LTA Lunch and Learn Series: GenAI in T&L and Assessment Blanchardstown 2026
GenAI is increasingly used to enable learning and teaching across our Faculties and Schools. Sharing practices and reflecting on others’ experiences help academic staff learn collaboratively, build confidence, and critically reflect on their pedagogical use of GenAI.
Lunch and Learn: GenAI in Teaching, Learning and Assessment
The Learning, Teaching and Assessment (LTA) team invites staff across the University to participate in the first Lunch and Learn: GenAI in Teaching, Learning and Assessment that will take place on Thursday 5th November, from 1-2pm in the Room BF 203 in Blanchardstown Campus.
You are asked to bring lunch with you.
Guided by the question, “In what ways can institutional strategies support critical, reflective, and ethical engagement with AI, rather than compliance-driven implementation?” (HEA, 2025), the LTA Team is facilitating this series of in-person events to create space for academic staff to share disciplinary practices, critically reflect on their use of AI tools, and learn collaboratively from one another.
The Lunch and Learn events are designed to provide a welcoming, informal, safe, and inclusive space for sharing and learning from each other's experiences when using GenAI Tools in teaching, learning or assessment.
Events will be hosted through the academic year across different TU Dublin campuses.
Contributors
For the event on 5th November, we are pleased to have contributions from two colleagues on their use of GenAI in Teaching and Learning.
- Niamh O'Hora from the School of Media will share: 'Teaching Critical AI Thinking Through Gameplay'.
- Jenny Thornton from the School of Business will present: ‘Empowering our students to use Gen AI; Making our students employable’.
Join us to learn from our colleagues' practices in a friendly and peer-collaborative space.
Bring your lunch!
Session Outline
In this session, we will explore and share
- The new GenAI in T&L and Assessment website
- How to empower students to use AI level five on the AI assessment scale to create artefacts and then to use their brains to critically assess the work.
- How students test GenAI tools for bias and exclusion, then turn what they discover into games, using gameplay to teach others how AI can exclude and discriminate by repeating bias at scale.
Register to Attend
Register here to attend this in-person event.
You are asked to bring lunch with you. Lunch will not be provided.