Today is Ada Lovelace Day – an annual celebration of women in STEM.
To mark the occasion I used Storify to make a personal curation of the tweets and blog posts that I liked on #AdaLovelaceDay 2017 (#ALD17)
Today is Ada Lovelace Day – an annual celebration of women in STEM.
To mark the occasion I used Storify to make a personal curation of the tweets and blog posts that I liked on #AdaLovelaceDay 2017 (#ALD17)
A big news story today was the QAA’s publication of advice for universities on how to combat contract cheating.
I made a Twitter moment:
Important thread on work patterns in academia.
I recommend that you read the whole thread!
Perhaps it reflects the US experience more than the UK, but I think the pendulum might be swinging this way in the UK too.
One of the replies
prompted this response from the Times Higher’s Phil Baty
What do you think?
I’ve been a teacher in engineering and technology for over 30 years. I love computing, coding, and ed tech. I spend hours on-line watching videos to increase my understanding of the technologies that I love. I love engaging with my personal learning networks, particularly #LTHEChat and #CreativeHE. I take part in MOOCs and am curious about teaching and learning and how to do it. I’m a course leader and want my students to have the best experience possible. I think I’m a good mentor to my colleagues and respected for my experience,knowledge and skills and in my institution. What I haven’t cracked is translating my enthusiasm for my subjects into engagement in the classroom.
Part of this stems from my natural reserve. I am definitely not an extrovert. I don’t find it natural to be the life-and-soul-of-the-party. Social occasions are difficult for me in real life. (Interestingly I’m more extroverted in social media.) So perhaps I don’t come across as enthusiastic in the classroom setting. I’m better one-on-one and in small group contexts, but most of my students don’t get to experience that.
So how do I improve? I’m hoping the Enthusiastic HE community can help!
This post was written for Enthusiastic HE as part of Santanu Vasant’s September 13 #HEblogswap.
LTHEChat returned last night with a chat on Staff and Student “Digital” Development led by Simon Thompson (@digisim) supported by the new backroom team.
There will be a Storify but I thought I would provide a personal curation of the key conversations that I engaged with or noticed during and after the chat.
This is made easier by a WordPress feature that converts the URL of a tweet into an embedded tweet.
Hint: click on the embedded tweets to access the conversations.
My reciprocal post on Enthusiastic HE.