A5 we timetable a bunch of students in a room and facilitate them talking to each other about something related to one of the intended learning outcomes. The AI might now even be able to suggest some good conversation prompts (questions) #LTHEchat

A4 I started off using genAI to reinforce my own sense of smug primacy in HE chemistry. That doesn't work anymore. genAI has moved on since 2022 and now I have to too. #LTHEchat

#LTHEchat especially @kjhaxton.com

I see what you did there. #LTHEchat

A2 benefit: breadth of "knowledge"; limit: if a student talks to a bot they are missing out on a genuinely social interaction. Bots are for when you'd otherwise be alone. Say, 9pm.

A1 it means facilitating conversations for learning; conversations about how to answer, not THE answer #LTHEchat

Good evening from Norwich! #LTHEchat

I think academics risk getting too distracted (taking solace) in what AI does badly. @kjhaxton.com gave us a spectacular demonstration of what it does pretty well (study design) and the transformative potential for the teaching-focused STEM academic at #ViCEPHEC25

If I were to label myself a grande dame would that be appropriation? And is there an equally connotation-rich gender-neutral equivalent?

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7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

I’ve found the perfect vantage point for #GRCCERP

@mkseery.bsky.social thanks for laying on such an exciting pre-conference dinner for #GRCCERP I feel I can’t use the picture of the fire engine or the fire breathing car, so here is the moon over Portsmouth, NH.

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A6 I’d remove the word research from your question and the implicit and explicit segregation. We are all academics. Some of us are pushing the boundaries of knowledge and some of us are pushing the boundaries of knowledge acquisition. #lthechat #donotBloomme

A5 “you’re a research-led University, describe how your undergraduate teaching environment has been informed by and has contributed to, discipline based education.” #lthechat

A4 the rules for REF 2029 continue to reduce the perverse incentives to creatively exclude (relabel) researchers* essentially because their (sub) discipline has lower impact factor journals. #lthechat *best academic thing that ever happened to me, but that wasn’t the intent when it was done.

A3 the single biggest threat is divisive use of the word “scholarship” - don’t allow yourself to be othered, you’re a discipline based pedagogical researcher. #lthechat #reclaimscholarship

A2 no stakeholder need be disenfranchised by the research culture. They simply need to embrace the impact agenda. #lthechat

A1 research culture is the belief that the lecture theatre is a laboratory where you build on the pedagogical research literature with your own intuition and innovation to generate results, which you publish and profess to aid in further advancing humankind. #lthechat

Why, what’s going to happen to them? Surely we need to worry about the room and its future users?

A4 avoid setting targets that are fanciful and unachievable. Action may be urgent but many parties doing a little is a better starting point than one failing to do a lot @lthechat.bsky.social #lthechat

A3 nobody want to miss out on being a signatory to the memorandum lthechat.bsky.social #lthechat

A2 I am anybody’s for carbon credits @lthechat.bsky.social #lthechat

A1 @lthechat.bsky.social I think it helps tremendously to have an acronym that everybody has heard but few people know precisely what it stands for. Is it conference of practice or community of parties. Does it even matter? #lthechat

This is as close as I will get to a vote. #Eurovision

This whiteboard fancies itself as some sort of artist.

A5 Failing that, Prof Sally Brown is available for consultancy work. #LTHEchat

A5 Every University needs a fairy godmother. #LTHEchat

A4 less acne and more piercings #LTHEchat

Colour and competitiveness #LTHEchat

A2 Boldness, Realism, Ownership, Well-being and Novelty #LTHEchat

With the benefit of hindsight, I have always been fascinated by the concept of an (admittedly distorted) octahedral hole. #chemsky

Join us Wednesday 30th April at 8pm BST for #LTHEchat 327 Quo vadis teaching, learning and assessment in Higher Education? Led by Emeriti Professor Sally Brown @profsallybrown.bsky.social and Emeritus Professor Phil Race @philrace.bsky.social

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#LTHEchat A5 As with #Jen, Appreciative Inquiry is foundational - professional conversations - active listening - reflecting back - image mediated dialogue - collaborative writing - starting dialogue with rich picture drawing/found word poetry/collage work ...

A5 Appreciative Inquiry where you focus on the strengths and successes of the present and use them to imagine and create the future. #LTHEchat

Yes! What Amanda says. #LTHEchat

#LTHEchat A3 Our students have exp'd educational rebuff tend not to have learned how to learn: unaware of the academic labour they have to put in - when they work hard and still don't succeed it is very disheartening - also expg failure in trad assignmnts rather than success in s'thing > creative

Hidden my elbow! You just made that one up! #LTHEchat

Almost an Ed Balls moment that one Amanda. #LTHEchat

A1 imagine running into a plate glass window that you didn't see. Impact, but not in a good way. #LTHEchat

This week’s #LTHEchat will be starting in 10 minutes. We will be discussing coaching as an educational practice with @kayguccione.bsky.social. Still time to read through the blogpost: lthechat.com/2025/04/07/c...

Now with added “Molecular Animations” in 3D

The paperback and the enhanced ebook version of Inorganic Chemistry 8e have both been published. What a privilege to work with these extraordinary coauthors, the awesome editors and graphic geniuses (who enabled our dynamic diagrams)! #chemsky eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

This is high art

A4 Block learning is perfectly implementable. It can be done. The question is whether it should be done. #lthechat #strawman

Let’s pretend follow Friday is a thing on here. #FF

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