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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 27/07/2026

Manifesto Monday #2 Efficiency is seductive; wisdom lingers. Agree, disagree, somewhere in between? You rate Statement 15 and add your perspective here: 🔗 manifesto.genain3.ie/15/ #ManifestoMonday #GenAI #HigherEducation

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Irish Learning Technology Association @iltasky.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Can’t make it to EdTech 2026 In Dublin? You can still join us online for the keynote talks by tuning in to our livestream. Click each livestream link on ilta.ie/edtech-2026/ to register in advance for Zoom access from anywhere. #EdTech26 #edusky #academicsky #edtech #learningsciences #sotl

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EdTech 2026 – ILTA

EdTech 2026, the annual conference of the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA), is hosted this year by Dublin City University. This event brings together educators, researchers, technology and...

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Irish Learning Technology Association @iltasky.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The programme has now been published for our #EdTech26 @iltasky.bsky.social conference, in @dcuioe.bsky.social on 3 & 4 June: ilta.ie/edtech-2026/... Reserve your place asap as we will close registration on May 15th 2026 ilta.ie/edtech-2026/...

Please register now and reserve your place if you have not already done so as we will close on May 15th 2026 for registration:

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Bernie Goldbach "topgold" @topgold.ie · 06/05/2026

Good to see @kenmccarthy.ie makes the cut as a "Don't Miss" agenda item. #edtech2026

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 30/04/2026

Really looking forward to these webinars in May and June with the wonderful @leonfurze.com . Starting with a look at the AI Assessment Scale in Practice on May 29th and examining Cognitive Offloading, GenAI, and the Future of Learning on June 10th. All Welcome - Register Here: tiny.cc/lfw26

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Irish Learning Technology Association @iltasky.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We are delighted to welcome @abeba.bsky.social of @aial.ie to @dcuioe.bsky.social for the Irish Learning Technology Association's 25th annual EdTech conference, June 3- 4, 2026. #Edtech26 #edusky We greatly look forward to her keynote talk examining #genAI tools in education! ilta.ie/edtech-2026/...

Dr Brihane is the founder and principal investigator of the AI Accountability Lab, which studies AI technologies and their downstream societal impact, so as to foster a greater ecology of AI accountability.

She is a member of the ADAPT Centre, an Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, has featured in TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, served on the UN's AI Advisory Body and Ireland's AI Advisory Council.

We greatly look forward to hearing her give a keynote address at EdTech 26 at Dublin City University on the 3rd and 4th of June 2026

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 18/02/2026

“Students must learn with GenAI before they can question it.” But should we? In the GenAI:N3 blog, @eam0.bsky.social responds to this Manifesto statement and asks the sharper question: Should we learn with AI? A thoughtful challenge to assumptions about AI in education. 📖 genain3.ie/what-we-must...

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What We Must Do About AI In Education – GenAI:N3

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genain3.ie @genain3.ie · 19/01/2026

Our latest GenAI blog sets the scene for our upcoming #LTHEchat on Wednesday 21st, focused on the Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education. 📖 genain3.ie/teaching-lea... #GenAIN3 #GenerativeAI #HigherEd #TeachingAndLearning #Assessment

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Teaching, Learning, Assessment and GenAI: Moving from Reaction to Intentional Practice – GenAI:N3

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genain3.ie @genain3.ie · 29/12/2025

✨ GenAI:N3 2025 Blog Review ✨ From disruption to shared practice - our weekly blog series traced how higher education is learning with generative AI. Massive thanks to all of our contributors! 📖 Read the review: genain3.ie/2025-review-... #GenAIN3 #AIinEducation #HigherEd

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2025 Review – A Shared Conversation, Built Over Time – GenAI:N3

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genain3.ie @genain3.ie · 22/12/2025

🎓 Universities: GenAI – There’s No Stopping, Start Shaping! In our final post of 2025, @educatefran.bsky.social calls for an end to "AI panic". While we debate, students are often left navigating Big Tech tools in secrecy. 🔗 Read more on GenAI:N3: genain3.ie/universities... #HigherEd #GenAI #EdTech

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Universities: GenAI – There’s No Stopping, Start Shaping! – GenAI:N3

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genain3.ie @genain3.ie · 15/12/2025

🧠🔗 Rebuilding Thought Networks in the Age of AI AI can generate content, but it can’t replace thinking together. This blog from @gravesle.bsky.social asks what we lose when shared intellectual spaces fragment, and how we can rebuild them with intention. 👉 Read & reflect: genain3.ie/rebuilding-t...

