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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Can we fly all them Irish flags at half mast for a while? Because if you only support half the people in Ireland then you're only half Irish. Manosphere in the GAA? Níl. #SpéirGhorm

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The real answers are out there. The facts can be mined right onto the blockchain of truth. All you need are power, faith and a little prompting

Build with AI
I can prompt the right AI tools to get a real result, using AI as a tool rather than a replacement for thinking.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Teachers, books, and humans are unecessary. Universities are a scam. The professors are the enemy. Let machines do your thinking while they tell you are finally thinking for yourself.

With no teacher, textbook, or study guide provided, teach yourself a full unit of a college-level AP course in five days.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Humiliating and abusing students is not learning. It's sadism.

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I can take critical feedback without falling apart.

The test
While wearing a heart-rate monitor, listen to a recording of your parents giving you at least three pieces of honest, critical feedback. To pass, you have to take it in calmly and bring your heart rate back within 10% of your resting baseline. It is a lesson in hearing hard truths without shutting down.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Alpha School has nothing to do with AI. It is a Spartan deathcult to abuse young people

Through Bootcamp, failure becomes common rather than shameful, and students learn to recover faster, figure out what they need to change, and keep going without it affecting their sense of self. T

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Talking about AI in Education with my dog in the woods

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Having trouble breaking up with your X? A video short I made earlier this year using mostly stock footage from CapCut and the song by Robyn Call your Girlfriend

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

‘…such ‘everything machines’ promise us unlimited choice, infinite synthetic optionality. They break the world such that everything is ‘optionalized’ (McDonald and Costa, 2024) and architect an extreme personalization from which we can inexhaustively extract’

cloud infrastructure and legal teams to fight the owners of the data taken to train the models. Indeed, the does not appear to be, thus far, any legal or ethical ways to build GenAl technologies as they are currently understood. Nonetheless such 'everything machines' promise us unlimited choice, infinite synthetic optionality. They break the world such that everything is 'optionalized' (McDonald and Costa, 2024) and architect an extreme personalization from which we can inexhaustively extract.
Two prominent architectural forms of Authoritarian EdTech are Hostile Architecture and Monumental Architecture. Benjamin (2019) illustrates hostile architecture via cruelly designed park benches that excluc homeless people from public spaces via environmental force. Authoritarianism requires hostile architectures for the creation, criminalization and persecution of 'others'. Trump terminated educational

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Israel’s military confirmed the authenticity of the photo." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Image of man in underwear, blindfold and bound to iron rod

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

When we talk about AI in Education We may be talking about a form of Technological determinism Instrumentalism Anthropomorphism Socio-technical imaginary Political economy Cognitivism Which if it were an object might be a Force Tool Human Future Product Brain

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Will AI save me time? Do we measure work by how much time it takes? Or time by what we work on?

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

As someone from rural Ireland I was deeply honoured when @elaineburke.bsky.social introduced me as “the AI man” on a panel at the Media Literacy Ireland Conference. I am bullish about AI’s future prospects as it did help power the economy of North Tipperary for many years when I was growing up 🐂

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

From Stinking Thinking to Fragrant Futures: An Expert Exchange on Educational Futures Thinking Sept 26th @dcuioe.bsky.social Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

From Stinking Thinking to Fragrant Futures: An Expert Exchange on Educational Futures Thinking
This expert exchange invites you to be part of a dialogue that explores the role of Futures Thinking in education and engage in a reclamation of socio-technical imaginaries of what our world and our society could be, that are rooted in democracy, sustainability, ethics, relational pedagogies, mutuality, hope and beauty. You are called to give up stinking thinking and arrive in the beauty of the present direct from the future with expert researchers pursuing a diversity of inquiries in the field of educational futures that explore:

Generative AI, anticipatory ethics and speculative design with students and teacher educators
What is known about the current knowledge and competencies of teacher educators in Ireland, North and South, on Futures Thinking
How Futures Workshoping can be used as a participatory methodology to support community democratic dialogue

Featured speakers:
Dr Valeria Prias & Dr Stefania Bocconi, National Research Council of Italy
Dr Manuel Fernandez Lopez, DCU IoE, PI of SCoTENS FuturesNow project
Dr Michal Wieczorek Ad Astra Fellow, Univeristy College Dublin
Aisling Silke, DCU IoE, PI of Erasmus+ Enhance Project

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

"Call your girlfriend It's time you had the talk" - Robyn (2010) "Call your Girlfriend" Video created with CapCut Pro .

