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As part of our Wellbeing Policy I have installed one of these in the staffroom. For every pink or red vote there will be a Croke Park hour added. Your move.

Some pertinent questions raised here by Aine Hyland about LC reform 🙌 tech like AI is a game changer for assessment but it is more the access to it and support of it, both in schools and home that, much like the old digital divide, could further impact on less advantaged pupils

75 years ago, the Soviet Union deported 95,000 people from the occupied Baltic states to forced settlement for life in Siberia. 70% of them were women and children under 16 At least 1785 of them were unaccompanied minors, 2850 were solitary elderly, and 146 were handicapped

Good Friday should be made a public holiday to end the “confusion” for workers that surrounds the day - Labour Party's Senator Marie Sherlock newstalk.com/news/labour-ca…

Totally…. Has been my mantra most of my life but has really kicked in since I started my teaching journey 5 years ago x

Michael Gillespie on RTE’s This Week programme – Teachers need to be allowed to teach rather than deflected by ‘empty’ bureaucratic duties and form-filling #TUI24

‘Work is considered decent when it pays a fair income, it guarantees security, safe working conditions and equal opportunities for all. Governments have a responsibility to create these conditions.’

Ursula O'Connor from Co. Donegal branch believes human interaction is at the heart of quality education and artificial intelligence must not be allowed to be a substitute for face to face teaching. #tui24

David Waters condemns government policy which has escalated the housing crisis and exacerbated the recruitment and retention crisis in education. #tui24

'People are sick of the Croke Park hours,' Congress hears and responds with applause. And after a very busy day, that's it for today. Enjoy your evening and see you all tomorrow morning! #TUI24

A new government AND Taoiseach with no general election, what’s up with that? Ben Finnegan explains 💬

Many thanks to Breda O’Brien for highlighting the ISTA report and on the struggles with a learning outcomes only model for LC Sciences.

As Dennis Shirley & I argued in 5 Paths of Student Engagement in 2021, digital devices are an enemy of student engagement. See OECD's report from PISA 2022 data: via William Doyle - Andreas Schleicher Yong Zhao, Ph.D Pasi Sahlberg Tiffany Bastin Jenny Gilruth Richard Gerver Megan Cotnam-Kappel, PhD

The loss of cheaper degrees via Open University has, to my mind, been one of the biggest losses in education of the past 14 years. I’ve written about it repeatedly: theguardian.com/education/2013…

#education #identity #uncrc ‘Every child in the State should have the opportunity to be educated through Irish,’ committee told irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

#socialmedia #disinformation A new investigation has found that video-sharing platform TikTok approved 16 advertisements targeting Ireland that contained election disinformation. rte.ie/news/technolog…

The cyberwar is not only being fought, it's being won. Russian hackers targeted websites of Irish Rail, Bus Eireann, Transport for Ireland, the Oireachtas,the Leap Card app and the voter registration portal in the lead up to last Friday's polling day. thetimes.com/world/ireland-…

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