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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

After would be late for me - before?

Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ooooh - invite us all in - would love to discuss what you did on a Zoom call - and I bet the rest of #LTHEChat would too?

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Colum @columfromcork.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

YES! The mindset of private equity has crept into everything The assumption seems to be that every hour, every object, every relationship should be producing a return Hanging out has become networking Hobbies have become side hustles Here's to boredom, and dreams and time spent messing around

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have the remnants of that cow in my caravan still!! :-D

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Colum @columfromcork.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thanks everyone who participated in @lthechat.bsky.social There aren't easy answers to the challenges of engagement, impact of commuting & many students having to work more and more hours But it's great to have a discussion & see the passion people have to always seek to improve things #LTHEchat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#LTHEChat It's been so lovely being here in real time for this chat! I have loved it - thank you all - and thank you @columfromcork.bsky.social for the great provocations!

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Kate Gilliver @penarthkate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I saw that on your blog and liked the look of it. We have Wednesday afternoon protected, for sport, student societies etc. as per tradition, but that's different from a slot in between classes where collaboration, peer support or individual quiet times might fit. #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A6 Give them time to think, process, with a few reflective question. Equally leave them time to mind wonder 🤔 - yes, doing nothing changes everything! #LTHEChat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No - that hour to just be wouldn't look very attractive - but what a joy if we could make it so? #LTHEChat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#LTHEChat A6 Yes - one hour to sit and stare - what a lovely idea!! (Of course following my logic - it should be a module - and at the end they should produce something that reflected back to the rest of us what that hour per week had brought them - even if it were just the joy of boredom!)

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A4 I'd say give them a free breakfast - toast, a teacake, porridge plus a drink. Many commute and if they have a 9am class don't have time to eat before they set off #LTHEchat

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Louise Rees 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🎨🦒🦦 @louiserees.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A4 Engaging teaching Connected transportation links Facilities that support them to remain on campus Opportunities to connect with course peers or other activities e.g. societies, volunteering #lthechat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#LTHEChat A5 One big pandemic lesson was how important the social was & hats off to staff who ran quizzes and film nights and writing socials so that students could have some of that social interactive stuff... BUT - we don't do that now & of course it wouldn't be funded - but perhaps is should be?

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A4 In addition to a timetabled class and hopefully more than one, it could be attending a peer group meeting, a society or sport activity, a careers event or time spent in the library or quiet space to work on an assignment. #LTHEchat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#LTHEChat A4Travelling in shd be rewarded with interaction, not a lecture. Interactive workshops, dialogic seminars, time to be in the canteen together - and perhaps that module that rewards you for being a peer mentor or belonging to the SU or being in a Club or Society or something else glorious?

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't care whether the room is virtual or F2F, but being in the room should matter. It's about human relationships, supporting each other, playing with ideas together - and co-constructing knowledge together. Learning is not a spectator sport but a team event ? #LTHEChat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes - and reaching out to students who have missed sessions is not surveillance but care, sometimes they are nervous about returning... and I don't care if the class is online or F2F, but I do want students to have time together to bond, and create learning together. #LTHEChat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#LTHEChat A3 When we had an office it was full of joyful resources & a fridge, microwave, kettle and tea, coffee, biscuits. People would pop their heads round the door and something magical happened, even if it was just a happy tea and a chat. Booking to sit in silence at a workspace can't compete!

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#LTHEChat A3 It's wierd when we reward students by suggesting they not come in. With our various reading/enhancement weeks, we would hold exhibitions of student work, we would say when we would be in the canteen so they could find us for a chat. We wanted to show they mattered & being there counted

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you Sue! Always good to know you are here!!

