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"In a human, capitulating after pushback would carry information: they reconsidered, they realized an error, they’re being strategic. In an AI, it reflects that “user challenge followed by apologetic revision” is a common pattern in the training data."
"Agentic AI goes far beyond what large language models like ChatGPT and Claude can execute. Whereas chatbots generate text in response to prompts, AI agents can independently complete multiple tasks on behalf of a user."
"The most common tasks for which instructors allowed students to use AI help were editing and study support. Instructors were most restrictive in the areas of drafting or revising work."
PODCAST: Dr. David Wiley joins podcast 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘌𝘥 𝘔𝘪𝘤 for a conversation about how open education and generative AI are converging
From @hazelfarrell.bsky.social, this framework supports educators in redesigning assessments to ensure they remain valid, fair, transparent, and aligned with learning outcomes in an AI-enhanced educational landscape.
In Conversation with Lawrie Phipps - Gen AI and Academic Practice with Prof. Lawrie Phipps Gen AI Seminar Series 5th March 13:00 - 16:00
As part of our ongoing GenAI seminar series, we are delighted to announce our next online event featuring @lawriephipps.co.uk this Thursday at 3pm Irish time.
👉 More about the event and registration: tel.cit.ie/events
(All welcome)
"Authentic tasks without accountability can produce polished outputs that mask shallow understanding. Accountable assessment without authenticity risks becoming a series of interrogations detached from meaningful practice. Both are needed."
"On today’s job market, instructional designers aren’t just competing with other professionals; they’re being evaluated against AI-enabled performance, and it’s increasingly plausible that employers will soon ask, “Why hire this person instead of relying on AI for this work?”."
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" Used intentionally, AI can surface assumptions in student reasoning, expose gaps in understanding, challenge dominant perspectives, support reflective dialogue, and model disciplinary ways of thinking."
"When we approach it with clarity, respect for attention, and a focus on use, microlearning becomes not just efficient but effective."
"When we shift the emphasis to speaking instead of writing, suddenly the value of writing itself becomes present and urgent instead of vague and, if we can judge by AI’s increasing popularity, unconvincing."
"When asked what AI is actually doing when it responds to a prompt, a whopping 72% got it wrong, with only 28% correctly identifying that the system is “guessing what words should come next based on patterns it learned.” "
"What is productive in one setting may be inappropriate in another. Students experience this inconsistency acutely, particularly when institutional policies feel disconnected from everyday teaching practice."
PODCAST: Leon Furze shares findings from a survey of approximately 3,000 educators related to GenAI.
"Every technological shift involves tradeoffs. The question is which tradeoffs, and for whom. Simple zero-sum framings miss the complexity."
"The Responsible AI for Learning initiative will allow practitioners to share knowledge, interpret guidelines and comply with regulations."
"We should be clear on the difference between offloading and outsourcing, but the more fundamental message is that we’re on an AI train that appears to be heading off a cliff if someone doesn’t apply the brakes—and soon."
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A library database is an electronic collection of published works such as journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Find our databases under eResources on our Cork website (library.cit.ie/e-resources) and Online Resources on our Kerry website (library.ittralee.ie/collections/...).
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"Several studies indicate that although students with access to general-purpose GenAI tools produce higher-quality outputs than their peers, this advantage disappears – and sometimes reverses – in exams when access is removed."
"In Tamagotchigogy, the learner’s understanding plays the role of the Tamagotchi. The educator’s role is to monitor signals, regulate input, support development, and promote active, sustained engagement."
"As students increasingly integrate GenAI into their daily lives and study habits, it is imperative that they know how to apply it in ways that help them, not hurt them."
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"The central project of this century may not be technical mastery but moral and systemic maturity: a collective effort to learn how to live and flourish within an interdependent web of human, ecological, and artificial intelligences."
"By thinking about what a regulated usage system might look like it at least gets us to ask the questions of AI and its implementation that are missing from the current political gold rush."
Leon Furze has put together a post that what’s changed, what’s most important, and what you can actually do with the GenAI in 2026.
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"The cognitive offloading critique rests on a historical fiction: the autonomous learner, working in productive isolation, building cognitive muscle through solo effort. This student never existed, or existed only for the few."
"The tell isn’t that fake citations look wrong. It’s that they look too right. Too convenient. Too perfectly aligned with whatever point the AI is making."
