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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if certain employment can be considered as service for incremental credit in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30589/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Strategies (10 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of the national disability and inclusion strategy, the work being done to make changes to the disabled drivers and passengers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30068/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Apologies have been received from Deputy Sorca Clare and Senators Aisling Dolan and Fiona O'Loughlin. Senator Malcolm Byrne is substituting for Senator O'Loughlin. I remind members to please ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment of the Houses, even if they are on silent mode. Are the minutes of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I first call Deputy Mairéad Farrell who will be followed by Deputy Jim O'Callaghan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Ms White is talking about the junior and leaving certificates and suggests that they need real reform?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Does anybody else want to add to that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: If you take a teacher in any secondary school, who could have 35 years of teaching experience, I presume he or she would have huge challenges in grappling with all of this. This is totally new to such teachers. New teachers coming in directly from teacher training are very much up on tech. They have lived and been immersed in the new tech era compared with someone who is 55 or 60 years of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Are there any specific subjects where AI is used more, compared to other subjects?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I thank the Senator. I have a couple of questions. What put the thought of doing this project into the students' heads in the first place? What gave them the idea to do it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: If the witnesses could change the educational system tomorrow morning to tailor it towards AI, what are the two to three changes they would make to post-primary education?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Other images could be used or whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: It could be graphic images or whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: This is totally off the point but, as a matter of interest, what are your own schools' policies on mobile phones? Are you allowed have your phones on you during the day or are they put into a pouch in your locker?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: For specific projects or whatever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: And are they in a pouch?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Can you use them during the day in the corridors and things like that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Proper order. I would agree with that school policy. Are there any other questions for our witnesses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I am disappointed none of them have said they will go into politics.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Primary Education: Discussion (9 Jul 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I agree 100%. It is an issue this committee has discussed over a long time and it keeps coming back to the social media platforms and the bullying that can happen on them. It amazes me that schools do not have a strict policy on the use of mobile phones in their own premises. If I had my way, no student would have a phone in school. Every school principal talks about the great policy they...