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 …
Fan of Socrative as a Tick-off List
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 …
Ireland Wants to Attract Academics Fleeing America
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 …
Happy to Have Full-on Meta AI Working Again
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 …
Respect for Microcredentials
Looking at ways to link HCI funding to agentic AI training.
My email inbox is untamed
On the first day of Trump 2.0, I woke up worried about losing my mind because of an email overload–not caused by a broligarchy empowered in the States but by my email bloatage.Since I have several paid versions of AI services, I thought I could just put one of them to work but Larry Maguire …
Focus Starts on my Primary Screen
Although I haven’t written down any Resolutions for 2025, I have taken some steps to clean up my routines so that during every increment of time, I’m aware of what I’m prioritising at the moment. I’ve been helped along in this Quest by the screen that welcomes me on my mobile phone. That screen is …
Implementing Online Age Verification
I’m looking at several standards for verifying ages, including the IEEE Standard for Online Age Verification
I asked my resident AI to determine the most onerous burden faced by ISPs when implementing these proposed standards.
The most onerous consideration for Internet Service Providers …
Carving Out Working Conditions with AI
I’m running a hands-on AI training workshop for educators with educatefran at DEC24 on 10 Dec and hope we can claw back the increased productivity we get from AI by either getting more free time or getting paid more for getting more results during the normal business day.
We have walked into a …
Taking a Google Selfie
by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel
IF YOU LIVE and work online, you’re creating electronic selfies all the time. It’s worth you time to see what those selfies show about you.
Google forms a profile about you in order to show you relevant advertising. I look at what Google thinks I like by …
Collaborative Pinpoints
by Bernie Goldbach in Cashel WE ARE EXTENDING communal expertise in the realm of pinpoints on a shared map. It means taking a measured step on a path that started with Cauwell pinpoint technology, meandered through both Nokia and Google Maps with social hiking and now involves the iCollab Community …