Talks
Three years. A consistent message to European educators: stop flinching.
Every talk Niall has given on AI in education since 2023, indexed and queryable. Ask the archive a question and the answer comes back in his voice, cited to the talk it came from.
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The archive
- AAIE Annual Conference, San Francisco
Teaching With, Not Against
Audience: Heads of school, deputy heads, classroom teachers
Most AI-in-education conversations frame the teacher as a gatekeeper — what to allow, what to forbid, where the line is. The talk argues that this framing produces brittle policy and bad teaching, and walks through what assessment, differentiation, and feedback look like when teachers stop policing AI and start practising alongside it.
- #pedagogy
- #assessment-redesign
- #differentiation
- NESA Fall Leadership Conference, Athens
Policy After Practice
Audience: Heads of school, board members, curriculum coordinators
A policy written before your faculty has used AI is a policy your faculty will ignore. The talk makes the case for inverting the usual sequence — practice first, language second, policy last — and walks through three concrete examples from international schools that are doing exactly that.
- #policy
- #leadership
- #assessment-integrity
- ECIS Leadership Conference, Barcelona
The Fluency Imperative
Audience: Heads of school, deputy heads, curriculum directors
Most international schools spent 2023 deciding whether to allow AI. The schools that will lead the next decade are the ones that spent 2024 deciding how to embed AI fluency across their faculty. The talk argues for fluency over policy, names the specific behaviours that distinguish a fluent classroom, and offers a six-month program structure leaders can take home.
- #leadership
- #professional-development
- #policy
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