Dr. Darina M. Slattery

Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t Microsoft is firing 9,000 workers across the company — 4% of all employees. Before this, they laid off over 6,000 in May and another 300 in June. [CNBC] It’s not that Microsoft is doing badly. In Q…

"Microsoft isn’t replacing these guys with AI. It’s firing them so it can throw even more money at AI. Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion on AI infrastructure in the next year."
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Looks glorious Sue. Enjoy!

Nooo not gen AI on Wikipedia! The Wikimedia Foundation has stepped back for now, mercifully. Does make you realise what a thin line we have against hallucinated “facts” becoming unavoidable and widespread model collapse. I can’t imagine @davidgerard.co.uk is impressed.

Have you see 3D version of Bloom’s Taxonomy? #education #edu #teaching

Very handy resource here for writing alt text #tcidul

I feel we need to encourage more of our colleagues on to #BlueSky but as there isn’t sufficient content here yet (IMO), it’s hard to convince others to buy-in to a new platform. But it won’t grow if people don’t join…

Students want to shape how AI is used in education, calling for clearer guidance, fairer access, and stronger career support. Read more in this new report 👇

The AI jobs crisis is here, now It's not coming, it has already arrived.

The AI jobs crisis is not coming—it's here right now. It just might not look the way many thought it would.

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...

How To Write Alt Text For Memes | Veroniiiica My favorite tips for how to write alt text for memes, reaction images, and other types of social media comedy content, written by someone with low vision

If you're not sure how to write alt text for memes, this resource from Veronica With Four Eyes (Veronica Lewis) will help you.

veroniiiica.com/2018/11/29/h...

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Great to see our article 'Experimenting with a Multi-User Virtual Environment for Collaborative Online International Learning' published in the Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education today journals.oslomet.no/index.php/no... @ulresearch.bsky.social #tcidul

Ten Considerations for Generative Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Irish Higher Education #tcidul hub.teachingandlearning.ie/wp-content/u...

Book cover of Transformative Practice in Higher Education: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning.

Section of the Table of Contents for a new publication showing the author's chapter (chapter 15) among others.

Delighted to have my chapter on academic supports during and after a new LMS implementation published in this wonderful new collection: 'Transformative Practice in Higher Education: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning' #tcidul

Are you a jack of all GenAI? Effective use of generative AI draws on a suite of skills that go beyond well-crafted prompts. Getting the best out of tech’s ubiquitous tool requires informed choices, field expertise, flexibility, d...

What is #GenAI proficiency and how do we acquire it? Research by Australia's national science agency #CSIRO provides some answers: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/are-y... #AIliteracy #edusky #academicsky

#LTHEchat 322: Postplagiarism: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Artificial Intelligence Led by Prof. Sarah Elaine Eaton @saraheaton.bsky.social In higher education, we find ourselves at a fascinating inflection point. The emergence of powerful artificial intelligence tools has forever…

2 days to go before this week's #LTHEchat!
This week we will feature Prof. Sarah Eaton @saraheaton.bsky.social who will be leading a discussion on postplagiarism: teaching and learning in an age of Artificial Intelligence.
Check out the blog for more: lthechat.com/2025/03/10/l...

I'm delighted to announce our paper has just come out in the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching: 'A protocol for a scoping review on understandings of inclusion in Higher Education Institutions in the Republic of Ireland' journals.sfu.ca/jalt/index.p... #tcidul #InclusivePedagogies

A nice variety of #GenAI in education resources here #tcidul

Trauma-sensitive teaching Introduction - listen to podcast

Check out our suite of resources for how to engage in trauma-sensitive teaching. We explain what trauma is, how to respond, and outline practical strategies for the planning, teaching, feedback, and reflection stages: www.trauma-sensitive-teaching.org/home #tcidul #InclusivePedagogies

Well worth a read even if you don’t write blog posts, as it highlights key considerations for ANY form of writing using AI tools #tcidul

In the 2025 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study | Into the Digital AI Divide, we summarize our community’s sentiments and experiences related to strategy and leadership, policies and guidelines, use cases, the higher education workforce, and the institutional digital divide.

https://buff.ly/42XZqKe

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

I did wonder, Max, but assumed what you meant 😊

As someone who facilitated or led almost every stage of an LMS transition over the past four years (in our case from Sakai to Brightspace), I'm happy to share tips and advice if you/ your colleagues need it at any stage #lms #edtech #ul #matcel

A really useful decision tree for alt text…

This is neat: tokens.for.education. Enter a prompt, generate a response from an AI model, then click on the words in the response to see how likely each of those words was likely to be picked by the model.

h/t Greg Kulowiec's podcast, www.thekulowiecgroup.com

For those educators just joining Bluesky, I have a List containing a growing collection of educators in higher education. May help you identify interesting [eople to extend your new network. Follow the link to access bsky.app/profile/did:... #LTHEchat

Thanks for including me in your list @suebecks.bsky.social 😊

Looking for links to GenAI frameworks, Higher Ed GenAI centres and case studies, GenAI tools, articles on using GenAI in education, and articles on using GenAI (in general)? Checkout this subset of my digital learning resources: tandls.wordpress.com/digital-lear... #genai #tcidul

For those of you asking students to deliver presentations this semester, my freely available book chapter (written for students) might prove useful: researchrepository.ul.ie/articles/jou...

Teaching and Learning Scholarship Dr. Darina M. Slattery on digital learning, communication, and teaching and learning in general.

Delighted to relaunch my website on tandls.wordpress.com as my previous site was wound down in late 2023. While I'm still rebuilding the 'Digital Learning Resources' page, it already includes resources on digital learning, GenAI, accessibility, UDL, etc.
@SEIC_UL #tcidul