Anseo.net #28 Newsletter 📌AI Ideas for your School

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Hi, {{ contact.FIRSTNAME }} 👋🏾

It’s been lovely hearing your feedback about my Code Without Coding course. One teacher got in touch to say he’d starting developing an app which logs when students leave the classroom and all teachers in the school can see the same. I’d love to hear of any of your app ideas.

I’m working on a new app which should be available in the coming months. It is aimed at school leaders and Boards of Managements and I’ll be letting you know more about it as I make progress.

I send a newsletter every two weeks, and I know you won’t agree with everything I write, but I hope you’ll agree there’s something for you each fortnight.

In this newsletter:

🎙 Interview with Rob Barnett

💭 Education Stories over the last few weeks

🧵 Some threads 

🤖 My First Free Course

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If you were the Minister for Education…

Latest Podcast Episode

I interview, Rob Barnett, the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Modern Classrooms Project, a really interesting project which, at its core, tries to use technology for better human interaction and relationships in the classroom.

With the dust settling on the annual cluster-bomb that is SET Allocations, the stakeholders were predictably silent on the ridiculous toll it takes on school leaders. I am not a representative of anyone and I received three phone calls from principals a few days after the allocations were announced with one of them crying over the stress of them. The only group to do or say anything were, also predictably, The National Principals’ Forum.

Alan O’Ceallaigh spoke on The Tonight Show about the crisis in Special Education, as a group of parents planned to have a sleep out protest outside the Department of Education. Ironically the sleep out will take place close enough to where the current Minister for Education, Helen McEntee did her famous walkabout claiming the streets of Dublin were safe.

Two articles were published about violence in classrooms, one from a Northern Irish perspective and the other from a Republic of Ireland perspective. Interesting to see the angles from our different media.

Finally, I was interested in how teachers in Cork are outraged about being asked to attend Communion services on a weekend but not being outraged that they are being forced to prepare the children for the Communion. 

Given how “threadful” X has become, I’ve decided to focus on anything I can find on social media that might be of interest. Some of them I’ve found and some of them I’ve made. Let me know what you think.

• Who owns the solar panels once they’re installed in schools? (Medium)
• At least it’s not only primary schools with a complete disregard for minorities (X)
• If 100 people represented the world (Instagram)
• Irish teacher explains why he moved to Dubai (Instagram)

I’d like to think that courses don’t only provide the participants some new knowledge, they also provide new knowledge for the person giving the course. This is what I always loved when I was giving courses regularly. While I still believe we get much more from having face-to-face interactions because that’s where knowledge is best shared, online courses also have their place, and it doesn’t stop ideas flowing two ways.

This is why I love getting feedback from anything I present. Code Without Coding will hopefully inspire you to try out some different projects but it has already inspired me to write some more courses. While I mentioned the participant who has gone off to complete a rota app for students leaving the classroom, I got other feedback, which, to put it bluntly, told me to SLOW DOWN!

Writing a course takes a lot of time but I’m hoping to release a more simple course using AI as an assistant using familiar tools like ChatGPT and Canva. If you have any other suggestions for things you’d like for me to create, I’d be delighted to hear from you. In the meantime, here is my first course, if you haven’t seen it already.

To access the course, all you need to do is click the button below. There’s no sign in, passwords or anything like that. It’s all yours to share with whoever you like. Now, wasn’t it worth sifting through my mad thoughts on the education system?

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