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We tried to recreate that commonroom feel when running drop-ins - with an urn for tea and coffee and biscuits for an early morning catch up - and a friend at work has that arrangement for all her students - a friendly place to drop-in, make tea, have a chat #LTHEChat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#LTHEChat A2 Students are too busy & weighted with work and responsiblities - they would need 'permission' to just be in and around the university these days. Same with staff: if we're not being visibly productive we're doing something wrong! Slow time, laughter, just 'being with' is a luxury

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's one reason why we always set our students out and about to see where learning was actually happening around the university - and in reading weeks, rather than the reward being not to come in, we would be in the canteen - happy to meet with them informally ... #LTHEChat

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Scott Turner @scottturneruon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A1 in the cafe and in labs #LTHEchat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#LTHEChat A1 The conversations that mattered the most took place in the canteen. I would camp there for hours - and my friends would come and go - we would talk and talk... (the library was across the stair well, so I would occasionally pop in there to grab an offprint to read...

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#LTHEChat I think I can actually join live tonight!! Hallo, Sandra, working from a caravan in Kent...

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was the second year of loans and it was fascinating the difference between us, and the final year students on grants... I don't think anyone ever checked attendance at anything, though. And yes! Unless they perceive network/CV value, now it's so hard for students to see how anything "fun" helps...

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We had to be in, a lot - but we had grants! After abolishing fees! I want a module that allows students to join the SU, start a CLub, join aSociety. Our timepoor students don't give themselves permission to do these things!

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Doug Belshaw @dougbelshaw.com · 24/09/2026

Just registered for both! #SysPrac26

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We know anyway, but you definitely know that more than the academic route matters when you look at private schools with their art, music, drama classes, their sports fields and their development of student confidence, agency and selfefficacy - all of which Gove wanted to take away from our schools.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good! I did Child Development at 16 (at the time it was a CSE) and it was a fantastic course. We did a nursery placement as part of it. Enough of the 'only academic subjects matter' approach to learning.

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I teach online so slides are quite useful, but I avoided them F2F for years. I loved creating the class in real time, making pattern notes on the board to model notemaking. The other horror is staff telling students not to make notes they can look at the slides later. No! late never comes #LTHEchat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Of course there was always that teacher who came in and started writng on the roller board and all you did was copy down the words, desperate to keep up - with no dialogue at all - in fact she didn't even turn around as she wrote... #LTHEchat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The PPT seems to have constrined our very thinking about teaching! Going in to a room with a chalk or white board and a few notes and an idea - and then creating the class - and making the notes on the board as we go - such a powerful modelling of active learning #LTHEchat

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was just contemplating how I used to teach secondary English Literature using a roller chalkboard when I started out and basically we would be live modelling most of the time because you had to. Interesting to consider how PPT has made teaching less interactive and more 'delivery' based. #EduSky

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 24/09/2026

“I tried giving up football and finding a pursuit that made me less miserable.” In The Sociological Review magazine, academic and lifelong Sheffield Wednesday supporter Michael Brennan makes the case for protecting the social and civic function of football clubs. buff.ly/Wfk7DXf @swfc.co.uk

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You say what I feel so succinctly and so powerfully: "We feel how the system tries to hijack our time and effort away from sustaining relationships with staff colleagues and with students, so changing the institution seems the most(?) important target". thank you #LTHEchat

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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We must build closer connections between research and practice to make sure the questions researchers are asking are grounded in everyday realities, says CEO @beckyfrancis.bsky.social as @theeef.bsky.social launches consultation on the challenges facing education

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Creating a closer connection between research and practice

EEF’s Professor Becky Francis explains why it’s vital that education research answers the most pressing questions facing educators – and how teachers can help ensure they do just that

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ifawolowo.bsky.social @ifawolowo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can ask educators to build belonging, but if institutional systems continually squeeze out the time needed for relationships, we are working against the grain. Perhaps belonging needs to become an institutional priority, not simply another responsibility placed on individual educators. #LTHEchat

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Penny Wheeler @pennyjw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A6 - We feel how the system tries to hijack our time and effort away from sustaining relationships with staff colleagues and with students, so changing the institution seems the most(?) important target #LTHEchat

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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

YES - thank yo for the great questions @ifawolowo.bsky.social - and to #LTHEchat for all the great answers - and even more questions!

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks for the great questions @ifawolowo.bsky.social and engaging discussion! #LTHEchat

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