Emma Duke-Williams

Just watching #BBCbreakfast - they’re talking about a new programme to get children singing in school - who else remembers Singing together on the radio?

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have to say, not convinced about the new Apps thing - some programmes (office, I'm looking at you) weren't showing in it (though others that are in the Dock are, so it's not that); nor can I sort by *my* logic. (e.g. "Apple Guff" & Screencasting - two things I used to have, 1 ignored, 1 used!

My work Macbook has decided it needs to update, so, I'll do it on that one & then decide about what I'll do at home :)

4 videos: MacOS 26.0.1 Updated Faster, Better or Worse? MacOS Tahoe: Is it as bad as they say? Don't update to Mac0S Tahoe MacOS Tahoe is AMAZING

My Mac Mini (M4) is keen for me to update to Tahoe:
Google's suggested videos are: Who's done it & which video best fits your experience?

I was there at the start of the summer :) However, recently, just snowed under with work :( And got out of the habit of using this platform.

I've not been here for a while, so have only just seen that the ability to save posts has come. Woohoo :)

A laptop case with the Higher Education Academy Logo on

When conference bags were more than tote bags :)

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I think the environmental issues are useful to discuss, yes training takes a lot, but streaming Netflix etc also does. We need to be mindful of all digital environmental issues. Ethical issues such as copyright, bias etc are more specific in AI context than other scenarios.

That’s what gets Ed & Learning techs a bad rep :(
To me, I’m an Educator first & foremost, technologist 2nd. So, AI, useful to generate *potential* m/c questions to help students untangle a complex paper, or similar for an open question in a discussion board. Not the exam or formal coursework

Thank you! I thought it was under lifestyle. Perhaps I'm muddling Guardian navigation with BBC. (Interestingly, for something under UK, I can see 3 articles, Derbyshire, Hong Kong & Estonia. So, it's actually UK/Global education :)

A list of all the news sections and subsections on the The Guardian News paper. They used to have an Education section (I think it was Family & Education). It's no longer there.

Why has @theguardian.com stopped having a dedicated Education section. One that I'm sure used to have school / University subsections.

3: get back into being a 3 year old and asking “why?” - about even the most mundane of things

I can’t actually remember learning to ride my bike, but it clearly involved bruised knees, scrapes & figuring out what to do to not fall off. I do remember learning to wear a t-shirt (not no top) after falling off into the nettles one very hot day as I was figuring out the balancing stuff!

I also think there are huge diffs between personal reflection (which could even be “ thank goodness I never have to do that again”), reflection with peers, and reflection for assessment which is what many HEIs mean by reflection & many students don’t like

I think some areas just don’t call it “reflection”. For example in software engineering, you’d be asking did it perform as expected? What about edge cases? Could it be done more efficiently? It’s just not called reflection

Agree, can also highlight reflection for self, reflection with trusted peers, reflection for assessment … all start the same, may well emphasise different aspects

I think one of the potential dangers of that is *every* teacher getting students to do that. Doing it at the start to then help students understand the importance of doing it if using AI; maybe some will decide that working with original texts is actually more efficient (for them)

A2 it's hard to recognise your own assumptions and biases. Students might think whatever is written as absolutely true. #LTHEchat

Primary school children are excellent at philosophy as they won't stop asking 'why'? It's a shame that education tries to knock that out of them (and, of course, we know why the state might want to do that). #LTHEChat

#LTHEchat A1 -Pre AI: Ability to evaluate differing views (inc those you may disagree with) take a balanced view; now, add in evaluation of accuracy

It was our first trip, hoping it won’t be the last!

We saw it today! Looks fabulous in situ! Was tempted to buy the Fabuland exclusive set, but I’m a wee bit before that, so got the previous years exclusive, and a duck. Now hoping they’ll fit in the bags for the plane …

Yes, 10 mins to do task using AI + 1 hour to walk to shop & back vs 1 hour to do task + 10 mins to drive to shop & back …

y'all, if you think running a chatgpt query uses a lot of water bottles, wait till I tell you about your cars

I think I’d see part time being the default, campuses more set up for group work, more interdisciplinarity, space to work in, access to expensive tools/ software/ art rooms etc and time with tutors to push - almost Montessori style learning for adults. I can but dream A6

Oh I don’t know, you can reflect on learning new things during your retirement and look at the importance of life long learning :)

Though it might take time, there have been challenges with many children entering school who missed nursery due to the pamdemic