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"It's the last piece of the puzzle, but you just can't make it fit" Head of Centre for Academic Practice SETU Vice President ILTA LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator Interested in #EdTech #GenAI #Lego and making the world a better place Views are spectacular

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I completely forgot about Flash! but I am interested to know what formats you would propose instead of the PDF? (I'm not defending it, genuinely curious)

05.03.2026 12:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What We Must Do About AI In Education – GenAI:N3

“Students must learn with GenAI before they can question it.”
But should we?
In the GenAI:N3 blog, @eam0.bsky.social responds to this Manifesto statement and asks the sharper question:
Should we learn with AI?
A thoughtful challenge to assumptions about AI in education.
📖 genain3.ie/what-we-must...

18.02.2026 09:54 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I think Claude is great and have used it to "vibe" code an app that has proven very useful but the usage limits kick in very hard and very fast.

06.02.2026 10:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We were watching at the same time as the chat, Sky Glass doesn't allow recording of the UK channels in Ireland! I almost replied to some of the questions with Traitor names! 😂

21.01.2026 21:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Delighted to be part of the conversationa dn loved reading the replies. Thanks for having us!

21.01.2026 21:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sounds a bit like Kraftwerk unplugged!

21.01.2026 20:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A4, I use it for everything! but don't tell anybody! 😬

21.01.2026 20:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Designing assessment that makes learning visible regardless of the tools used is what we should be aiming for, what that looks like might involve oral and in-class work, which presents challenges at scale, fewer but deeper assessments may have a place too and in person exams will always have a role

21.01.2026 20:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hi, I'm Ken also in Co. Wexford and the Ken part of Hazel and Ken ;-)

21.01.2026 20:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Teaching, Learning, Assessment and GenAI: Moving from Reaction to Intentional Practice – GenAI:N3

Our latest GenAI blog sets the scene for our upcoming #LTHEchat on Wednesday 21st, focused on the Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education.

📖 genain3.ie/teaching-lea...

#GenAIN3 #GenerativeAI #HigherEd #TeachingAndLearning #Assessment

19.01.2026 11:50 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
LTHEchat 350: Teaching, Learning, Assessment and GenAI: Moving from Reaction to Intentional Practice Generative AI has become part of higher education with remarkable speed. In a short period of time, it has entered classrooms, assessment design, academic writing, feedback processes, and professional workflows. For many educators, its arrival felt sudden and difficult to make sense of, leaving little space to pause and consider what this shift means for learning, teaching, and academic practice.

Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore Teaching, Learning, Assessment and GenAI with @hazelfarrell.bsky.social and @kenmccarthy.ie on Wednesday 8-9pm GMT.

16.01.2026 14:14 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
2025 Review – A Shared Conversation, Built Over Time – GenAI:N3

✨ GenAI:N3 2025 Blog Review ✨

From disruption to shared practice - our weekly blog series traced how higher education is learning with generative AI. Massive thanks to all of our contributors!

📖 Read the review:
genain3.ie/2025-review-...

#GenAIN3 #AIinEducation #HigherEd

29.12.2025 10:00 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Universities: GenAI – There’s No Stopping, Start Shaping! – GenAI:N3

🎓 Universities: GenAI – There’s No Stopping, Start Shaping!
In our final post of 2025, @educatefran.bsky.social calls for an end to "AI panic". While we debate, students are often left navigating Big Tech tools in secrecy.

🔗 Read more on GenAI:N3: genain3.ie/universities...
#HigherEd #GenAI #EdTech

22.12.2025 09:21 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Rebuilding Thought Networks in the Age of AI – GenAI:N3

🧠🔗 Rebuilding Thought Networks in the Age of AI

AI can generate content, but it can’t replace thinking together.
This blog from @gravesle.bsky.social asks what we lose when shared intellectual spaces fragment, and how we can rebuild them with intention.

👉 Read & reflect: genain3.ie/rebuilding-t...

15.12.2025 09:02 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Building the Manifesto: How We Got Here and What Comes Next – GenAI:N3

🚀 New blogpost: How we built the Manifesto - and what’s coming next.

A short, collaborative set of 30 statements that’s already reached 40 countries.
If you care about how AI is reshaping higher ed, this is your invitation to jump in.

🔗 genain3.ie/building-the...

08.12.2025 09:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Teaching the Future: How Tomorrow’s Music Educators Are Reimagining Pedagogy – GenAI:N3

With guidance from @hazelfarrell.bsky.social , Future music educators at SETU are reimagining how we teach - blending creativity, pedagogy, and AI.

Some brilliant student ideas in this new blogpost on the GenAI:N3 website👇

genain3.ie/teaching-the...

