Siobhán
@siobhcr.bsky.social
Irish. Limerick gal living it up in the Déise. Teacher of English & German.
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The death of capital letters: why gen Z loves lowercase
Source: The Guardian
https://buff.ly/4hC8AR8 #langsky
Source: The Guardian
https://buff.ly/4hC8AR8 #langsky
The death of capital letters: why gen Z loves lowercase
Young people have ditched capitalisation in favour of a writing style that reflects their values and attitudes to tradition. Will this change our language for ever?
buff.ly
February 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The death of capital letters: why gen Z loves lowercase
Source: The Guardian
https://buff.ly/4hC8AR8 #langsky
Source: The Guardian
https://buff.ly/4hC8AR8 #langsky
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If you’re a leader at any level,
This is the time to courageously stand up for dignity, respect, empathy and unity.
A global storm is gathering pace. The winds have changed.
Align yourself with the right allies on the right side of history.
This is the time to courageously stand up for dignity, respect, empathy and unity.
A global storm is gathering pace. The winds have changed.
Align yourself with the right allies on the right side of history.
March 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
If you’re a leader at any level,
This is the time to courageously stand up for dignity, respect, empathy and unity.
A global storm is gathering pace. The winds have changed.
Align yourself with the right allies on the right side of history.
This is the time to courageously stand up for dignity, respect, empathy and unity.
A global storm is gathering pace. The winds have changed.
Align yourself with the right allies on the right side of history.
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Fortnightly 183: Donal Ryan | @oldfortunatus.bsky.social & Greg Doran on 'Macbeth' | AI Advisory Council on Education| @marcusluther.bsky.social and @biblioracle.bsky.social discuss writing in the AI age | @conorsmurf.bsky.social on Audiobooks | and more!
juliangirdham.substack.com/p/183-a-tall...
juliangirdham.substack.com/p/183-a-tall...
183: A tall chimneypot hat
Donal Ryan, Emma Smith & Greg Doran, Elizabeth O'Connor, AI & Irish education | John Warner & Marcus Luther, RIP Jennifer Johnston, and more.
juliangirdham.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Fortnightly 183: Donal Ryan | @oldfortunatus.bsky.social & Greg Doran on 'Macbeth' | AI Advisory Council on Education| @marcusluther.bsky.social and @biblioracle.bsky.social discuss writing in the AI age | @conorsmurf.bsky.social on Audiobooks | and more!
juliangirdham.substack.com/p/183-a-tall...
juliangirdham.substack.com/p/183-a-tall...
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#Edchatie meeting this evening starts in 19 minutes from 8.30pm to 9.30pm. Organise your mug of tea / glass of wine / dinner and be ready to flex your typing fingers on the topic ‘AI in Irish education’.
January 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
#Edchatie meeting this evening starts in 19 minutes from 8.30pm to 9.30pm. Organise your mug of tea / glass of wine / dinner and be ready to flex your typing fingers on the topic ‘AI in Irish education’.
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Churchill's play Love and Information was broadcast on @BBCRadio3 last year and was brilliant. If you don't know what all the fuss is about, treat yourself to a great 80 minutes: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
And do sign the petition: www.change.org/p/save-audio...
And do sign the petition: www.change.org/p/save-audio...
January 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Churchill's play Love and Information was broadcast on @BBCRadio3 last year and was brilliant. If you don't know what all the fuss is about, treat yourself to a great 80 minutes: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
And do sign the petition: www.change.org/p/save-audio...
And do sign the petition: www.change.org/p/save-audio...
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Talk underpins all EMC work. Take our approach to journal writing, for example. Students write more effectively if talk comes first. Scaffolding without the frame and endless PowerPoints! Here's an example from our Where the World Ends publication www.englishandmedia.co.uk/publications...
January 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Talk underpins all EMC work. Take our approach to journal writing, for example. Students write more effectively if talk comes first. Scaffolding without the frame and endless PowerPoints! Here's an example from our Where the World Ends publication www.englishandmedia.co.uk/publications...
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Thanks to the many contributors to the excellent discussion on teacher recruitment and retention last night for #edchatie, expertly marshalled by @humphreyjones.bsky.social.
The Irish education community is positive, thoughtful and well-informed.
Details of future sessions on next post.
The Irish education community is positive, thoughtful and well-informed.
Details of future sessions on next post.
January 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Thanks to the many contributors to the excellent discussion on teacher recruitment and retention last night for #edchatie, expertly marshalled by @humphreyjones.bsky.social.
The Irish education community is positive, thoughtful and well-informed.
Details of future sessions on next post.
The Irish education community is positive, thoughtful and well-informed.
Details of future sessions on next post.
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The AI debate has revealed how little people understand about education, as illustrated in this thread.
