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Katrina Joyce
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Instructional Designer | Learning Technologist | Higher Education

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New education technologies are only as powerful as the communities that guide their use. Opening a new browser tab is easy; creating the conditions for good learning is hard.
#AI #EdTech #Education

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What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools
It can take years to collect evidence that shows effective uses of new technologies in schools. Unfortunately, early guesses sometimes go seriously wrong.
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October 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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How the tech industry wants you to think about AI | Fiona Katauskas www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How the tech industry wants you to think about AI | Fiona Katauskas
It doesn’t
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August 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Current applications of AI in medical education exist as small-scale pilots rather than mature, scaled implementations - The challenge isn’t technological, nor is it innovation. It is building the infrastructure to translate these pilots into educational practice.
#MedEd
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AI in medical education: 5 ways schools are employing new tools
Artificial intelligence is being tapped to create quizzes, simulate patients, pinpoint student struggles, and write assessments. Humans remain ‘in the loop.’
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April 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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The researchers behind this study wanted to find out whether the same lifestyle factors that shape basic thinking skills might also relate to the higher-level processes people use to guide and regulate their thinking
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Metacognitive abilities are linked to physical activity, diet, and sleep quality
Your daily habits may influence more than just your physical health—they could shape how you plan, monitor, and reflect on your own thinking, according to a new study in PLOS One.
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April 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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My most favourite review, ever!
April 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Dysgraphia can look like messy handwriting, but it’s a lot more than that and can be a serious obstacle to academic success for some students.

Do you know what to look for and how to help kids who struggle with writing?

#EduSky #InclusiveEd

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What Teachers Should Know About Dysgraphia. Signs to look out for and evidence-based ways to help kids who struggle with writing. By Youki Terada.
March 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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"We firmly believe that assessments should be a learning opportunity for students, not just a means to measure performance. Our approach focuses on assessing to learn, not teaching to assess!"
#EduSky #HigherEducation #AuthenticAssessment

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#LTHEchat 321: Podcasting as assessment
Led by Jonatan Berhane @jonatanberhane.bsky.social and Nicole Blythe @njblythe18.bsky.social Part of the UoS Nursing Associate Programme Team (Nic, Karen, Sofia and myself) recording our first podc…
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March 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Students from working class backgrounds still make up only 5% of entrants to medical schools across the UK.

This is what happens when widening participation is an activity rather than a central guiding mission.
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Only 5% of UK medical school entrants are working class, data shows
Sutton Trust says underrepresentation of poorer students is ‘outrageous’ but number has doubled in 10 years to 2022
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February 27, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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AI detection tools are better than humans at spotting AI. But do nothing to address the core problem of designing AI proof authentic assessments that equals confidence in student knowledge and skills.
#HigherEd #EdTech #AuthenticAssessment #EduSky

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AI-detection software isn’t the solution to classroom cheating — assessment has to shift
If educators want to make valid inferences about what students know and can do, assessments like drafts, works-in-progress and repeated observations of student learning are needed.
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February 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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'In the GenAI era, the only way that we can guarantee academic integrity, and ensure the person being given a qualification actually knows something about the subject, is through supervised, in-person assessment.'

#AcademicIntegrity #GenAI ##HigherEducation

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What happens when ChatGPT takes a university exam?
It's clear that GenAI tools can already effectively deal with and solve many of the topics taught to university students
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February 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Well, that's just completely unnecessary.
#NewFearUnlocked

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Newly discovered fungal species makes zombies of cave spiders on island of Ireland
Dr. Harry Evans, Emeritus Fellow at CAB International, led scientists—including from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and Royal Botanical Gardens Kew—in a study to investigate the identity of a f...
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January 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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"So here's my plea to our incoming government. Please abandon the concept of a Galway Ring Road ... Instead, spend a billion euros on building transformative public transport and active travel infrastructure across our small city."
#ClimateAction #PublicTransport
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Ciarán Cannon: We cannot consider going ahead with the Galway Ring Road
Ciarán Cannon says recent legal rulings should spell the end of plans for the Galway Ring Road project.
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January 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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We should be bolder in testing medical AI systems in real-world settings, rather than just in the lab or simulations
#AI #HealthCare