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Rebuilding Thought Networks in the Age of AI – GenAI:N3

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genain3.ie @genain3.ie · 08/12/2025

🚀 New blogpost: How we built the Manifesto - and what’s coming next. A short, collaborative set of 30 statements that’s already reached 40 countries. If you care about how AI is reshaping higher ed, this is your invitation to jump in. 🔗 genain3.ie/building-the...

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Building the Manifesto: How We Got Here and What Comes Next – GenAI:N3

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genain3.ie @genain3.ie · 01/12/2025

With guidance from @hazelfarrell.bsky.social , Future music educators at SETU are reimagining how we teach - blending creativity, pedagogy, and AI. Some brilliant student ideas in this new blogpost on the GenAI:N3 website👇 genain3.ie/teaching-the... #AI #MusicEd #HigherEd

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Teaching the Future: How Tomorrow’s Music Educators Are Reimagining Pedagogy – GenAI:N3

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genain3.ie @genain3.ie · 26/11/2025

We’re creating a book to accompany the Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education, and we’re seeking short, 1,000-word essays based on any of the 30 Manifesto statements. EOIs (150 words) due 15 Dec 2025. Form link: forms.gle/nEWRZic9EMLE... Manifesto: genain3.ie/files/manife...

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GenAI:N3 - Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 24/11/2025

New on the GenAI:N3 blog: The Transformative Power of Communities of Practice in AI Upskilling for Educators by @topgold.bsky.social AI capability doesn’t grow in isolation. It grows in community through shared practice, and collective confidence. genain3.ie/the-transfor... #GenAI #HigherEd

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The Transformative Power of Communities of Practice in AI Upskilling for Educators – GenAI:N3

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 17/11/2025

New on GenAI:N3: Kerith George-Briant & Jack Hogan explore a “two-lane” approach to AI in assessment - one secure, one collaborative. Smart, honest, and very human. Read: genain3.ie/this-is-not-... #HigherEd #GenerativeAI #AssessmentDesign

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This is not the end but a beginning: Responding to “Something Wicked This Way Comes” – GenAI:N3

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 10/11/2025

The latest weekly blog post on the GenAI:N3 website (genain3.ie) features Brian Mulligan positing that to overcome the threat from AI, universities may have to reinvent themselves through authentic, applied learning. Ironically, AI might be both the problem and the solution. #GenAI

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AI Could Revolutionise Higher Education in a Way We Did Not Expect – GenAI:N3

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Irish Learning Technology Association @iltasky.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The call for abstracts for the 25th Irish Learning Technology Association's EdTech 2026 Conference is now open. Join us in Dublin in June 2025! See more on ilta.ie/edtech-2026/ #Highered #edchatie #edusky #Heie #edtech26

EdTech You: Digital Learning From How to Who

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 03/11/2025

Another wonderful blog post on the GenAI:N3 website (genain3.ie) this week from Tadhg Blommerde, who shares insights about Dr Strange Syllabus and teaching students to trust themselves... genain3.ie/dr-strange-s...

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Dr. Strange-Syllabus or: How My Students Learned to Mistrust AI and Trust Themselves – GenAI:N3

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 27/10/2025

It might be a public holiday, but it is still Monday, and that means another new blog post on the GenAI:N3 website, this week featuring the thoughts of MTU PhD Researcher Patrick Shields who writes about the role that Higher Education can play in AI adoption by SMEs. genain3.ie/ai-adoption-...

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AI Adoption & Education for SMEs – GenAI:N3

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 09/10/2025

Dr Hazel Farrell @hazelfarrell.bsky.social presenting the work of GenAI:N3 @genain3.bsky.social at the Council of Europe Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education - Ensuring quality education in the AI era in Strasbourg. #GenAI #SETU

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 30/09/2025

The first of the GenAI:N3 Weekly Blog posts comes from the always entertaining Jim O'Mahony, SFHEA, with a link-packed roundup of where we are now and an existential question about where we left the remote control! Well worth the read... #genai #genain3 #ntutorr genain3.ie/something-wi...

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Something Wicked This Way Comes – GenAI:N3

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 27/03/2025

Just 10 days to go to the third "Sustainability in the Arts" festival in South East Technological University, this award-winning festival promises to be better than ever, well done to @hazelfarrell.bsky.social and her incredible team.

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Sustainability in the Arts Festival Brochure 2025

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 12/03/2025

Super proud of this amazing educator and colleague, @hazelfarrell.bsky.social who won a SATLE impact award for the Sustainability in the Arts Festival in SETU. #SATLE

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Irish Learning Technology Association @iltasky.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Next up on our calendar is our annual EdTech conference this May. We’re headed to Waterford to the sunny South East Technological University as hosts. Stay tuned for more details, including our call for papers coming soon!

