Catherine Jeanneau

The School of MLAL @unioflimerick.bsky.social is offering fully-funded language #upskilling courses to registered Primary School Teachers in collaboration with Languages Connect & the Dept of Education & Youth
Duration: 24 hours, 20h online & 4h onsite
More info tinyurl.com/2wmyzejx

Learn a new language with us poster, promoting evening language classes at the University of Limerick. Check the MLAL website for further info and registration process

Looking for something different to do this autumn?
Sign up for evening language classes in UL @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Choice of languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese & Spanish) & possible levels. #LanguageLearning

Info & registration ul.ie/artsoc/mlal/...

Two fantastic days of reflection and discussions at the Digital Citizenship Education forum in Strasbourg organised by the Council of Europe. Engagement from stakeholders to shape a future road map. Glad to share my expertise and outcomes of digital citizenship projects.

Announcing our Erasmus+ BIP "Innovation in Foreign Language Education" for student teachers across Europe! This course combines online, international group projects and a mobility experience in León, Spain (Dec. 9-13, 2025). More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I’m running a FREE webinar in collaboration with
Carrick-on-Shannon Education Support Centre on 1st May 2025: Advanced Techniques for Language Resource Creation. It’s online, 6:30–8:00 PM (BST / UTC +1), and open to primary and post-primary teachers.

Join us for one or several language taster session(s) during the #LLLFestival2025
Choice of languages including Chinese, Japanese, French...
✍️Registration: forms.office.com/e/2pBd7wCEgZ
#LanguageLearning
#LiteraciesforLife
@unioflimerick.bsky.social

visit our Upskilling courses for primary school teachers website on the UL site to find out more information

Delighted to announce @unioflimerick.bsky.social MLAL is offering free language #upskilling courses to Primary School Teachers in collaboration with LanguagesConnect
Duration: 24 hours, 20h online & 4h onsite
Content: Lgg learning & some practical classroom application
More info tinyurl.com/2wmyzejx

In the #ECML to prepare our team training & consultancy activities with some member states on #DigitalCitizenship: Estonia, Montenegro, Czechia.
@CoE_Education
#DigitalCitizenshipEducation
#DigitalLiteracy

De la vocation à l’abandon : les chiffres derrière la crise du métier d’enseignant Le nombre de candidats aux concours de recrutement des enseignants ne cesse de chuter depuis les années 1990, tandis que les départs volontaires augmentent.

De la vocation à l’abandon : les chiffres derrière la crise du métier d’enseignant

A graphic showing a person using an AI interface

"Teachers were very frustrated, as the department was not telling them how to use AI – only telling them how to cite it. This was effectively putting the cart before the horse"

UL's Dr Ann Marcus-Quinn on the need for clarity around school AI policies:
www.independent.ie/opinion/comm...
#AI

Make one of your 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ resolutions to brush up on your language(s).
Join the evening language classes provided by the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, UL this January.
For info and registrations, check:
www.ul.ie/artsoc/mlal/...
@unioflimerick.bsky.social

This week we are welcoming at the Universidad de León student teachers and teacher trainers from 8 European countries and the US for our Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme on the theme of Innovation in Foreign Language Education.

Start of a few exciting days with student teachers from all over Europe taking part in a Blended Intensive Programme. Thanks @robodowd.bsky.social for the invitation to join the group

Australia thinks that it can ban young people from using social media … we have questions! - Education Technology Society The Australian government has just announced that it will ban all young people under the age of 16 from using social media.Dr. Clare Southerton explains the background to this ‘ban’ and what it might ...

Australian politicians think that they can ban all young people under 16 from using social media … I talked to Dr. Clare Southerton about what this ban might look like in practice, the mis-use of research to support it, and its implications for tech use in schools: www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...

Fascinating thread on the environmental impact of #AI and digital technology. Education & reasonable use are the key. #DigitalCitizenship Thanks @joedale.bsky.social

See you soon

This is so important: educating rather than banning. #DigitalLiteracy

Christmas gift ideas: 100 Irish websites to get your shopping sorted We’ve compiled a list of 100 Irish websites packed with Christmas present potential, from the handmade to the ridiculous

Christmas gift ideas: 100 Irish websites to get your shopping sorted

A list of 100 Irish sites packed with Christmas present potential, with options ranging from handmade to heartwarming

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

On my way to Bordeaux for the 24th #IALIC conference. Exciting programme, the next few days should prove stimulating ialic2024.sciencesconf.org

A photograph of a person cycling over a pedestrian footbridge over a river. There are many tall trees with no leaves looming out of dense fog

A photograph of a bronze sculpture on a person crouching while holding an antler in each hand. The statue is atop a tall rusted pole shrouded in fog

A photograph of groups of people crossing a silver pedestrian footbridge that spans a wide river. The bridge and the trees surrounding it are shrouded in a dense fog

A photograph of a large plaza with many groups of people walking across it and a large building in the background shrouded in fog

Explore our beautiful campus shrouded in freezing fog this morning
www.ul.ie
#StudyatUL #SpeirGorm

Intercultural Communication in Virtual Exchange Cambridge Core - Social and Cultural Anthropology - Intercultural Communication in Virtual Exchange

Really looking forward to reading this new (open access) book by Francesca Helm: Intercultural Communication in Virtual Exchange: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

go.bsky.app/JKwXGXa

This is really thoughtful and transparent.

Would love to be added, thanks

Group of TY students attending the UL ThinkLanguages event

Students performing Spanish flamenco dancing

Four students solving an escape room task

Three students writing their name in Arabic

We had such a blast yesterday with TY students of
ETTS Limerick, St Anne's Community college & CBS Thurles who joined us for #ThinkLanguages: the @unioflimerick.bsky.social experience for a busy day: big quiz, Arabic & Japanese calligraphy, Spanish & German hip hop dancing & an escape room.

Call for papers for a conference on digital linguistics and education in the magnificent city of Valencia next june: cilidi.webs.upv.es/en/ I look forward to attending and giving a keynote on the challenges facing Virtual Exchange in the new global educational landscape.