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Thank you @eunis-community.bsky.social for the opportunity to be a featured speaker at #EUNIS25 Congreas and talk about AI and wellbeing. Great to spent time in Ulster University and Belfast, a city which is internationally known for its street art.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Really interesting work by Dr Fiona Concannon @teltales.bsky.social at #EdTech25 on surveying students about their digital learning experience

So, what's this all about?

Who we are in CELT

We primarily work with staff, helping them develop their digital competencies.

We also engage with students through our DigiChamps project.

In 2019, we participated in the Irish National Digital Experience (INDEX) Survey, a national study on digital learning.

We've also part of CUTIE a project that Includes partners with the Uof Copenhagen, doing similar survey work to encourage open discussions.

Our Study

In January 2025, we surveyed all undergraduate and postgraduate students and received over 1,209 responses.

For comparison, our previous INDEX survey in 2019 received 2,937 responses

We asked students who supports them the most to use digital technology in their learning
Analysis of biggest source of support Who is the most supportive?
2019
2025
40%
28%
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Lecturers
21%
27% 28%
Online Videos and resources
We asked students who supports them the most to use digital technology in their learning
Other students
23%
3
Al
11%
8% 9%
Friends and family
Other support staff
3% 4%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Billy Drop Tables had a child! Prompt injection attack.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

He's not wrong. Schools will always exist and involve human beings caring for each other.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"Zero Trust" I hope you now feel "Connected"

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Despite his concerns, Costello is optimistic ... Schools have never been better environments for our kids in this country. They have never been safer, kinder places. We've never had more qualified, enthusiastic teachers, and more upskilled teachers. We`re definitely in a golden age," he says.

in Barcelona." Despite his concerns, Costello is optimistic and points to the positive. Schools have never been better environments for our kids in this country. They have never been safer, kinder places. We've never had more qualified, enthusiastic teachers, and more upskilled teachers. We`re definitely in a golden age," he says.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I'm in da paper. Talking eedtech in schools and Ai in education in the Sunday Business Post

Dr Eamon Costello is also focused on tech but he makes the point that it's just part of a rich panoply of
experiences that are essential in an educational setting..
"You can use tech as a teaching tool, to differentiate instruction, to get diagnositic information from student, to figure out of they're learning what they're being taught"

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I am delighted to be an invited speaker at the 2025 International Conference on Education Development and Studies in Oxford. My talk: “I'll come back for you later”: The forgotten pedagogies of post-AI futures I am travelling on Toblerone so if you are there please come and say hi! 🍫 🔺

come with me if you want to live the forgotten pedagogies of post ai futures

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

THESE are the emails I love to get.

to me

Dear Student/Work Colleague/Friend/Mom,

Thank you for your email, I am unavailable due to:

[x] Annual leave

[ ] Illness

] Personal reasons

[ ] Abduction by aliens

[ ] Will answer your mails with a slight delay

[x] Will reply once I return to the office (returning March 4th)

[ ] Please contact the UFO hotline for assistance

Warmly,

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"Sweet child o' mine" a poignant song by Professor Axel Rose about how he used his kids to assemble 140 lanyards on the eve of a conference.

FIND SOMEONE WITH THE SAME COLOUR SHOES AS YOU...

