#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.

#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?

#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?

#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?

@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!

#LTHEchat A5 How about - go and see if you can find out what it cost to produce that image.

#LTHEchat A4 Couple of suggestions. Ask the AI to produce an image of a specific historical event and then add up the errors. The other obvious one is 'spot the stereotypes'.

#LTHEchat A2 Have you tried images of clock faces without specifying the time? Have you tried an image of a person writing with a fountain pen? Which hand did they use?

A2 #LTHEchat When folk become 'stuck' on a single or limited approach or worldview, then you have to worry if too much ego is attached to that opinion

#LTHEchat A5 Can we equip everyone with Generative-AI-hype-filters?

#LTHEchat A2 Perhaps the biggest gain has been the access to quality resources so that we can concentrate on the dialogue and understanding

#LTHEchat A3 Think that the arrival of Powerpont meant the death of the carefully crafted summary handout - too easy just to make the slides available (and probably overload a fair few students in the process).

#LTHEchat A1 Non-negotiable for me would be the need to ensure that students understand the assessment rationale and how it relates to what we want them to learn

#LTHEchat A5 Suspect that you can only eliminate barriers over time by adopting integrated and inclusive approaches re study skills and demonstrating that they 'work'. And you have to keep doing it.

#LTHEchat A5 Isn't there still a strong 'anti-study-skills' sentiment in some areas which mandates that 'proper teaching' is all about the discipline content?

#LTHEchat A4 Used to introduce several games/exercises to students to encourage collaboration. some now lost in the mists to time - anyone remember the C Wright Mills exercise?

#LTHEchat A2 Educators could offer a simpler assessment scheme in the early stages of the course to give students space to experiment and staff more time to focus on feedback

#LTHEchat A2 For students, I often found it was lack of confidence to try new approaches associated with time pressures that discourage experimentation. And staff/the curriculum/the timetable do not provide the space/time to try things out.

#LTHEchat A! My understand is that they are the sum total of strategies and techniques which enable effective study. But the term 'study skills' has always had a negative connotation of 'deficit'. Can we have a new positive name please?

#LTHEchat A6 We need to equip them with tools and techniques that enable them to make responsible use (not just ethical - which is often defined too narrowly) of GenAI

#LTHEchat A5 Because AI/GenAI is being pushed at us (and all our colleagues and students) so relentlessly then we need to make sure that all our students have a reasonable understanding of what it can and cannot do. And what it is likely to be able to to do next year when the agents come rushing in!

#LTHEchat A2 The idea of 'showing your workings' - how you got to the answer you did - is common in some subject areas. Should we now insist on it for every assignment that incorporates GenAI?

#LTHEchat A1 Cannot every GenAI tool be used for 'good' or 'bad' in terms of learning? We have to find out why and how the students are using them. Suppose we allow every student to use any tool as long as they explained their rationale and evaluated their outcomes. How would that change our debate?

#LTHEchat A3 Rather than confront students with a fixed range of assessment methods, could we encourage them to develop their own personal 'assessment profile' (which would/could included team/group methodologies) and which they couid relate to their post-uni aspirations and ambitions?

#LTHEchat A1 Not used podcast as assessment but experience with old-tech audio and video. One barrier is the assumption that assessment must be a 'one-off' test rather than something which can build over time

A5 #LTHEChat My Genie would also provide positive assistance to everyone unsure about which tools they might need. And would force everyone to use Styles in Microsoft Word (and that means everyone ... and from VC upward)

A5 #LTHEChat My Genie would allow students (and staff) to choose the tools that they want and/or need to use and the institution would accommodate all the different requests with a happy smile!

A1 #LTHEChat Cmap - concept mapper - is probably the only tool I would recommend unreservedly: free, easy to learn, can be shared, and helps learning. What more could we possibly want?

A1 #LTHEChat And the Minidisk made it so easy to edit audio (lapses into silent nostalgic sobbing). And it was nice way back when to have software which did not change the interface every week without warning you

A1 #LTHEChat Wrote a book once in Ventura Publisher - taught me a lot about page layout cos you had to tell it what you wanted.

#LTHEchat A6 In a perfect future world we would no longer need the phrase inclusive learning design because it exists everywhere. Step 1: all senior managers cajoled/instructed/persuaded to do it and then they insist that everything they receive must model it! Now to take the tablets .....

#LTHEchat A2 My eureka moment was discovering styles in Word and other software and realising how such a simple tool made life easier for everyone

#LTHEchat A1 More importsnt then ever because basic principles ar so often ignored. Just been reading a range of wp documents/reports on different topics from different universities across the UK. None of them used styles (not even the one arguing for inclusive behaviour!)

#LTHEchat A2 Anyone ever used the 'visitor from Mars exercise) (other locations can be chosen!) Students have to formulate questions which a visitor might ask to understand the chosen teaching situation/contet. Can generate some very interesting discussion!

@lthechat.bsky.social #LTHEchat A1 Hidden Curriculum has always been there as some students have previous experience which gives them better access to and understanding of the implicit rules of the education game.

A5 #LTHEChat There used to be a lot of games and simulations around (especially in management education) which seem to have 'disappeared' and could easily fit under the 'play' banner. Shark-infested custard, anyone? Anyone?

A4 #LTHEchat You need to get students 'on your side'. Ways that have worked are joining in the activity as much as you can so that students do not feel you are just making them jump through hoops. And regularly pointing out applications/implications for the so-called 'real world'.

#LTHEchat A3 Barriers I have experienced include 'this is enjoyable - this cannot be learning because it is not serious enough' - can come from both staff and students.

A3 #LTHEchat Think we should also be directing students and staff to the critiques of GenAI as it currently exists, e.g. Helen Beetham articles on Substack; books such as 'Taming Silicon Valley' by Gary Marcus, and AI Snake Oil (Narayanan and Kapoor) Gotta longer list if anyone wants it

A1 #LTHEchat (work in progress) With Sam Saunders and Sue Beckingham - looking at the potential applications of NotebookLM which can generate a 2-person podcast from supplied documents (which could be a draft assignment). And you can now join in as a live participant. ,

A1 #LTHEchat using AI-generated images to highlight social stereotypes for discussion. No shortage of material!

#LTHEchat A2 We have to convince students that they can use feedback to their advantage. And we have to do that as soon as they join the course/programme. They may well have learned from their previous education that feedback often 'does not work'.

#LTHEchat A1 Did some work with audio feedback a few years ago. It can work very well. We have the technology but not the systems to make it easy for staff!

@lthechat.bsky.social #LTHEchat A1 There are so many alternatives once you start looking for alternatives. The obvious one is to involve students in dialogue and now we can talk to our assignments or participate in a podcast about them through the Notebook app