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Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Yesterday @tudublinsustain.bsky.social launched the Digital Badge - Education for Sustainability w 250 academic staff across Ireland. This collab with ATU and SETU shows #DigitalEducation can build capacity at scale in #ESD @iltasky.bsky.social @ntutorr.ie @carinaginty.bsky.social @kenmccarthy.ie

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 11/12/2024

David Deneiffe @ddenieffe.bsky.social kicks off the student panel at DEC24 @dec24conf.bsky.social acknowledging the support of N-TUTORR @ntutorr.ie

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 11/12/2024

Leigh Graves Wolf @gravesle.bsky.social talking about the transformational power of N-TUTORR @ntutorr.ie during her keynote at the DEC 24 conference in Waterford @dec24conf.bsky.social

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 24/11/2024

Well worth watching, lots of food for thought!

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 20/11/2024

We have been keeping this under wraps for a few months in preparation for the N-TUTORR showcase and Autumn Lecture Series. Special thanks to Corina Power for organising it all and Sean Corcoran (The Art Hand) for making it a reality. #ntutorr #SETU It was worth waiting for...

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SETU N-TUTORR Project Commissioned Sand Art Piece

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 19/11/2024

A busy day in Dundalk at the N-TUTORR Future Planning Workshop. A lot done...

Workshop outputs and timeline of the N-TUTORR project.

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Bantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

After a lot of consideration, we’ve decided to leave our virtual learning environment. There are too many students on there asking for help.

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N-TUTORR @handle.invalid · 18/11/2024

Just 8 days to go until the N-TUTORR Showcase. There will be 3 plenary sessions, including a panel of Presidents from our partner HEIs, talking about the future of the TU sector in Ireland. Don't miss it. Sign up at the link below. #NextGenerationEU #TransformingLearning #NTUTORRShowcase

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 18/11/2024

Got a new sticker for my office door! Thanks to @plantsoup.bsky.social

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 18/11/2024

I just updated my BlueSky handle from @kenmccarthy7.bsky.social to @kenmccarthy.ie if you have your own domain you should give it a try, you can find it in advanced settings under change handle. #speirgorm

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 17/11/2024

Photos of me in my happy place(s), almost all of the Lego Stores that I have managed to visit, Manchester, Dublin, Blanchardstown, Munich and Barcelona, the ones I missed getting were the Lego House in Billund and the one at Billund Airport. Hope to get to a lot more... #lego #happyplace

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 16/11/2024

Saddened to hear about the passing of Jon Kenny, a giant of Irish comedy and one of the funniest people I ever saw. Before there was the D'Unbelievables it was Jon and his solo show, this was his version of Spancil Hill. #rastanirish Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam

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Jon Kenny - Spancil Hill (Reggae)

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 16/11/2024

Trying out this Starter Pack thing, they don't make it easy.... Please let me know the ones I missed. go.bsky.app/FYCvaV6

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 15/11/2024

The seventh and final lecture in the N-TUTORR Autumn Lecture Series took place last night in SETU. Speaking on the theme of EDI we heard from Dr Allison Kenneally and Dr Cara Daly on how now more than ever EDI needs to be reflected in all of what we do in higher education.

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Hazel Farrell @hazelfarrell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Collaboration, fun, wonderful insights, and lots of great learning at our Gen AI Hackathon today in SETU! @n-tutorr.bsky.social @kenmccarthy7.bsky.social #genAI #highereducation

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 13/11/2024

You still have time to register to attend the final lecture in the N-TUTORR Autumn Lecture Series on the theme of EDI, looking forward to hearing my colleagues Dr Allison Kenneally and Dr Cara Daly. Details and registration: registration.crowdcomms.com/n-tutorr

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 10/11/2024

Delighted to get the opportunity to participate with @n-tutorr.bsky.social colleagues in the EDEN Digital Education Leadership Academy in Barcelona.

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 06/10/2024

Beautiful autumnal colours in JFK Arboretum today.

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Ken McCarthy @kenmccarthy.ie · 22/09/2024

Wonderful addition to Cullenstown Strand in County Wexford, super idea that I'm sure will make many children happy!

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N-TUTORR @handle.invalid · 20/09/2024

N-TUTORR has joined Blue Sky! Transforming learning for a digital world. We want to transform teaching, learning, and the student experience in the Technological University sector. We want to create sustainable digital ecosystems that empower staff and students within a changing world.

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