Peter Hartley

Not to worry. OpenAI will be bringing us ‘agents’ (they have just swallowed OpenClaw) which will do all this annoying admin and more!

#LTHEchat A3 Anonymous marking has always been a problem for me - how can you give the best personalised feedback if you do not know who you are talking to?

I’ve seen attempts to foster ‘belonging’ which were seen by students as over-intrusive. For me, mattering is all the signals you can use to show students that they do actually matter, that they are more than their ID number, which starts with being open to communication and acknowledging them

isn’t it a bit of both?

i remember some students who did not really want to ‘belong’ in the typical sense but they all wanted to feel that they ‘mattered’.

Have seen 1 response from a course in the last few days which could have interesting consequences - students MUST use GenAI and log it in the assignment they submit

A4 #LTHEchat Think that choice is fundamental to an effective engagement. And that needs some preparation and build-up.

and it worked in that way for many students. Some turned it into their future careers.

A1 #LTHEchat Some years ago I was responsible for an independent studies scheme where students had to write their own module, complete
with assessment details and criteria. It was an optional module at Levels 2 and 3. It worked very well from both staff and student perspectives

#LTHEchat A6 One thing to change? How about reviewing and enhancing the role and status of technical staff supporting the computing infrastructure. I've been fortunate to work with excellent staff over the years but often felt that their expertise and initiative was under-valued.

Last line should be 'wouldn't that be ....

#LTHEchat A5 If the digital leaders were all themselves digitally fluent and simultaneously committed to introducing new tech which genuinely made life better for staff - wouldn't that the culture change we need?

And are we about to experience some imminent waves of change which definitely do not fit in the typical university planning cycle? (thinking of the new OpenAI 'platform', AI-enabled browsers, agents etc)

And can we add a significant slice of team-teaching (where some of my best learning occurred)

No buzz words or acronyms - is such speech possible?

And Agents are springing up everywhere!

the new network on this should help - now doing a lit review which will also provide support

#LTHEchat A4 Now that we have a free browser with ChatGPT built-in and some Lerge Language Models openly advertising their virtues as expert plagiarists, what could possibly be the problem?

#LTHEchat A4 Are we asking students what they think these literacies involve? And what they expect to see In their future worklife?

Some issues have a very very long history!

Tuckman may not be the best choice. Try punctuated equilibrium!

But what if Tuckman was wrong? I had more success with 'punctuated equilibrium' theory.

#LTHEchat A1 Doesn't the 'rise' of GenAI give LD and LDers a unique opportunity to 'rebadge' academic literacy and become the main focus for helping students and staff to develop critical AI literacy? Who else is going to do it?

left-handed fountain pens work for me!

Anyone using Google's NotebookLM to save your notes and then discuss them with the AI podcasters?

Rocketbooks are still around but I suspect their days are numbered

@lthechat.bsky.social A1 My go-to solution has to be a concept map - use Cmap freeware. It changed my life!

#LTHEchat The nights are drawing in .... what better place to be!

But Google is now stuffing all its products with AI! Are we fighting a losing battle on this?

Thanks for the mention, Louise. We are picking up a growing number of critical analyses of GenAI such as Karen Hao 'Empire of AI' and there have only been 3 programmes today about GenAI on Radio 4