musk's Xis of Evil is being cultivated. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

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Putting the finishing touches to a CPD session at Carlow College on blended teaching & learning using Microsoft Teams. The college is hosting a five-day CPD event for staff during reading week.

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Following its decision to remove Pride and Black History Month from its calendar and rolling back on its DEI pledges, Google is now facilitating Russia and China’s censorship requests. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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When a single image can transport you back to your early school days. #FuzzyFelt , the 70's iPad.

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Always remember to #LookBeyondTheBehaviour 👇👇#AutisticMasking #Masking #Autism Pic credit Autistic Girls Network

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#edchatie on this coming Monday evening is on 'cognitive science in Irish education'. Join host @patjburke.bsky.social for another productive chat. Future topics this term: supporting special needs, leadership, climate leadership and Leaving Certificate reform. Two vacancies for next term too!

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Our dog has listened to me deliver online evening and weekend lectures in politics and sociology for two years now. He could register with the Teaching Council to teach PolSoc at this stage.

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Future Leaving Certificate Politics & Society (and other subject's ) coursework will be rendered meaningless and pointless if this is the case.

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Jennifer O’Connell wrote a disparaging article about teachers in @irishtimes.com during Covid lockdown in 2020 titled “If hairdressers ran our schools every child would be going back in September”. Same Jennifer now gives workshop to teachers via @newsbrandsireland.bsky.social? Seriously? #edchatie

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Support for Irish unification growing in Northern Ireland, poll finds. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

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A selection of the unelectable and the media. Seanad reform long overdue. www.thejournal.ie/seanad-nomin...

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'Rising demographics at 2nd level' sees a significant rise in the number of applications to the CAO, increasing the competitiveness, pressure and stress of the Leaving Certificate in 2025. If only the previous census had captured this increase. #Wellbeing #MentalHealth www.rte.ie/news/2025/02...

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@dublincityuni.bsky.social & Ulster University are delighted to launch the all-island economic intelligence dashboard. You can now access comparable data from the Labour Force surveys in the 2 parts of the island for the first time. all-islandeconomy.com/all-island-e...

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I don't remember the media initially pointing out that the school that was targeted was predominantly for immigrants. And the BBC know exactly what they're doing here by using the image of a migrant student at the school along with the headline of ths shooting. These msgs are no longer subliminal.

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The Papua New Guinea Courier does it again.

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The second run of this pantomime is only warming up, it would seem. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Nice having a bank holiday weekend (beer and steak) in February. #SaintBrigid #Kildare #Kilcullen

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The American Historical Association's 2024 report reveals comprehensive insights into US history education, highlighting diverse state standards, teacher perspectives and curricular materials. No evidence of indoctrination found. www.historians.org/teaching-lea...

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Utterly disgraceful illegal dumping. This is behind the entrance wall to a recently built housing estate near me.

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Less government, fewer cops

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"I will be meeting with some people that were very badly hurt." There were no survivors. He is a lying buffoon.

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The Senior Cycle subject options information evening were I now find myself saying this subject sells itself. 🤦‍♂️

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