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Dr Mary Jacob L&T

@maryjacob.bsky.social
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Passionate about pedagogy Aberystwyth University L&T Enhancement Unit PGCTHE Coordinator, Lecturer in L&T wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/cat…

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
sorry to hear this, Kate. You make a huge contribution and I hope that you don't have to go through the at-risk experience again.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
It came out in 2017 that Kahnemann's evidence wasn't necessarily fully replicable (doesn't mean his ideas are bunk, just need to factor in the limits). Here's his response: replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/r...
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Reconstruction of a Train Wreck: How Priming Research Went off the Rails - Replicability-Index
This blog post focusses on Chapter 4 about Implicit Priming in Kahneman's book "Thinking" Fast and Slow." A review of the book and other chapters can be found here: https://replicationindex.com/2020/1...
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Great CPD opportunity from #LTHEchat this Wednesday. #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Asked Google for a definition of AI slop. This is what I got. Love the irony of it! Asking other educators and developers... what are your thoughts on this? #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Someone brought this 5-minute clip from Harvard GS of Education on facilitating class discussion to my attention, and I thought it would be of value for others. Thinking time - fits nicely with think-pair-share as well. instructionalmoves.gse.harvard.edu/waiting-stud... #AberPGCTHE
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Waiting for student responses | Instructional Moves
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup key topics include #ActiveLearning #UDL #InclusiveTeaching #GenAI and more! Feat. @activelearningnet.bsky.social @jisc.bsky.social @ft30uk.bsky.social @tilenetwork.bsky.social and more! wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSkyu #AcademicSky
Weekly Resource Roundup by Dr Mary Jacob, Lecturer in learning and teaching, Aberystwyth University
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup of resources and online events useful for HE educators, posted today: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
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Weekly Resource Roundup – 27/10/2025
October 10/2025 Jisc Artificial Intelligence, AI Training Sessions 28/10/2025 RAISE AI in HE SIG, Generative AI for Academics 29/10/2025 UDL-UKI, UDL Night School: UDL for Learning Spaces (£10) 29/…
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup dropped just now with loads on inclusive teaching, Gen AI, trauma-informed teaching, anti-racism, neurodivergence, group learning and more wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
This looks great for embedding wellbeing in our higher education teaching! Even if you can't participate live, the blog post has loads of useful ideas and resources. #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky
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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Did you know retrieval practice, or trying to recall previously taught material, is the single most robust learning strategy supported by research? Just thinking about the previous content can aid long term retention Take a look at our Covert Retrieval guide ⬇️ Contact us enquiries@impact.wales
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
A3 #LTHEchat don't transcribe everything the speaker says, but process the info and link to prior knowledge. Include exact phrases/terms as appropriate. Online versus handwritten notes making for me are quite different. Online I take screen shots of Powerpoint slides alternating with my comments.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
A4 #LTHEchat for me, the biggest aesthetic is colour as in colour coding. That enables me to spot the structure of ideas and connections between them quite easily. Other than that, I don't care about aesthetics for note making.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
New #WeeklyResourceRoundup to help HE educators teach effectively and inclusively wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky #LTHEchat @jisc.bsky.social @transformassess.bsky.social @qaa.ac.uk @edufuturist.bsky.social @activelearningnet.bsky.social @aldinhe.bsky.social
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
thanks, I thought you would like to know that I'm including a link to your site in the upcoming #WeeklyResourceRoundup, which will be posted later today. wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/c... #AcademicSky #EduSky #AberPGCTHE
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Weekly Resource Roundup – Digital Education Group
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Tonight! #LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social with Nathalie Tasler @drntasler.bsky.social on effective note-making looks great! Useful resources in the blog post too. lthechat.com/2025/09/19/l...
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LTHEchat 336 Effective Note Making Systems from Paper to AI
Join us on Bluesky on Wednesday 24th September 2025 at 20:00 BST At the University of Glasgow we are in our first teaching week, the topic of note making, and its related systems see…
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Loads of online events in the #WeeklyResourceRoundup to help university staff develop our teaching practice: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I've been testing the accuracy of LLMs in transcribing printed and handwritten historical texts stored as images. I put together a corpus of 400 pages from the Library of Congress. Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Diolch yn fawr! :-) Please give my regards back to your Welsh family, great to have that connection.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... feat. @jisc.bsky.social @qaa.ac.uk @transformassess.bsky.social @lauanshul.bsky.social #EmpowerED @edufuturist.bsky.social @learningscientists.bsky.social & more.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
yes, any particular teaching context would require a customised balance of types of learning in any case. It's not the same for all modules.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Thanks for sharing this thoughtful article. Personally, I like ABC learning design, but I see your points about the limitations of the generic nature of Gen AI output in this context. I especially agree with you on the importance of having a subject matter expert do the curriculum planning.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
#AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Michael Webb @mwebb.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My colleague Sue Attewell leads our stream of work looking at staff and student perceptions of AI. In a new blog post the focus is with a group of pre-sessional international students. nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/09/0...
