“I set a number of assignments to my students (at first and second year) in which I challenge students to think outside the box. I actively reward creativity. For example, in my first year course I challenge my students to come up ways of performing various processes on a large scale, for example, extracting sugar from sugar beet …” (more)
[An Irish Blog about Education, 1 May]
“The recent furore over the Google gender memo has all been a bit tedious. It’s boring to say it but nearly everything in life is a mix of nurture and nature and to adopt an ideological stance on what are extremely complex questions is not going to get you anywhere except perhaps into an endless argument on Twitter …” (more)
[educationandstuff, 10 August]
“‘The former objectives of education, which emphasised a knowledge of facts, are no longer as valuable in a society where information is available at your fingertips.’ This was a statement made recently in a column in the Irish Times and it is pretty par for the course. Lots of people have been making this claim for quite a few years now …” (more)
[educationandstuff, 30 January]
“Recently I spotted two students in one of my tutorials using Google Translate to understand better the exercise I had set – I had not seen this done before in my class, though I’m sure it must have happened. When I think about it, it seems so obvious a thing to do for a student for whom English is not their first language …” (more)
[Careful With That Axe, Eugene, 13 October]
“From a news perspective, the recent report by Google researchers that more highly-cited papers are found in non-elite journals is about much more than the distribution of citations …” (more)
[Phil Davis, The Scholarly Kitchen, 20 October]
“Trinity College’s innovative new postgraduate certificate course in 21st Century Teaching and Learning was formally launched at Google’s headquarters in Dublin …” (more)
[Independent, 11 October]
“Google has revealed that The Open University has been ranked as the No 1 European university and No 3 in the world in its worldwide search rankings. The OU was the only university in the top 20 with a base in Ireland. It has 2,500 Irish students currently registered on various courses and qualifications …” (more)
[Karina Corbett, Business and Leadership, 30 September]
“Try as I might, I just can’t seem to let it go. When Laszlo Bock, of Google, tells the columnist Thomas Friedman, of The New York Times, that he would prefer to hire a computer-science student with B grades over an A-plus student who studies English, it doesn’t surprise me. Google is in the business of computing, after all …” (more)
[Guy Raffa, Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 May]
“University College Dublin has saved over €230,000 a year by implementing Google Apps and Search Appliance to improve student and staff access to information. UCD is the largest university and research centre in Ireland, with 6,000 staff and 30,000 students …” (more)
[TechCentral.ie, 25 October]
“Until now, massive open online courses have mostly reinforced existing hierarchies in higher education. MOOC providers have recruited elite institutions and offered them and their professors the opportunity to broadcast their courses to the world …” (more)
[Steve Kolowich, Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 September]
“UCD has completed the transition of UCD staff mail to Google. This involved supporting approximately 6,000 staff through a migration of over 65 million e-mails. This follows the successful migration of the student body’s mail service to Google Apps for Education in 2011 …” (more)
[TechCentral.ie, 1 July]
“Four words that strike terror and despair into the hearts of all academics : ‘oh, I googled it’. In TCD students have access to perhaps the finest research library on the Island …” (more)
[Brian M Lucey, 23 June]
“A partnership between Google and Trinity College Dublin, which will see 1,000 secondary level teachers trained in computer science and more than 1,000 miniature computers provided to schools, has been welcomed by Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn …” (more)
[Pamela Duncan, Irish Times, 1 June]
“Trinity College Dublin today announced a three year partnership with Google to develop a new project aimed at transforming computer science in Irish schools …” (more)
[Trinity College Communications Office, 31 May]
“In November 2011, Eoin McKeogh was falsely branded as a thief on YouTube, Google, Facebook and a number of websites. This was the result of a video and accompanying material which wrongly identified him …” (more)
[Inforrm’s Blog, 19 May]
“A Dublin student wrongly branded a taxi fare dodger in a viral YouTube video has won a major victory in a High Court action against tech giants Facebook and Google …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 16 May]
“A federal court has sided with the Associated Press and the New York Times in a closely-watched case involving a company that scraped news content from the internet without paying for it …” (more)
[Jeff John Roberts, paidContent, 23 March]
“Google announced last night that it will be shutting down its RSS feed, Google Reader, in a couple of months. It was an unpopular decision …” (more)
[Martha Gill, New Statesman, 14 March]
“Multinational companies always like to cite Ireland’s educated workforce as one of the reasons why they set up shop here …” (more)
[John Mulligan, Independent, 9 March]
“It seems that Google just can’t past this whole ‘stop pirating our bylines’ thing these days: the German lower parliament approved a bill requiring Google (and other search engines) to pay a licensing fee for re-publishing bylines of news stories …” (more)
[Liam Boogar, Rude Baguette, 4 March]