Education is not about just knowing but thinking as well.
This thread goes through a couple of her points and explains the misunderstanding.
m.independent.ie/opinion/commen…
Education is not about just knowing but thinking as well.
This thread goes through a couple of her points and explains the misunderstanding.
m.independent.ie/opinion/commen…
https://m.independent.ie/opinion/commen…
January 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The AI debate has revealed how little people understand about education, as illustrated in this thread.
Education is not about just knowing but thinking as well.
This thread goes through a couple of her points and explains the misunderstanding.
m.independent.ie/opinion/commen…
Education is not about just knowing but thinking as well.
This thread goes through a couple of her points and explains the misunderstanding.
m.independent.ie/opinion/commen…
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Getting frustrated with all the question begging about changing schools to improve children's mental health and attendance. It isn't at all clear schools are the problem. As people are so fond of pointing out they haven't changed that much. Stop taking the blame for stuff that isn't our fault!
January 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Getting frustrated with all the question begging about changing schools to improve children's mental health and attendance. It isn't at all clear schools are the problem. As people are so fond of pointing out they haven't changed that much. Stop taking the blame for stuff that isn't our fault!
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There is some gorgeous apricity about this morning: (17th century: warming sun on a winter’s day).
January 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
There is some gorgeous apricity about this morning: (17th century: warming sun on a winter’s day).
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Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘crapulence’ (18th century): sickness or indisposition resulting from excessive drinking or eating.
January 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘crapulence’ (18th century): sickness or indisposition resulting from excessive drinking or eating.
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May you find peace and joy in the year ahead. #happynewyear2025
January 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
May you find peace and joy in the year ahead. #happynewyear2025
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You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.
December 31, 2024 at 4:54 AM
You know why I love reading? These days it’s one of the few respites from being constantly advertised to.
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Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
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Here’s a poem called ‘Merry’.
December 24, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Here’s a poem called ‘Merry’.
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Happy solstice, may the longer days bring you even more time to wreak vengeance on your enemies 🧡
December 21, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Happy solstice, may the longer days bring you even more time to wreak vengeance on your enemies 🧡
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Today’s poem is called ‘Tense Christmas’.
December 18, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Today’s poem is called ‘Tense Christmas’.
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We can't simultaneously decry that students can't seem to do anything for themselves and then make a bunch of digital tools that do things for students. Either we're helping them develop their practices (skills, knowledge, attitudes, habits of mind) of a field, or we're not.
December 14, 2024 at 5:55 PM
We can't simultaneously decry that students can't seem to do anything for themselves and then make a bunch of digital tools that do things for students. Either we're helping them develop their practices (skills, knowledge, attitudes, habits of mind) of a field, or we're not.
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just the most beautiful read. thank you @caitlinflanagan.bsky.social, and as always, Seamus Heaney.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment
What Seamus Heaney gave me
www.theatlantic.com
December 15, 2024 at 11:19 AM
just the most beautiful read. thank you @caitlinflanagan.bsky.social, and as always, Seamus Heaney.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Loved this article by Patrick Freyne.
Patrick Freyne: I am becoming a demotivational speaker – let’s all have an averagely productive December
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Patrick Freyne: I am becoming a demotivational speaker – let’s all have an averagely productive December
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Patrick Freyne: I am becoming a demotivational speaker – let’s all have an averagely productive December
I keep meeting people who are extremely burned out. I meet them so often that I’m beginning to think burnout is something that exists by design
www.irishtimes.com
December 15, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Loved this article by Patrick Freyne.
Patrick Freyne: I am becoming a demotivational speaker – let’s all have an averagely productive December
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Patrick Freyne: I am becoming a demotivational speaker – let’s all have an averagely productive December
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Amazing to watch the backlash from classroom teachers in Ireland to the proposal for 40% of a student's marks to be awarded for an assignment that ChatGPT can produce in about three minutes.
Cc @drchendrick.bsky.social
Cc @drchendrick.bsky.social
In this morning’s ’Irish Times’, Breda O’Brien on the naivety of Ireland’s approach to AI in assessment.
One of the reasons @irishsciteach.bsky.social has now dissociated itself from proposed Leaving Cert AACs:
ista.ie/ista-stateme...
refs @humphreyjones.bsky.social @marcwatkins.bsky.social
One of the reasons @irishsciteach.bsky.social has now dissociated itself from proposed Leaving Cert AACs:
ista.ie/ista-stateme...
refs @humphreyjones.bsky.social @marcwatkins.bsky.social
December 14, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Amazing to watch the backlash from classroom teachers in Ireland to the proposal for 40% of a student's marks to be awarded for an assignment that ChatGPT can produce in about three minutes.
Cc @drchendrick.bsky.social
Cc @drchendrick.bsky.social