Tim Fawns

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An old book, for PDSE standards (published in 2021!) yet so timely and relevant today :) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

To me, all of this points to the need for educators to be trying to figure out this evolving educational context with students. Supportive, careful exploration and critique. I don't think extremes of resistance or adoption will help students where they are at. But that's up for debate!

We also have focus group papers in the pipeline, looking at how students are thinking about GenAI, their questions and positions. Complex, diverse, entangled in rich conditions, contexts and beliefs, is what we're seeing. A lot of them are using GenAI even as they are worried about using it.

...Students were concerned about GenAI feedback reliability + contextual / disciplinary expertise and valued relational aspect of teacher feedback.

GenAI / teacher feedback serve different functions. It's not either/or.

Comparing Generative AI and teacher feedback: student perceptions of usefulness and trustworthiness The rapid integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into educational contexts has presented both opportunities and challenges for students seeking and using feedback. While AI-gener...

New open access paper from AIinHE project, led by Michael Henderson www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Survey of 7k students from 4 Aus unis. Students valued GenAI feedback ease of access, timeliness, volume, understandability + felt less risky than seeking teacher feedback. But...

Photography, Digital Media, and Technology: Moving from Effects on Memory to Entanglements in Remembering Activity AbstractBroad claims about the relationship between memory and photography, media, and the Internet are often based on thin evidence, derived mainly from a

New chapter in "The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media", edited by Qi Wang and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social.

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It critiques simplistic claims about effects of technology on memory. DM if you can't access it.

2024 was a busy year, I'm pretty sure I've forgotten a bunch of things I did.

It's a good paper, you should be proud.

D'oh, wrong James Lamb! Sorry to both Jameses.

Choreography and improvisation in hybrid teaching Ideas of space within higher education are changing, influenced by pedagogical innovation, emerging technologies, and the experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is most obvious in the expansion...

New open access paper on the complexities of hybrid teaching, learning spaces, materiality, choreography and improvisation, all that good stuff! Led by @jameslamb.bsky.social with @jenrossity.bsky.social and @joenote.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So far, I have thought about the following:
- apprenticeship
- lab work
- collaborative projects where educator is part of the group
- supervised practice
- co-authoring with students
- peer-led teaching sessions
- coaching (where coach has to collaborate with student, as in tennis)

Hi all. I'm thinking about assessments where the assessor/educator works alongside students and gets a sense of their learning from collaborative involvement.

Do you have examples (real or hypothetical) that you can offer for discussion?

In terms of declarations made in advance of an outcome, the best we can say is that something is "a likely solution", taking into account the people, context and the conditions we believe to be in play.

It might not always solve all related problems. Which means it is only a solution to the problems it has already solved (rather than future, related problems) and it is probably a contingent solution, reliant on other factors.

If it has solved a problem, it's probably in combination with other forces and influencing factors, in conditions conducive to the outcome that happened.

And it's not inherently authentic, either.

I want to argue that a thing is not a solution until it has actually solved a problem. Up until then, it is just a way of trying to achieve something.

Thank you for highlighting this podcast. I didn't know about it but I have no doubt it will be wonderful.

Youngest person ever to learn the word "ochlotecture".

@jondron.bsky.social

Good! Can't just leave it at the "hey everyone, this is a thing" stage 😁

Thanks @dreddpitt.bsky.social and Kathleen! I've been waiting about 10 years for someone to write this paper.

Evaluative feedback isn’t enough: harnessing the power of consequential feedback in higher education Most research on feedback in higher education focuses on evaluative feedback and its recipience, uptake, and enactment. Evaluative feedback information includes judgments, critiques and suggestions...

No, that's a different definitional debate!

@timbocop.bsky.social, seen this paper by Kathleen & Edd yet? Just another facet to feedback. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Careful. You'll get us embroiled in the feedback wars.

Coupled with attending a session on deepfakes and yesterday's pretending to be Danny and collecting his team's award, I am beginning to feel like I'm in an academic Black Mirror episode. All good fun, though!

The last question was whether Danny and I could clone ourselves (a lovely compliment) and, indeed, it was my video clone that responded (Danny and I had pre-recorded our conversation).

At ASCILITE, we spoke about tensions from focus group data with students around AI. At ASCEPT/APSA/APFP, Danny and I discussed thorny AI issues in response to some very tricky questions asked by Betty and Nel.

Tim Fawns against Italian-looking Zoom background, projected on a conference wall.

Danny Liu against blurred Zoom background, projected on a conference wall.

Michael Henderson presenting below a photo of an old-style TV with the text "Tension 4: deepened engagement and reduced quality". Margaret Bearman and Tim Fawns are standing to the right. Some members of the crowd are visible.

Tim Fawns presenting below a photo of an old-style Kodak camera with the text "What: survey and focus groups". Margaret Bearman is crouched behind a computer screen and Michael Henderson is standing to the right. A crowd in tiered seating is visible.

...presenting with Danny Liu across the Yarra River at ASCEPT/APSA/APFP as part of Betty Exintaris and Nilushi (Nel) Karunaratne's pharmacy education symposium.

It was bound to happen at some point. Today, I gave two presentations at the same time.

I presented a pecha kucha with Margaret Bearman and Michael Henderson about our aiinhe.org Student Perspectives on AI in Higher Education study at #ASCILITE2024 at the Uni of Melbourne, while simultaneously...

Good luck / enjoy!

Online Postgraduate Education in a Postdigital World This series is a new, international book series dedicated to postdigital science and education. It brings together a rapidly growing community

Online Postgraduate Education in a Postdigital World is apparently very popular because it's helpful for thinking through the complexity of online learning.

This is what I call success. Congrats to co-editors Gill Aitken & Derek Jones and our great authors.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#ASCILITE2024 was fun. Kudos for mostly very mindful Zoom hosting too and the asynchronous element of the SlowPosium (@gamerlearner.bsky.social @wentale.bsky.social) Nice to see moves towards more inclusive educational spaces. Lovely chatting with those I chatted with.