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A healthy dose of AI can improve medical care and save lives
Done right, with real-world evidence to back up the claims and persuade doctors to adopt it, artificial intelligence has the power to enhance clinical outcomes
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January 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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🚨⚡New Paper with @imogenc23.bsky.social @rupertwegerif.bsky.social and team 💡

Using AI to Support Education for Collective Intelligence

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#CollectiveIntelligence #AI #Education #HigherEd
Using AI to Support Education for Collective Intelligence - International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in education, but mostly to support individual teaching and learning. However, there are good reasons to think that thinking together and solvin...
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December 30, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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AI is become more sophisticated & rapidly becoming a favourite among students for their interactive and personalized support. #AI #HigherEducation #EdTech #LearningTechnology #StudentSupports

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AI Agents Will Shape Every Aspect Of Education In 2025
In 2025 AI Agents will dominate discussions of AI in education. More than just a tool, AI agents, using rich video interfaces, will drive robust educational experiences.
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December 27, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Trends shaping 2025 are not about innovation for its own sake but about preparing students for a future that prioritizes adaptability, human-centric skills, and cognitive problem solving
#EdTech ##HigherEducation #2025

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Three EdTech Trends Shaping Education In 2025
Discover how educational leaders are reshaping schools in 2025 through AI-driven personalized learning, immersive technologies in CTE, & human-centered leadership.
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December 23, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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"We want the new government to make this a top priority, so we need a citizens’ assembly, a real plan for inclusive education and better support and resources.”
#Inclusion #HigherEducation
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‘People make assumptions about us’: How third level is becoming a real option for people with intellectual disabilities
Universities are providing more programmes for disabled students - but learners say we need to do far more to promote greater inclusion in education
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December 17, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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Lead is neurotoxic and can erode brain cells and alter brain function after it enters the body. Young children are especially vulnerable to lead’s ability to impair brain development and alter brain health.
#MentalHealth #Toxic #Millennial
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Born Before 1996? According to Scientists, Leaded Gas May Have Permanently Altered Your Personality
Harmful lead exposure from air, water, and soil impacts the well-being of 151 million Americans. In 1923, lead was introduced into gasoline to improve car engine performance. However, this boost to au...
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December 16, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Every 2 years we run a showcase to celebrate and share insights from the wide range of teaching & learning activities @ucc.bsky.social. Last year's showcase had a riveting keynote by Randy Bass, VP of Strategic Education Initiatives, Georgetown University @issotl www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl_A...
The Forking paths of the Learning Paradigm: what's the role of education in a Transformative Future?
YouTube video by CIRTL UCC
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December 2, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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Migration ongoing from X.
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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December 2, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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Interactive orals are coming for you, check out our paper that just won best concise paper at #ascilite2024. None of my co-authors are on bluesky (yet), but they are Adrian Norman, Stephanie Wilson and Jo Nash. We've got a bunch more data, look out. publications.ascilite.org/index.php/AP...
Marking ‘on the fly’ in interactive oral assessments in Business | ASCILITE Publications
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December 2, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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I’ve heard that having a child will test one’s patience but tbh showing senior faculty how to navigate Outlook and upload documents to our LMS is testing me more than my child ever has
November 26, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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The AI Accountability Lab aims to foster transparency and accountability in the development and use of AI systems," Dr Birhane said
#AI #HigherEducation

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AI accountability lab launched at Trinity College Dublin
A new research group designed to advance accountability in artificial intelligence (AI) has been launched at Trinity College Dublin.
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November 28, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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In an age where generative AI can generate complex responses in seconds, replacing the final written exam with oral assessments has led to zero academic integrity breaches since the format was implemented

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Voice from the past: how one university is countering AI with ancient examination techniques
The University of South Australia is reintroducing the oral tradition of viva voce to test students’ knowledge more effectively
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November 26, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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AI and Crispr could open up new solutions for improving natural carbon capture and environmental sustainability.
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Combining AI and Crispr Will Be Transformational
The genome-editing technology can be supercharged by artificial intelligence—and the results are already being felt.
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November 26, 2024 at 11:39 PM