A6 For institutions: Avoid knee-jerk policy making. Ignore the moral panic. Think carefully and exploit ( in a good way) some of the excellent, research-focused, evidence-based research that is going on. #lthechat

A5 Design and implement projects that require the use and application of various GenAI tools BUT the key is to review the project focussing on the learning and if you’re going to assess it focus on process not product. #lthechat

First clear night sky after what seems like weeks of clouds and rain…and it was a full moon.

A6 1. Understanding the difference between empathy and sympathy. 2. Retaining a sense of humour and highly developed sense of the absurd. 3. Never underestimate the power of small acts of kindness. #lthechat

A5 Understanding that identity – professional or otherwise - is not immutable or linear. Maybe for some it is but for me it’s been a career of multiple, non-linear shifts and changes. The only constant, I suppose, is a quest for creativity and a sense of achievement. #lthechat

@it-se.bsky.social @hbsj.bsky.social @paulineridley.bsky.social @jacpow.bsky.social @ruraldad.bsky.social Thank you, Shell!

A Story of Christmas Eve. stumblingwithconfidence.com/2025/12/23/g... #christmas

@profsallybrown.bsky.social Wishing you and Phil all the very best for 2026. with warm regards Paul x

We have a resident robin in our garden. It is here every day and follows me around when I’m in the garden and allows me to get very close. #birds #garden

Girl on woodland path Earphones in. Oblivious To the robin’s song.

Still chasing Saturn.

Saturn was at its brightest and nearest last night.

No chance of a blood moon yesterday evening Cornwall - too light, too cloudy, too low - but compensated by a spectacular sunset.

Years ago, I was footling around on the piano after a conference dinner when someone asked if I could play her favourite tune Autumn Leaves. I couldn't but went home & learnt it. Now, every year, I record it and send it to her. So, @profsallybrown.bsky.social this is for you x youtu.be/twyxtkh6uAQ

80 years ago today, my mum - then 19 years old - typed this in her journal. #history #onthisday #familyhistory

Pieces: some recent and some not so recent posts mainly about education, creativity and assessment, with a few more personal pieces thrown in for good measure. #highereducation #Academicsky #Edusky stumblingwithconfidence.com/pieces/

That went well! From AHE to A&E. From the wonderful AHE conference in Manchester to A&E in Truro. (Don’t ask…..well, if you insist, three cracked ribs from a bad fall). Heigh ho.

More examples of ‘Drawing from Experience’ using visualisation to reveal the emotional impact of assessment on academics. #AHEconf2025 stumblingwithconfidence.com/2022/06/23/r...

More examples of ‘Drawing from Experience’ using visualisation to reveal the emotional impact of assessment on academics. #ahe2025 stumblingwithconfidence.com/2022/06/23/r...

A couple of drawings from my ‘Drawing from Experience’ session on the emotional impact of assessment at the #ahe2025 conference. We don’t talk enough about this! #Edusky #Academicsky

A1 A passionate openness to share and learn #lthechat

A brush, with solitude and silence. stumblingwithconfidence.com/2025/05/18/a...

Cornflowers are just stunningly beautiful.

Exactly 80 years ago today my mother typed this in her journal. She was 19 years old. #history

Sorry to have missed tonight’s #LTHEchat with Sally & Phil. But there were compensations.

Evenin’ all.

The whisky is finished. Night all and thanks #lthechat

A6 From a teaching perspective, what is there not to like about block learning? #lthechat

A5 Good design and taking a holistic approach to the whole programme design is absolutely key. So much in HE doesn’t work well (or not at all) due to poor design. #lthechat

A4 Block learning actually mirrors what happens out there in the ‘real world’. Many jobs involve block projects. #lthechat

A4 Hmmmm….. You need… Flexible mind-sets (people) Adaptable teaching spaces (environment) Efficient/effective systems Need to address all three together. #lthechat

A3 That still has the problem of assessment perceived (and practised) as a ‘bolt-on’ at the end of the block. Block teaching is a good candidate for assessment as an ongoing, dialogic process so, by the end, the students actually know how they’ve done. #Lthechat

A2 You need a decent ‘deschooling’ period not only to explain how the block system works but for students to experience it, with a very light-touch approach to assessment. #Lthechat

A1 I’d have thought a more pertinent question is who might block teaching exclude? #Lthechat

Evenin’ all from Truro. #LTHEchat

F-AI-L: forget about assessment? "Assessment is seriously and fundamentally damaged and no amount of major or minor engineering is going to fix it.....There is a growing recognition that #highereducation requires a paradigm shift....." stumblingwithconfidence.com/2025/04/02/f...

A question for the higher education hive mind…. In your HE system, what percentage of graduates end up working in a field NOT related to their discipline? In the UK the old figure I have c.1998 was 48%. I suspect it hasn’t changed much. #highereducation.

Sorry, on the road so can’t join you tonight. Have a good #LTHEchat

‘Beyond horizon, tale is told, Believed as true by some, That silver sea turns into gold And hope does truth become.’ Dennis Lange

Lovely walk yesterday from St. Agnes’ Head to Wheal Coates along a section of the South West Coastal path in Cornwall.

Evening all.

Telling Tales and the power of stories in education. ".....We live, communicate, interact through stories. We experience the world through stories. We are storytelling organisms who lead storied lives." #education #highereducation #storytelling stumblingwithconfidence.com/2014/03/29/t...

A blog piece about plagiarism and the ‘grey zone’ around it. #highereducation #art #music #education stumblingwithconfidence.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/i...

‘Taking a Line for a Walk’ Latest from Stumbling with Confidence. “You just get this one idea, which might, at first, seem a bit daft. But something just holds you back from thinking it is completely daft……..” stumblingwithconfidence.wordpress.com/2025/03/09/t... #education #creativity

This brilliant and important paper by Cath Ellis and Kane Murdoch is a ’must read’ for anyone in #highereducation involved in/concerned about academic integrity and assessment security. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Evening all.

Should we ban or should we celebrate books such as ‘Of Mice and Men’, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Lord of the Flies’? | Steve Marshall @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk

Spectacular skies over Devon and Cornwall yesterday as we drove back home from the north. Even managed to catch Mercury, below the moon 3rd photo, though we didn’t know it.