A scaffolded peer review process should teach students how to give feedback, help them understand what quality work looks like, provide criteria for feedback, and offer multiple opportunities to practice giving feedback. #EduSky #AcademicSky
What a terrible age to exist in. It blows my mind the number of people that get their news from social media rather than a news outlet. Even with media as biased as it can be, at least there are some standards that are vaguely adhered to.
I would pay good money to see a panel of academics analyse the behaviour on MAFS and its impact on society.
AI directs us to emulate what already exists. Unless you prompt for feedback that guides your writing in a unique, innovative and nuanced way, the feedback will often direct you to use the same tepid language that AI uses and the same bog-standard structure. #AIinEDI #EdTech #EduSky
Using AI to create a rubric (as a basic rubric that is revised/contextualised by educators) is actually better than generic rubrics. At least AI can generate a rubric that is aligned to the task and the outcomes. A generic rubric won't be aligned and will be unfit for purpose. #EduSky #AcademicSky
Academia loves to make things sound complex and intellectual. That's the opposite of what learning outcomes should be. They should be clear, direct and simple, using disciplinary concepts meaningfully. #AcademicSky #InstructionalDesign #EduSky
To push students towards metacognition, we need first to ask them questions that consider the steps that led to the event, the process of the event, and its impact or aftermath.
Something not mentioned in this post is maintaining mental boundaries. Don't let toxic colleagues weigh on your mind when you're not at work. Notice the thought, then choose different ones. Ruminate on their toxic behaviour during work time instead. Get paid for it. #MentalHealth
That’s a good way of framing it, and I can see the confusion. At least everyone has the same grace period. Ours is at the discretion of the educator, which leads to a lack of equity across the disciplines.
Our faculty has moved to this after a decade of ‘you must have x word count’. The absolute relief for educators to move away from over assessment based on word counts was immense.
Yesssss! We’ve moved to a standard ‘all assessments must have a standard submission time of 11:55pm local time’ across the whole institution. 😬😬😬😬 This does not allow for technical support at all.
Our expectations of students may be higher than ourselves: How many educators are frantically trying to finalise course changes just before the LMS site opens to students? If the assessment is due at midnight and they are one hour late, grade with empathy. #AcademicSky #MentalHealth
Embed reflective tasks in the process so that students articulate how they have used AI, how it assisted them and even how it hindered their process. We don't talk enough about how AI can actually be more time-consuming and often disruptive in the writing process. #EduSky #EdTech #AIinEdu
Sharing pronouns, particularly as a cisgender woman, helps to make those around me feel safe. In the same way that seeing a rainbow flag makes me feel safe as a queer woman, seeing pronouns on someone's profile helps people feel safe sharing theirs. #UDL #EduSky #AcademicSky
Branching scenarios make for great assessments: show the implications of the choice, ask questions that allow the student to unpack those implications. Playing with H5P as a way to capture the students' rationale as they progress through the branching scenario. #EduSky #AcademicSky #EdTech
Never be afraid to cut criteria; the quickest way to do so is to ask: Does this align with my learning outcomes? It's amazing how we put in all this effort to create constructively aligned assessments, yet we end up with criteria that are just 'content' and 'analysis'. #EduSky #AcademicSky
You can't solve the scroll of death with accordions: this buries critical information and introduces click fatigue. If there is too much information, design the pages in content-based chunks with plenty of white space and images. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. #elearning
💯 It’s almost like a competition to be the most despicable and hated person. It gets more attention. 😬
It’s like people are doubling down on sucking. Oh, you think you suck? I can beat that.
“We are seeing the rise of an AI Blakface that is utilised with ease thanks to the availability and prevalence of AI. Non-Indigenous people and entities are able to create Indigenous personas through AI, often grounded in stereotypical representations that both amalgamate and appropriate cultures.”
I also keep copies of achievements, recommendations, 'thank you' emails, etc during all my jobs. Once you've left, you can't access the email for the one crowning statement of working with you that you wanted for your CV. #LTHEChat
When you're running on empty, you can't have the same expectations for yourself. Sometimes, self-care can be as simple as putting on a clean shirt. #EduSky #AcademicSky #MentalHealth
I need someone to create an Australian version of this. At least we have retained our EDI policies. I very much appreciate “a vague notion of graduate employability that hasn’t changed since the Cold War.”
When you receive feedback and choose not to enact it, then continue to receive the same feedback time and time again… perhaps reconsider complaining about the people giving the feedback and consider enacting the feedback instead. It’s a systematic pattern that you should probably pay attention to.
The jigsaw activity is one of my favourite educational strategies for getting a quick overview of a complex topic and encouraging less coasting in activities. #EduSky #EdChat
Great advice:
• Do not interrupt them to share your own feelings and experiences
• Do not compare their experience of trauma with anyone else's
• Do not minimise their experience, e.g. "It could have been worse"
• Do not offer religious solace by saying things like "God has reasons"
It’s amazing when something that was the cornerstone of higher education (discussion) is difficult to organise and doesn’t get prioritised. I’d love to return to the days when scholars spent time at University discussing and debating simply because they were passionate.