#AI #MusicEd #HigherEd

01.12.2025 09:12 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
GenAI:N3 - Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education

We’re creating a book to accompany the Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education, and we’re seeking short, 1,000-word essays based on any of the 30 Manifesto statements.

EOIs (150 words) due 15 Dec 2025.
Form link: forms.gle/nEWRZic9EMLE...
Manifesto: genain3.ie/files/manife...

26.11.2025 10:47 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Transformative Power of Communities of Practice in AI Upskilling for Educators – GenAI:N3

New on the GenAI:N3 blog: The Transformative Power of Communities of Practice in AI Upskilling for Educators by @topgold.bsky.social

AI capability doesn’t grow in isolation. It grows in community through shared practice, and collective confidence.

genain3.ie/the-transfor...

#GenAI #HigherEd

24.11.2025 09:03 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is not the end but a beginning: Responding to “Something Wicked This Way Comes” – GenAI:N3

New on GenAI:N3: Kerith George-Briant & Jack Hogan explore a “two-lane” approach to AI in assessment - one secure, one collaborative. Smart, honest, and very human.

Read: genain3.ie/this-is-not-...

#HigherEd #GenerativeAI #AssessmentDesign

17.11.2025 09:06 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
AI Could Revolutionise Higher Education in a Way We Did Not Expect – GenAI:N3

The latest weekly blog post on the GenAI:N3 website (genain3.ie) features Brian Mulligan positing that to overcome the threat from AI, universities may have to reinvent themselves through authentic, applied learning. Ironically, AI might be both the problem and the solution. #GenAI

10.11.2025 09:39 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
EdTech You: Digital Learning From How to Who

EdTech You: Digital Learning From How to Who

The call for abstracts for the 25th Irish Learning Technology Association's EdTech 2026 Conference is now open. Join us in Dublin in June 2025! See more on ilta.ie/edtech-2026/ #Highered #edchatie #edusky #Heie #edtech26

04.11.2025 13:43 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Dr. Strange-Syllabus or: How My Students Learned to Mistrust AI and Trust Themselves – GenAI:N3

Another wonderful blog post on the GenAI:N3 website (genain3.ie) this week from Tadhg Blommerde, who shares insights about Dr Strange Syllabus and teaching students to trust themselves...
genain3.ie/dr-strange-s...

03.11.2025 08:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI Adoption & Education for SMEs – GenAI:N3

It might be a public holiday, but it is still Monday, and that means another new blog post on the GenAI:N3 website, this week featuring the thoughts of MTU PhD Researcher Patrick Shields who writes about the role that Higher Education can play in AI adoption by SMEs.
genain3.ie/ai-adoption-...

27.10.2025 09:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dr Hazel Farrell @hazelfarrell.bsky.social presenting the work of GenAI:N3 @genain3.bsky.social at the Council of Europe Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education -
Ensuring quality education in the AI era in Strasbourg. #GenAI #SETU

09.10.2025 12:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Something Wicked This Way Comes – GenAI:N3

The first of the GenAI:N3 Weekly Blog posts comes from the always entertaining Jim O'Mahony, SFHEA, with a link-packed roundup of where we are now and an existential question about where we left the remote control! Well worth the read...
#genai #genain3 #ntutorr genain3.ie/something-wi...

30.09.2025 07:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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ILTA EdTech25 - Day 1 YouTube video by South East Technological University

Follow the Day 1 Live Sream in the main auditorium at #edtech25 at #SETU #Waterford

Here is the link!

youtube.com/live/5JHeDVq...

#community #learningtechnology #edtech

29.05.2025 08:30 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Sustainability in the Arts Festival Brochure 2025

Just 10 days to go to the third "Sustainability in the Arts" festival in South East Technological University, this award-winning festival promises to be better than ever, well done to @hazelfarrell.bsky.social and her incredible team.

27.03.2025 12:23 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Super proud of this amazing educator and colleague, @hazelfarrell.bsky.social who won a SATLE impact award for the Sustainability in the Arts Festival in SETU. #SATLE

12.03.2025 15:17 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Next up on our calendar is our annual EdTech conference this May. We’re headed to Waterford to the sunny South East Technological University as hosts. Stay tuned for more details, including our call for papers coming soon!

27.02.2025 18:52 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Yesterday @tudublinsustain.bsky.social launched the Digital Badge - Education for Sustainability w 250 academic staff across Ireland. This collab with ATU and SETU shows #DigitalEducation can build capacity at scale in #ESD @iltasky.bsky.social @ntutorr.ie @carinaginty.bsky.social @kenmccarthy.ie

28.02.2025 10:03 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0