You can often tell a lot about a conference by the size of their dining area. During the final two days in June 2025, I’m attending EDULEARN, an international conference on education and new learning technologies. The photo shows some of the seats for more than 800 people who will attend the …
I’m looking at practical workflows educators can improve with AI. My interest is shared by a group of 20 educators in an edulearn25 workshop. We’re starting by determining what Mairead Pratschke, Andrej Karpathy, and Ethan Mollick think about educators using AI to improve their workflows …
Headed into an intense three days at #edulearn25 in Spain, wishing I could lean on @educatefran while prepping a new team-based workshop. My Whoop tracker verifies I spent more time tweaking “Practical Workflows for Educators” than I did sleeping. But whenever we share the load before …
Started playing with reMarkable PRO.
I parked my annual $96 subscription to mem.ai because I had my hands full managing content inside both notion.so and my Obsidian Vault I’m now test driving the Mem 2.0 Alpha and noticiing some features, such as calendar integration, voice capture, and the web clipper are still in …
Henrik Karlsson shares my joy about private notebbooks. A surprising number of my favorite books were not meant to be published. They were private notebooks, or fragments from works-in-progress that never got finished: among them Pascal’s Pensées, Simone Weil’s private essays, …
I often use Socrative to track activities in training workshops. This screenshot from Socrative revealed several things for me. First, the red responses show that two groups did not complete task 15 related to “authenticity statements”. And on group did not complete the task “use …
We have walked next to Marconi House, near one of the east coast landing points of internet connectivity for Ireland. I’ve often wondered about the threat to those undersea cables. John Mooney shares my concern in a Sunday Times article “Underwater Warfare” today. The threat level …
Ireland’s Minister for Higher Education, Research, and Skills has a message for my friends in America who have seen their research grants terminated and watched their collaborators rounded up by ICE. Here is what Minister James Lawless says. Behind every thriving economy lies a quiet, often …
I think it would be a very clever Crime Call show on Irish television if camera footage could match apparel to crimes. In today’s Sunday Times, John Mooney writes “Garda will Headquarters is planning to use artificial intelligence to solve crimes by tracking objects such as clothing, …
The shutdown of MrDeepFakes happened last week just after the US Congress enacted the Take It Down Act, which made it a crime to post non-consens sexual imagery. John Mooney, Investigations Editor for The Sunday Times, reveals “the faces of some of Ireland’s most celebrated female …
Ireland has become a small powerhouse for successful cartoons on the big screen, but could a proposed 100 per cent levy on foreign movies coming into the US cause a fade to black, wonders Siobhán Maguire in The Sunday Times on May 11, 2025. The Irish animation industry leverages Section 481 …
I’ve owned two sets of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses since November 2023 and for the past nine months the “look and tell me” feature was deactivated. Then in late April 2025, version 216.0.0.51.168 landed on my Wayfarers and I regained the full AI service with the glasses.The 9th of May …
From Statfusional: “In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, a quiet revolution is taking place behind the scenes. While much attention focuses on the capabilities of individual AI models, the real breakthrough may lie in how these systems communicate with each other. AI …
During the past 12 months, have taught several hundred people how to use AI to enhance productivity. As I start another 12 block of training with 38 people, most who are new to AI, it’s apparent that there is a clear expectation. Many of the current trainees want to move from monolithic to …
Looking at ways to link HCI funding to agentic AI training.
In the Business Post, Marie-Claire Digby shares her joy of discovering another reason to enjoy fish and chips in Cork. She met Kate Lawlor-Lyne, head chef at K O’Connell Fishmonfers in Dunnes Stores on St Patrick’s Street. “Two generous fillets of hake sit astride a mount of …
It might be time for American resesrchers to look seriously into other places to apply their skills. Under Trump’s budget proposal, the 2026 budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF), one of the world’s leading funders of basic research, would drop roughly US$ 5 billion, a cut of …
From Jamie Raskin I hear, “He is constructing a gangster state, steeped in political and financial corruption and spectacularly disrespectful of the rule of law. He punishes dissent while rewarding blind loyalty, and wants to give his politically packed and stacked federal workers the …
While listening to Patrick Browne and Padraig Ó Catháin explain how they’ve leveraged AI to enhance their teaching, I learned a few things about prompting Google Gemini to generate a syllabus, to export the by-product as an Excel file and then to create a mail shot from part of the result. The …
I bought a few copies of the Irish Independent in late April 2025 because there were several items pertaining to the way society is using AI. I heard about some of these items because they became talking points on prominent Irish radio stations.The Irish online safety commission is very concerned …
The WSJ carries analysts from J.P. Morgan “that despite Moscow becoming more insulated from global trends because of sanctions and severed international ties, the tsunami generated by U.S. trade policy is unlikely to leave Russia unscathed.” Putin’s national-security state is in …
Chinese officials analysed the code used in a recent attack and they believe the NSA used AI to plan tool solutions, to explore vulnerabilities, and monitor traffic in the attacks. The AI could automatically and rapidly create dynamic code during the attack process. Chinese cyber protection staff …
I have more than 10 years of content saved inside my Instapaper account. I’ve a Vimeo looking at the term “workflow” as I prepare a lecture for digital transformation students.
As NPR’s Steven Inskeep put it: “If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that …