We’re running #empower25 on the quiet campus of TUS.ie this week. One of the workshop tasks asks teens to use AI to produce a selfie avatar with cultural cues. So I asked Perplexity to make me as “a man looking like Robin Williams sharing a spice bag with friends from America on the …
I’m working inside a library as part of it converts to a learning space. We are creating a programme for Transition Year students in Ireland, enhancing critical thinking in young people. We are showing five purposes of communication in texts. We are tweaking various brainstorming techniques. …
I toggle between Obsidian (using it several times a day) and Notion (publishing content for workshops). I am getting smarter with both. I’ve discovered I actually take better notes than ever because my copy of Obsidian uses Brian Petro’s Smart Connections. That community plug-in …
Irish Tourism The mainstay of Irish tourism in recent years has been the high-spending American market. According to the Central Statistics Office, visitors from North America spent €2.2 billion in Ireland last year. They might constitute only a quarter of all visitors but they contribute close to …
I’m reading about how to be an office siren because I’ve noticed advice on professional attire is being replaced by the idea that if you’ve got it, flaunt it. And now with Ozempic and everyone losing enormous amounts of weight, I see men and women becoming more daring with what they wear …
I am surveying small business owners this week to see if they want to learn how to do specific things with process automation, some that Ethan Mollick discusses as Co-Intelligence. What would you like the most? Learn how to save important documents into Notebooks then use your voice to query them. …
Two different presenters in Palma outlined frameworks for how AI could be efficiently introduced to colleges and universities and then leveraged for best effect. I snapped a shot during one of the presentations and then asked ChatGPT o3 to summarise it. I think this is a succinct school-wide AI …
From Ron Bronson comes this excellent perspective of Andor. In Andor, rebellion isn’t sparked by righteous anger or sweeping ideology. It emerges from miscalculation. Staffing errors. Bureaucratic overflow. The real genius of the show lies not in its allegory, but in its accuracy. For all the …
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 …