@rosepear
Interests: digital pedagogy, technology for learning and teaching, staff development, digital accessibility, AI literacies Learning and Teaching Support Unit (@aah-ltsu.bsky.social), School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent
I'm presenting here with my colleagues about our digital confidence project today - looking forward to hearing what people think about this oft-mentioned, seldom discussed area. #udigcap
Our new blog post (linked below) gives some detail about our contribution to the book Teaching and Learning with Innovative Technologies in Higher Education: Real world case studies (ed. Roushan, Polikinghorne and Patel, 2025) 🎉
I'm looking through the first chapter and really enjoying how clearly and succintly concepts are being explained and the discussion videos for digging into the key points.
I hadn't heard the term "minimal computing" until today but the way it is discussed in the intro to this special issue feels like I've been waiting for it for years now!
An online event series for those working towards an Advance HE fellowship but who aren't in a traditional teaching role: ntuhum-ltsu.com/hea-fellowsh...
Just learned about TKSST, a large curated collection of actually interesting, varied, and kid-friendly (but not kid-focussed) YouTube videos - and I want to watch them all. Going to start with this one: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/a-firef...
A painting of the Colosseum in ruins by Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, ca. 1692-1765).
When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses.
But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.
Hadn't seen that one yet, I'll check it out. Currently experimenting with Newsblur which is a one man and his (cute cute) dog operation and visually is... not the slickest. But I think that's actually a good sign.
My colleagues Beth (@nny.bsky.social) and Emily have put together this post - it's about how we've been trying to accomodate all the different ways our brains work, in part so as to better harness their ⚡power⚡
Sick of moaning about the state of the internet to my friends and loved ones, I'm thinking of finally doing something to improve my enjoyment of it - reengage with an RSS reader. Anyone use these and know a good one?
We read and posted about @emilymbender.bsky.social 's excellent article 'Resisting Dehumanisation in the age of 'AI''. Our reflective takeaways: What might be the unacknowledged ways we contribute to the dehumanising impacts of AI? As part of the 'informed public', how can we be better informed?
Here's a Critical AI starter pack. I didn't see one so I made it! Likely to be missing people so please suggest folks, yourself included! go.bsky.app/UPULf1S
Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Reminder that digital inclusion is not only about enabling students to use technologies it’s about giving them agency to know and decide when NOT to use technologies as well.
Blackboard Ally does something like this, with a very similar icon for each resource, and an overall report ally.ac. I also think it does incite action, but as always with a focus on metrics it's perhaps easy to get abstracted from the actual intent of the tool, trying only to move that dial...
FYI to new users, this is a great feed to follow. It’s just gift links to articles bsky.app/profile/did:...
3/3 This concept has been discussed widely, but I think the way Chiang expresses it has just helped solidify it for me. First Bluesky post and I made it a triple – did I do it right? :/
2/3 If they delegate a lot of those decisions to GenAI, students lose the practice of having to make them, and opportunities for their submissions to better reflect their own specific voice, background and experience (Chiang has something to say about originality too that I think I needed to hear).
Finally read the Ted Chiang article about AI and art that's quoted everywhere (so quotable!). It articulates something key about what art (or creativity) is - decision-making. Lots. And this applies as much to student assessments as it does to novel-writing. 1/3 www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Used to be the cake forks - two sets! - but they’ve become uncursed (exorcised?) once I realised they make serviceable implements for digging out cornichon.
How did Britain vote in 2024 by supermarket, I hear you ask?
In the UK there's approx. 823m unused/broken tech items hiding in “drawers of doom” containing as much as 38.5k tonnes of copper - enough to provide 30% of copper needed for UK’s planned transition to a decarbonised electricity grid by 2030.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...