Irene Stone

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What a great day

But all I want to know is Tianammen square a nice place to visit?

Following last night's #edchatie discussion about AI in Irish education, this will all be of interest to teachers here.

Thanks for sharing. Great read

Great article 👏👏

The Trojan Horse in the classroom: navigating AI’s impact on the International Day of Education  - World Education Blog AI has a special allure for many education experts who believe in its potential to revolutionize teaching methodologies, personalize learning experiences and streamline administrative tasks. But while...

"Everyone’s talking about which AI tool to use, but nobody’s talking about why we’re using them in the first place" by Manos Antoninis
The Trojan Horse in the classroom: navigating AI’s impact on the International Day of Education #edchatie
world-education-blog.org/2025/01/24/t...

Thank you Emer. It's exciting, I'm learning so much. Will be presenting some early findings @dcuioe.bsky.social www.hackthiscourse.com/symposium/#/

To be fair I would say that lots of people aren't even aware of this issue...honestly! And that's from having discussions with colleagues.

And of course not forgetting all the other ethical issues around using AI in education.

Too much hype, too much bells and whistles, not enough questioning 😩

Thanks John...yep good to be back

In CS space, much of the literature and my own research would say novice programmers should not use AI. I would think it's the same for other fields too.

I do similar in my maths class & that's coming from someone who loves tech & teaches CS!! I'm using less and less tech in the maths class recently..Students need to discuss what they're thinking, and show the "mess of learning" in their copies.

Will send DM. LinkedIn is great for all this stuff. Has been great for my research, for connecting with people but also my own learning ! I'm learning all the time..we need to model this with our students as well. Learning about AI is not about using it..in fact the more I learn the less I use it 🤣

Are we entering "model collapse"? 🤷‍♀️ Lots written up about this too.

How much water does AI consume? The public deserves to know Air pollution and carbon emissions are well-known environmental costs of AI. But water consumption is also an issue.

We have to discuss environmental implications of AI! Not spoken about enough unfortunately.
We have a duty to inform ourselves and our students of these ethical issues and model good practice.
Do we have to use AI for every post, lesson, image generation? #edchatie
oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-...

AI will eat itself "Ouroboros is an emblematic serpent of ancient Egypt and Greece represented with its tail in its mouth, continually devouring itself and being reborn from itself" (Britannica, 2024) The web is being p...

And takes stuff from itself....because there's so much AI generated stuff out there , it's starting to eat itself... As written by @eam0.bsky.social in this linkedin post
www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-eat...

I have loads of interesting articles and links but maybe they need a separate thread 😃 a discussion around "AI in education" needs to go beyond "the tools". We owe it to our students to learn ABOUT AI before USING it. This is as recommended by UNESCO and other country guidelines.

@leonfurze.com has some great blogs about this ...this one on "teacher workload" well worth a read. leonfurze.com/2024/08/16/l...

The narrative out there is that it does make your job easier ..but says who? We need to be critical of this discourse. One of the most enjoyable parts of teaching for me is designing lessons, I don't want an algorithm to do that for me!

Irene Stone, CS and Maths teacher and EdD student @dcuioe.bsky.social research interests generative AI and programming. Also have big interest in AI in education in general #edchatie

Irene Stone and Dr Margaret Leahy

Dr Fiona King, DCU and Irene Stone

Deeply grateful to receive the John Smith scholarship @dcuioe.bsky.social, an award established to honour the legacy of Dr. John Smith in advancing academic excellence. Thanks to the DCU team, my #EdD colleagues, and my supervisors for their support.

My 5th yr students (age ~15-17) are struggling to understand the difference between rule-based and ML AI.
Going to try this unplugged activity tmw. Good old fashioned cutting and pasting 😀
Learning about AI before using AI!

AI-generated child abuse images increasing at 'chilling' rate - as watchdog warns it is now becoming hard to spot Creating explicit pictures of children is illegal, even if they are generated using AI, and Internet Watch Foundation analysts work with police forces and tech providers to trace images they find onli...

"The amount of AI-generated child abuse images found on the internet is increasing at a chilling rate, according to a national watchdog."
These disturbingly realistic images can be generated from real children's images from social media.
news-sky-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/news.sky...

A free online introduction to artificial intelligence for non-experts Learn more about MinnaLearn's and the University of Helsinki's AI course - no programming or complicated math required.

A mixture of resources:

Elements of AI www.elementsofai.com/ie
Experience AI
experience-ai.org/en/units/exp...
@raspberrypi.bsky.social and @cs4fn.bsky.social

Looking forward to more lessons about intelligence and AI
Learning about AI before going near using ANY AI!

Picnic wants to say hello to Blue Sky and also to @number10cat.bsky.social

Brilliant!!

Had fun with the "intelligent piece of paper" 5th yr CS students. Led to great discussions on algorithms, pseudocode and what intelligence really means thanks to @cs4fn.bsky.social for lesson idea! teachinglondoncomputing.org/resources/in...

Who remembers Tallaght in the late 80s? www.rte.ie/archives/202...

Marine litter on Irish shores declining - survey Marine litter, including plastic bottles, cans and drink container lids, is in decline along the country's foreshores, according to Coastwatch Ireland.

Some good news! The deposit return scheme on plastic bottles is working, according to coastwatch! www.rte.ie/news/2024/11...
Need to do coffee cups now!

Honoured to present "Beyond the Hype: Navigating the AI Seascape" at the ACCS In-School Management Conference
A call for critical thinking: don't rush to adopt AI in schools without asking loads of questions!!!
Learn about AI before using AI
#ethics #edchatie