FIND SOMEONE WITH THE SAME INITIAL AS YOU

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PICK AN EMOJI TOGETHER AND DRAW IT HERE

WRITE THEIR NAME HERE

FIND A

AI DOOMSTER

AL BOOSTER A

AI BOOMOOSTER

FIND A PIECE OF

SUN OR WIND OR RAIN

AND DRAW A RELEVANT A.I. EMOJI HERE

VISUAL THINKERY

AND PUT ANYTHING YOU LIKE HERE

Education AFTER THE ALGORITHM.

WRITE OR DOODLE YOUR NAME here

Co-funded by the European Union

DCU

Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath Dublin City University

AALBORG UNIVERSITY

UNI GRAZ

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Please call the relevant authorities if you recognise any of the people in this photo. They are believed to be still at large and are described as "unhinged". For unspeakable pedagogical crimes they are due to be deported from an elevator 🛗

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

#CSET2025 Dublin chapter of Critical Studies of Education and Technology. Key decisions finally made by the organisers on the official vibe and dress code.

Hello kitty in a pink dress smashing a laptop with a hammer

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Social media: where papers go to flap freely

Every writer I know feels this way about someone else. Writing is such a solitary activity. You have no assurance that what you're creating has any value, and any indication that you're behind in the rat race sends you spiraling into the pits of despair. Keep your eyes on your own paper, they say. But that's hard to do when everyone else's papers are flapping constantly in your face.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Fixed it for you: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI were sent detailed questions but did not respond on the record about the ChatGPT search function.

Larsen said there were broader issues with combining search and large language models - known as LLMs, the technology behind ChatGPT and other chatbots - and responses from AI tools should not always be trusted.

"always not be"

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Thank friends in BYU for the opportunity to have so many enriching interactions with students, professors instructional designers and to see a cougar in its natural habitat (the Marriott basketball arena). I am humbled to have spent time in such a beautiful place and such a treasury of learning.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The Practice of Neurosurgery on Saturn doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

Practice of neurosurgery on Saturn

The practice of neurosurgery on Saturn is almost identical to the one practiced on Earth. Because the art of practice of Medicine was transferred by homo sapiens sapiens “exearthed” 30 years ago from Earth to Saturn.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

4/5 pieced together to reveal a world of stark inequities and digital and biological fractures. These fractures prefigured a bleak colonization of humankind by a deepmind hive Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Fig. 1) that caused us to become forever isolated from ourselves and that

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

3/5 possibilities of post-pandemic educational futurities. Our work centres on the ramblings of an unknown scholar who, on the cusp of a post-scientific world, screams a maddened poem into the void titled ‘The Pandemic will not be on Zoom’. The events surrounding this poem are

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“Sometimes in life you have to do things that you do not want to. Many times that’s what the hell life is; 1 vile, effing task after another.” Al Swearengen _ Deadwood. But sometimes you get to do things you really want to And it feels like that’s all there is One beautiful thing after another

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Tomorrow I give a talk at the International Professional Development Association conference. I am working on some new ideas about moving from storied self to no-self. And the importance of walks and outdoor learning.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Great day running a workshop for Irish teachers and school leaders on GenAI. We worked on developing an AI policy for schools. We talked about hwo would be included in policy making, what it would enable/restrict and how it would be supported. One suggestion was a tax on Big Tech to pay for it...

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Submissions already coming in for this symposium that seeks to bring people to think together and to think otherwise so as to plot critical and creative post-AI educational futures. Please spread the word and come join us: www.hackthiscourse.com/symposium/#/

Education after the Algorithm: Co-designing Critical and Creative Futures

Please come and help us think together and think otherwise to craft critical and creative post-AI futures.

Anina Takeff for Artists ForClimate.org (CC-BY-NC-SA)

POWER PLANTS

Feb 20-21 2025

Online & in Dublin City University

Keynote speakers: Prof Martin Weller

Dr Helen Beetham – Prof Punya Mishra

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

In this case do judge a book by it's great cover

Access is capture - how edtech reproduces racial inequality

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