Steve Welsh
@stevedotedu.bsky.social
Learning Technologist at Dublin City University On the clock: EdTech Advocate+Skeptic, AI in T&L, Media Studies, Digital Humanities On my own time: synth nerd, woodwind noodler, camera junkie, cyclist, cinephile, modernist, lefty rabble rouser
#EdTech26 folks, it'd be great to welcome you back to campus later this month!
Steve Welsh@stevedotedu.bsky.social · 2mo agoOn 24th June, DCU will serve as a local hub for the #DigAcc26 conference. Participants from the greater Dublin area are welcome to join us at DCU to engage with the conference sessions together! Info and registration: www.dcu.ie/dcu-communit...
On 24th June, DCU will serve as a local hub for the #DigAcc26 conference. Participants from the greater Dublin area are welcome to join us at DCU to engage with the conference sessions together! Info and registration: www.dcu.ie/dcu-communit...
Up first this morning: DCU's VPAA Lisa Looney and our morning keynote from Felicitas Macgilchrist speaking on "Fragile generations: Edtech as infrastructures of feeling". #EdTech26 @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy @iltasky.bsky.social
Very festive #EdTech26 conference dinner last night! Very nice to see our Pat's canteen all dressed up. Was a night of great chats and ideating. (Not pictured: post-dinner pints) Mighty craic!
Ben Williamson's #EdTech26 Day 1 keynote: "Fabricating EdTech Futures: projecting, prototyping, pilot testing and product trialling" @benpatrickwill.bsky.social @iltasky.bsky.social
The European Parliament is ditching Google as its default search engine in favor of French service Qwant. (That’s the one I use too!)
European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns
The switch lands as EU officials prepare a broader push to wean off US tech.
politico.eu
My #Edtech26 poster: "Mapping the Messiness A worked example of thematic analysis for interpreting lecturers’ experience in a GenAI pilot study", based on my collaborative TA research with Seamus Campau (pictured). drive.google.com/file/d/1GhCr...
Some exciting evidence and findings from my wonderful colleagues at the TEU, presenting their Rich Picture Research study on educators' perspectives on GenAI in T&L. #Edtech26
Thought provoking opening keynote from @abeba.blacksky.app #edtech26 packed with evidence-led research and work from @aial.ie. This research paper in particular caught my eye zenodo.org/records/1934...
When Responsibility Enables Ethics Washing: Responsible Realism as a Critical Lens for Probing Institutional Recommendations for the Use of AI in Higher Education
This work introduces the notion of Responsible Realism, a theoretical resource we propose to characterize the stance in which Higher Education institutions acknowledge the harms and ethical problems o...
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You know you're off to a good start when Freire's quoted in the opening keynote, to reflect on what we can do to resist the corrosive extractionist hegemony of Big Tech. #Edtech26
“Education is for the student to come to feel like the master of her own thinking” Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire, 1978 A timely reminder from @abeba.blacksky.app at #edtech26
Lovely start to #edtech26 chaired with real warmth and panache by @kate-molloy.net and Rob Lowney - big kudos to the whole @iltasky.bsky.social team
Prof Dáire Keogh welcomes us and reminds us at #edtech26 that teacher education began here at @dcuioe.bsky.social over 150 years ago, reflecting on the professionalisation and early beginnings of the scholarship of teaching and learning in Ireland.
The buzz is palpable this morning at DCU for #EdTech26! Welcome all! Looking forward to this mornings sessions!
Good morning from ATU's UDL conference! Lisa Padden's keynote, paraphrasing: if your institution is not actively practicing anti-racism, it's practicing racism.
Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓 Most Changed Since Freshman Year: BackRub → Google From a dorm room experiment to organizing the world’s information. Some people really did peak after high school. More Class of ’96 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/c...
At yesterday's #DigitalEd26 conference, Louise Drumm introduced us to the Scottish Tertiary Ed statement of principles on the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in learning and teaching: sites.google.com/view/scaiten...
SCAITEN - ScAITEN statement of principles
Scottish Tertiary Education statement of principles on the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in learning and teaching From 2023 to 2026, SCAITEN developed a high-level statement on use...
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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/...
Earlier this week, I was introduced to the Erasmus+ INFINITE project's AI Literacy Toolkit. A lot of good case studies in here. (But would prefer a downloadable version!) infiniteaihub.eu/interactive-...
Interactive Toolkit
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✨Transnational Report, AI Literacy Toolkit, and Digital Hub✨ Learn more about the INFINITE project and how they reimagine and support #AI usage in #HigherEducation. Read the article by Katsiaryna Palishchuk, All Digital, Belgium. 📑
INFINITE: Reimagining Higher Education with AI
by Katsiaryna Palishchuk, ALL DIGITAL, Belgium. We are pleased to announce the release of three key resources developed by the INFINITE project: Transnational Report, AI Digital Literacy Toolkit…
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The #EdTech26 Conference at @dublincityuni.bsky.social on 3 & 4 June is gonna be the best conference you ever attend! You don’t want to miss out… so register before 15th May to join us for two days of learning, sharing and reflecting on all things digital in education: ilta.ie/edtech-2026/
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Irish Learning Technology Association@iltasky.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe 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/...
Does GenAI spell the death of the essay??? 📝 🤖 I spoke with assessment expert Thomas Corbin about the future of written assignments in the AI age, and why universities should rediscover the original spirit of essays as exploratory engagements with thinking. www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
Does GenAI spell the death of the essay? - Education Technology Society
GenAI is changing the way that schools and universities think about student assessment. We talk to Thomas Corbin (Deakin University) about the future of the written essay in the era of AI, and ho...
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Coming late to the recent CTL discourse, so I'm just bookmarking the recent articles here, starting with Paul Schofield's "Why Pedagogy ‘Experts’ Are Wrong" in the Chronicle, April 22: www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Opinion | Why Pedagogy ‘Experts’ Are Wrong
In offloading pedagogical expertise to nonscholars, colleges degrade the classroom.
chronicle.com
Recommended reading: Climate Justice Universities Union's "Action Guide: Moving Away from Big Tech" climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/action-guide...
Action Guide: Moving Away from Big Tech
Preamble This document aims to serve as a conversation starter for members of the Climate Justice Universities Union to consider a progressive move to more ecologically and ethically conscious digita...
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Ellen Howley (@lnhowley.bsky.social ) from DCU's School of English discussing bringing diverse literary voices into the English curriculum in her talk: "Decolonising Reading Lists: Opportunities and Challenges" as part of DCU's Teaching and Learning Week Staff presentations.
