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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Feb 21

Love it Mags ❤️
What a great day

Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 28

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

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Reposted by Irene Stone

Julian Girdham @sccenglish.bsky.social · Jan 28

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

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Jan 28

I wrote about the messages teachers should be wary of, messages meant to push them headlong into using AI in and for the classroom.

In this first part of a series I address:

"AI will save you time!"
“You’re avoiding AI out of fear!”
"It's just a tool!"
"Using AI makes you a cutting edge teacher!"

Resisting AI Mania in Schools - Part I

Here are the messages to push back on

annelutzfernandez.substack.com

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thanks for sharing. Great read

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 28

Great article 👏👏

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 28

"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...

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...

world-education-blog.org

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

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

Education after the algorithm: Co-designing critical and creative futures

www.hackthiscourse.com

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

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 😩

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

Thanks John...yep good to be back

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

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.

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

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.

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

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 🤣

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

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

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

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-...

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.

oecd.ai

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

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...

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...

www.linkedin.com

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

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.

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

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

Low-Hanging Fruit: Why AI Lesson Planning Won’t Solve Teacher Workload – Leon Furze

Educators today are facing pressures to incorporate generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Claude into curriculum design and lesson planning. However, research shows that the main c...

leonfurze.com

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

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!

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Jan 27

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

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Dec 8

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.

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Nov 27

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!

Reposted by Irene Stone

Tara Steele @tarasteele.bsky.social · Nov 25

"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...

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...

news-sky-com.cdn.ampproject.org

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Nov 25

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

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.

www.elementsofai.com

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Nov 25

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

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Irene Stone @irenestone.bsky.social · Nov 25

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

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