The Spring NEARIMeet is just around the corner!

Theme: 'Educational Action Research in Schools'

March 20th at 18:30 online
Book a place tinyurl.com/yef9bc6k or email info@eari.ie. Everyone welcome!
@esai-irl.bsky.social @aimiebrennan.bsky.social @marygtroche.bsky.social @marymcateer.bsky.social

An early morning on #InternationalWomensDay, and we are preparing for an exciting day 🎉
Bringing @codeplusirl.bsky.social students to Google’s Dublin headquarters! @uniofgalway.bsky.social

Anois teacht an Earraigh le Misneach

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

When This Professor Got Cancer, He Didn’t Quit. He Taught a Class About It. (Gift Article) Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

🎉 @uniofgalway.bsky.social is delighted to host the 2025 ISDDE Conference, 19th - 22nd May. This year's conference theme is 'Expansive Design Across Boarders, Cultivating Joy in Learning'.

🏉 AI tackles rugby!

A Lero-funded project with IRFU is using AI to analyse tackles, improving player safety, performance & game dynamics.

🔗 Read more: lero.ie/news-and-eve...

#AI #Rugby #IRFU #SportsTech #Innovation #PlayerWelfare

The 2025 International Society for Design and Development in Education (ISDDE) Conference will be held at the @uniofgalway.bsky.social in May! Conference website: sites.google.com/view/isdde20... and early registration until March 1st universityofgalwayisdde.clr.events/event/137161...

Instagram post from St Joseph’s Castlebar

Girls at computer

Microbits and electronics

Delighted to facilitate a workshop at St Joseph’s #Castlebar #Mayo with Group 1 TY girls. Amidst the storm of storms we managed to get everything done👏🏻Thanks for your support for our programme! @universityofgalway.bsky.social @learnenggroup.bsky.social @microbit.org @fordofthekings.bsky.social

AI Guidance for EERA Blog Contributors Advice from our team on the appropriate use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in academic writing and AI guidelines for EERA Blog contributors.

Our AI Guidelines for EERA Contributors lay out how we work with our contributors to produce excellent, authoritative, and original blog posts, how generative AI fits into this process, and what we find acceptable use blog.eera-ecer.de/ai... #EERABlog #EduSci

Well done to the 16 TY girls from Coláiste Einde #Galway who made it to our workshop despite the snow & ice 🌨️❄️ We covered Scratch, #MachineLearning, #STEAM @microbit.org & #Robotics #BirdBrainTech @universityofgalway.bsky.social #Lero #UL #TCD #Google #FidelityInvestments @learnenggroup.bsky.social

Well done to the TY girls from #PortumnaCommunitySchool who participated in our workshop covering #scratch #MachineLearning #STEAM @microbit.org & #Robotics #birdbraintech #Fidelity @universityofgalway.bsky.social #LeroCentre #Google @learnenggroup.bsky.social #edtechne

Leaving Cert Hackaton January 18th, check the link for further info! Please RT
portershed.clr.events/event/137497...

Thanks for setting this up - you can add us also please! Cornelia

Cisco launches 'virtual hospital' in Galway Tech giant Cisco has announced a joint venture to create a research framework for the world’s first ever ‘virtual hospital’.

Delighted to see our work featured in @siliconrepublic.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/w...

EERA Summer School for doctoral students. #EERSS2025 Chemnitz "Cultures in education, cultures in research – education and research in cultures". 2 - 6 June 2025. Lectures, workshops, peer group discussions and more: Application deadline 15 Jan 2025. https://buff.ly/3CT7H79 #Edu-Sci Info:

Call for Proposals to #ECER2025 Belgrade "Charting the Way Forward: Education, Research, Potentials and Perspectives". 8 - 12 September 2025. #EdResearch #EduSci #EmergingResearchers Submission deadline: 31 Jan 2025 The Call: https://buff.ly/3B9pCpO

Maybe your day will start better with this pup

#AI - #MachineLearning is great but...Day 3 of 4 during #CSWEEK @Oide_CompSci The TYs @scoilmhuirecos had a interesting look @ #AI which is #code created by people who have have bias We need to ensure that we don't bring that with us Be responsible when designing software systems @LeroCentre

It's computer science week @Oide_CompSci Looking forward to a week of #CS activities with @scoilmhuirecos It will be a jam packed week of web design computational thinking AI and responsible software engineering embedded systems robotics and lots more #Lero #womeninstem