@eam0
(Post)Digital Learning. Critical Pedagogy. Post-AI futures. Creative methods. Speculative design. Pedagogies of kindness. Teacher education and fac dev. Assoc Prof, Dublin City University - He/Him). Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eamoncostello
ILTA EdTech 2026 Conference 3&4 June Abstract deadline 7 March
Don't delay! Get your abstract submitted to the @iltasky.bsky.social EdTech 2026 Conference now!
Deadline is fast approaching: 7 March.
Visit the conference website to review the conference theme, topics and tracks: ilta.ie/edtech-2026/...
Be a part of this special 25th anniversary EdTech!
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DCU's Dr Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social and Dr Rob Lowney's @lwnyrb.bsky.social piece on who owns my child's data is now available as a @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social podcast. Listen to the podcast or read the article: launch.dcu.ie/402WUQj
"What we must do about AI in Education"
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This excellent editorial by @lucipangrazio.bsky.social pulls together so many important threads in the "AI Literacy" conversation. A concise and valuable resource for anyone doing work in this area.
doi.org/10.1080/1743...
Watson and Crick steal ideas of Rosalind Franklin. Claim discovery of DNA. Win (ig)Nobel prize.
Watson, now pictured with women in Epstein’s house
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“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...
A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”
Make Art (1/4)
Here's a late introduction to help find my people: I'm a grad student exploring AI's role in adult education and democracy at Athabasca University. I'm also a former political party Board Co-President, drum major, estate manager, and a big-picture thinker. #GovGeek #canpoli #academicsky
“The French government announced that it will stop using American video conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and replace them with Visio, a French platform.”
Great interview of @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social in Greek Cypriot newspaper titled:
Οι μεγάλες εταιρείες ΑΙ αποτελούν ένα σύγχρονο παράδειγμα τεχνοφασισμού και συγκεντρωτισμού
The big AI companies are a modern example of technofascism and centralisation
www.philenews.com/politismos/p...
link.springer.com: Technofascism: AI, Big Tech, and the new authoritarianism
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-026-02862-9
Thank you for articulating and acting on your values and principles so clearly.
Last year, we made the decision to step away from X.
The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour.
In our view, X no longer aligns with these values
I also keep copies of achievements, recommendations, 'thank you' emails, etc during all my jobs. Once you've left, you can't access the email for the one crowning statement of working with you that you wanted for your CV. #LTHEChat
Welles is the slightly more kempt, musical version of Slavoj Zizek. See "In the Name of God" by Buffalo Nichols for contrast, which has more soul in a note than Welles can find in an oeuvre www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEXX...
"Sure that factory has been making an industrial quantity of child sex abuse images, but the Government also gets some leaflets printed there."
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
A great read by
@tupped.bsky.social
Rape Crisis Ireland is no longer active on X.
Stay connected with us on these platforms:
Bluesky >> @rapecrisisireland.bsky.social
LinkedIn >> @Rape Crisis Ireland
Facebook >> @RapeCrisisIreland
Instagram >> @rape_crisis_ireland
Thank you for your support!
#FactsNotMyths #SupportingSurvivors
If your academic institution or library is still using X, now is the time to push them to leave. There is no excuse to stay.
Trump must not be allowed to annex Greenland.
I'm doing a thread of everything I've published this year, but amassing everything I'm struck by how fast the Trump admin moved to wreck the country. I figured that they would move a bit more slowly breaking everything, but no, 2025 was the year of the crowbar and the wrecking ball.
(Plz boost!)
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Covid triggered emergency remote teaching, a “temporary” mode that soon solidified baseline expectations of flexibility, scalability, and platform dependence. But it is the uncertainty of when the crisis will end which it has most in common with GenAI.
"Scottish GP Gavin Francis, in hisbook Recovery: The Lost Art Of Convalescence, urges us not to feel guilty about taking time to properly get over things, whether it's illness, grief or disappointment. 'Self-compassion,' he writes, is 'a much-underrated virtue.' He argues that medicine has become too focused on crisis since the advent of antibiotics, and has lost sight of the more holistic approaches to mental and physical suffering that existed before the profusion of modern drugs"
Education under Covid and GenAI is polycrisis pedagogy, fixated upon fixes. Today in FT:
"medicine has become too focused on crisis since the advent of antibiotics and has lost sight of the more holistic approaches to mental and physical suffering that existed before the profusion of modern drugs"
11/ Your computer sending screenshots to microsoft so they can train AIs on it is not inevitable.
10/ "Copilot PCs" are not inevitable. Tiktok is not inevitable.
9/ Ads are not inevitable. Being on a platform owned by Meta is not inevitable. The Apple Vision pro was not inevitable.
8/ Juicero was not inevitable.
7/ Websites that require your ID are not inevitable. Garbage companies using refurbished plane engines to power their data centers is not inevitable.
6/ Your computer changing where things are on every update is not inevitable.