A4: Really demoralised staff, struggling to work with inadequate equipment in inappropriate spaces defined by 'job family' rather than job, who're being line managed by people who don't understand their jobs, and got the management position through over-confidence rather than ability. #LTHEchat
A2: Yes! If the staff and students aren't flourishing, the University is not flourishing. #LTHEchat
A1: People, including academics, flourish in a situation where they can just get on with their jobs, without constantly struggling to get the right facilities. #LTHEchat
A3: I've done a couple of experiments where I asked AI about recent developments. Basically it just gave me rubbish, refusing to actually write about what I asked. Not an approach that can always be used however. I think the real answer is to loose the addiction to essays,. #LTHEchat
A1: It means I'm having to add extra evaluations to my PhD, that will take a few weeks to do properly, basically to prove that my project is still valid in an age of AI. #LTHEchat
Almost everyone's Trump handling tactic is public flattery and private delay / obfuscation. Why? Because it works better than any alternative that has been tried.
There is though a big weakness which is that this strategy can't actually be publicly communicated.
A2: Knowing I'd never have to sit through another presentation about how insignificant changes in responses from tiny self-selected samples showed how well/badly the team were doing. #LTHEchat
A1: Made redundant a year ago, first time it was 'real', rather than just the Uni being nice at the end of a fixed term contract. Decided to treat it as early retirement. #LTHEchat.
A3: Being made redundant :-) #LTHEchat
A2: The last four years or so, when I'd been put in a office full of administrators with no interest in education, and with a line-manager who had no real understanding of my role. #LTHEchat
A1 - An absence of people you can talk to about the things that matter to you and your role. #LTHERchat
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
A3 pt 2, and also influence, e.g why are we told to worry about AI, but not the much less useful cryptocurrency? #LTHEchat
A3: Real impacts and benefits, e.g. travel vs video conferencing using a large data centre. #LTHEchat
A1: An ability to identify misdirection, and misinformation. #LTHEchat
A6: Recognise that expertise is needed as well as enthusiasm, treat appointments to these roles at least as seriously as a senior lecturer post, and eliminate any hint of cronyism. Look for people who challenge the status-quo rather than maintaining obsolescence. #LTHEchat
A5: A culture of investigation and experimentation is important, but it is also important to keep security and sustainability in mind when doing that. The balance between these often goes wrong. Also, beware of people who never challenge leaders, otherwise they end up surrounded by yesmen #LTHEchat
Q4: Connections with many people I met through 1EdTech/IMSGlobal and JISC CETIS mainly. Also being really interested in the technology - having work as a hobby is a great help in the digital world. #LTHEchat
A3: Digital accessibility is a key part of it - the leaders need to promote it, and ensure the accessibility champions have the influence, power and tools to ensure best practices are followed. #LTHEchat
A2: I think I annoyed too many people by being the person who had the expertise they really needed.... I was only ever a leader in national and international contexts, never locally. #LTHEchat
A1: Digital leadership needs to connect many strands - they need to manage and negotiate the differing requirements of teachers, students, server and security teams. The also need to have the specialist expertise in educational software and standards that is lacking is these other teams. #LTHEchat
This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.
A1: I'd really not like to do that - I always treated (and considered) my masters students members of the team, and that seemed to work well. #LTHEchat
A6: Sometimes a framework can help originality - e.g. the game frameworks mentioned in the blog, without something like Unreal, Unity, PlayCanvas, or even MonoGame, the user would be bogged down in basics, and have no chance of doing something great on their own. #LTHEchat
A3: In a way my PhD is a framework for writing parsers - I'm working on generative programming, and one of the challenges is to make the creation of parsers easier for non-specialists. #LTHEchat
That course was part of the BTechEd, so the students had very varied backgrounds, some straight from school, with good highers in maths, and others looking for a second career, with a distant memory of an O grade maths.
A2: Teaching programming I tried to make activities that the more capable students could add extras to. The best mixed ability technique I've seen hough was when I covered for a L1 maths class, with very varied levels, where the better students basically became tutors. #LTHEchat
A1: In the distant past I used Authorware - a sort framework for e-learning content, and more recently I've encouraged teachers to use H5P, which is similar in concept, but much better, and easier for teachers. I've not come across anything similar for students though #LTHEchat
It makes many of the benefits of a personal tutor available to people who would not otherwise be able to afford it. I think in the long run this is going to be one of the most positive uses of AI. #LTHEchat
A rather amateur looking video in the unboxing genre - "Unboxing the Behringer PRO VS MINI and the Behringer JT-4000M MICRO" youtu.be/8yR54ol5kJs?... via @YouTube - hopefully I'll get round to making another video with nice sound from these soon!
