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Assistant Professor of Educational Development @ University College Dublin 🇮🇪 Wayfinding. Critical Digital Pedagogy, Qualitative Research, Open Educational Practices, Pedagogies of Care, Humanising Teaching/Learning/Technology she/her
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Happy Thursday! The next Teaching Toolkit Thursday session for UCD teaching colleagues, on 20 March 2025 at 1:00 pm, is on cultivating belonging in the classroom. Share ideas, ask questions and be inspired! ➡️ Book your place via the UCD Teaching & Learning website: www.ucd.ie/teaching/new...

We've joined Bluesky, and are super excited to interact with our fellow educational developers and educators in the community! We're also on Instagram and TikTok as @livunicie, join us there if you want to engage with our videos and content.

<3 So happy to see you again @lindacq.bsky.social - we have a global friendship! <3

Call to PhD students for applications to EERA's NW 13. Philosophy of Education Season School 2025 at the University of Galway, Ireland, 17 - 18 May 2025. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 11 March. Full info: https://eera-ecer.de/seasonschools/nw-13-philosophy-of-education-season-school-2025

The 2nd AI ethics special issue, American Philosophical Quarterly 61.2, is out! Contributors: • @emratti.bsky.social • @pathumm.bsky.social • @kraymondh.bsky.social - @univie.ac.at • @jonasblatter.bsky.social - @ruhr-uni-bochum.de • @rodrigodiazxphi.bsky.social - @csic.es + more buff.ly/3ELKpRy

I tuned into @edtechie.bsky.social - Martin Weller's keynote to wrap up a super day at Education after the Algorithm... #sketchnote #ai #cartoon

The humans of the #CSET2025 Ottawa conversation in the beautiful edStudio space at @uottawa.bsky.social

Well, our #CSET2025 conversation 'officially' ended at 12pm and the last people just left at 1:45pm! I would call that a success! Looking forward to stepping back to synthesise, debrief, and share out with a wider audience!

Gearing up for our #CSET2025 conversation at @uottawa.bsky.social

wonderful to hear @helenbeetham.bsky.social troubling the concept of the algorithm — at Education After the Algorithm @dculibrary.bsky.social.

I loved tuning into Helen Beetham's keynote at DCU's Education after the Algorithm conference this morning. #learningrewilded #sketchnote #ai

Call for Papers for a Special Issue on: Professional Development and Learning of Teachers Teaching Out-of-Field (OOF) In the first instance, we require a structured abstract of 500 words by 04/04/25. More information @ think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

University history lecturers spend much of the first year survey courses unravelling students' conviction that a source is useless because "it is bias (sic)". No, the bias or perspective is precisely what we're interested in.

today is tuesday. there will be distractions and diversions, people and projects that crave your attention. and yet, today you will be served by unseen systems that work unassumingly so you can face your day and all it will bring. there is hope and opportunity in today. today is tuesday.

Because it might be helpful: If anyone is looking for an AI-free, clean writing tool Ellipsus is super good. It's meant for writers, but I use it as a Google Docs alternative. ellipsus.com

MODERN-DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world Developed by @carlbergstrom.com & @jevinwest.bsky.social (via @cogdog.bsky.social ) thebullshitmachines.com

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The AI Coup and the AI Line 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-coup/

Added a few more to the list over the past week! go.bsky.app/Kh3EkWN

On brainstorming, the incessant demands on creativity and content creation, and how Sputnik moments are always “AI Sputnik moments” 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/sputnik-was-...

Here's something that takes seconds and could have actual positive outcomes. There is an official 'citizen's petition' system in the EU. There's one open at the moment to ban conversion therapy for LGBT+ people in the EU. Ireland can be 1 of the 7 nations needed eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

So I think I will do a monthly share of this for anyone who hasn't seen it. Do get in touch if you woukd like to join go.bsky.app/8FJAkMG

We will no longer be posting on #X as the platform is not consistent with our values of collegiality, creativity, inclusion, engagement, excellence and integrity. Instead, Bluesky and Mastodon (@[email protected]) will be our main social channels. 🙋‍♀️🙋🙋‍♂️ 🏳️‍🌈

‘Mati, Mati, My Boy, Mati Mati’: Using Slow Academia to Embed Indigenous Knowledges in Higher Education by - Celise Gibson, Lauren Woodlands addletonacademicpublishers.com/contents-kc/...

INSPIRISLES is an award-winning #ttrpg made in collaboration with the Deaf community that teaches players British & American sign language! Please follow the #Kickstarter and let 2025 be the year you learn to sign. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tat...

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

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The battle over copyright in the age of ChatGPT

Thank you to those who have registered to attend the launch of the DCU Centre for Inclusive Pedagogy. We are really looking forward to welcoming you on Monday, 27th January, 6pm - keynote by the eminent Prof Mel Ainscow. @dcuioe.bsky.social @dcuresearch.bsky.social

Resilience and Open Education: Supporting Ukrainian Librarians During Wartime Thursday, February 13, 2025 (online) - details below www.cccoer.org/webinar/resi...

Join us at #OEWeek25 from March 3-7 for the global celebration of open education! 🎉 Meet incredible educators, swap cool ideas, and be inspired at events in your area or on the web. Whether you're hosting an event or joining others, it all counts! Spread the word! oeg.pub/OEWeek

Hi there, #FirstGen folx. Please help me get the word out and add more to this #StarterPack!

Taught the first day of "Data for the Rest of Us" and tried an activity I'm calling "We Data." Students construct datasets about themselves in small groups and look for stories in the spreadsheet. A good icebreaker and introduction to the themes of the course. More here:

A starter pack of DCU academics, researchers, departments and faculties. #WeAreDCU go.bsky.app/N2BH5eb

I've just added a dozen more to the list - please message me if you know of other organisations/entities that should be added! go.bsky.app/Kh3EkWN

Atlantic Technological University's Higher Education 4.0 Project will host a lunchtime webinar focusing on ATU’s free online short courses, often referred to as MOOCs, on Wednesday, February 12, at 1pm. To register, go to events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5203e8... @gavinclinch.bsky.social

Delighted to be speaking at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social on 14 Feb about my grandmother. Thanks to @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for the invite & opportunity to think more on family history & how photographs change what we know, or don't know, about past lives. www.eventbrite.ie/e/photograph...

For the evening crowd: I put words to my nagging concerns, which last semester became fully realized fears, about how students use generative AI - despite the very real harms that generative AI has caused and continues to cause. We have a lot to think about as we write our syllabi.