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Student Perceptions 2025: Insights from a Group of Pre-sessional International Students at the University of Manchester - Artificial intelligence
How do international students preparing to study in the UK view AI? Sue Attewell spoke with a group of pre-sessional students at Manchester, mostly from China, about their hopes, worries and everyday ...
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Bas Trimbos @bastrimbos.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Interesting read by @carlessdavid.bsky.social (2025) Feedback Literacy Concepts and Practices: Toward Academic Feedback Literacy, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 57:5, 5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2025.2539038
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Useful article about transmission style lectures and the assumptions that both students and teachers have. The illusion of attendance: a critical study of large-class lectures" by @colinloughlin.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
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The illusion of attendance: a critical study of large-class lectures
Large-class university lectures remain commonplace, yet their educational value is contested. While the majority of criticism contrasts transmissive lectures with active learning pedagogies, this c...
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
more here: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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How we tested AI search tools
Details on the methodology of our questions designed to challenge known AI blind spots
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Geoffrey Fowler ran an in-depth study on this, with librarians to evaluate the AI-generated responses. See his report here (be sure to read his take-aways at the end): www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social
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Review | We tested which AI gave the best answers without making stuff up. One beat ChatGPT.
Librarians helped us quiz AI bots with tough trivia, recent events questions and more. Some answers were impressive — others were worse than an old-fashioned Google search.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup with loads of resources to help you teach university (and other levels) effectively and inclusively. wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Favourite article for #AberPGCTHE. In my seminar, they read Chew's article in advance. I start with quick retrieval practice of the 7 points. Then they type examples from their own experience into a shared doc and we discuss. My students are mostly new HE lecturers.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
oh well, if you do publish something building on this, please tag me so that I can share it and amplify the message :-).
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
this sounds great! Will the recording be available afterwards? If so, I'd like to share it in the next #WeeklyResourceRoundup
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Dr Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel @drckt.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Join our symposium on "Cognitive and Motivational Individual Differences in the Effectiveness of Desirable Difficulties" today at 12:15 in HS01.15. #earli2025 Looking forward to discuss the interesting work presented as part of this symposium.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Marking another one like this just now! so lovely to see a graceful synthesis of sources and information showing deep insight into learning and teaching. What a delight! #AberPGCTHE is the best!
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's putting the facial recognition into their database that gives me pause
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Well I don't actually know your age but you look young and I've always been impressed by your energy level!
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
You do look young for your age though! 😍
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Indeed
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🤣
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Anyone feel uneasy about the methods we are required to use to prove that we're an adult? Just curious!
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Love that feeling when I'm marking student projects and come across one that is spot on - deep analysis, great use of sources, reflective, and deep insights into how students learn. These are our golden moments! #AberPGCTHE
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 11/06/2025
Academic staff working at Cardiff University have been so traumatised by the management of a hugely controversial cuts programme that some have contemplated suicide or having an abortion ✍️Martin Shipton
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Cardiff University academics 'have considered suicide and abortion because of cruel cuts programme'
Martin Shipton Academic staff working at Cardiff University have been so traumatised by the management of a hugely controversial cuts programme that some have contemplated suicide or having an abortio...
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup another harvest of resources and online events to support teaching in higher education wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The big question for me is, how accurate is the anatomy? (obviously some parts of this image are intentionally enlarged, so I don't mean that). Could the image be misleading for students who aren't already experts in that discipline? Same question for a lot of the STEM subjects.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A4 #LTHEchat Students create images for a specific purpose, evaluate which are best suited and why. Evaluate the prompting strategies to see which were most effective. Factor in time spent in iterative prompting. Compare AI-gen and found images. What factors make an image suitable for the purpose?
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
#LTHEchat Yes, or else over-compensate and still produce unbalanced images. I wanted a diverse mix of ethnicity in images of people studying. I made this clear in the prompt. In the beginning, they came out all white. Months later, similar prompts generated all black or East Asian-looking people.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A3 #LTCHEchat Good prompting practice evolves over time as the tools evolve. Same strategies give different types of results six months later, not always better, at least on the free platforms. Advice that works today may not work so well next month. Disappointing! I'm using it much less often now.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A2 #LTHEchat I agree with previous responses. Good for non-literal, futuristic images. Still not great for people and results often too 'samey'. I use iterative prompting. I also seek images on Flickr CC, Unsplash, Pixabay etc.
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A1 #LTHEchat sorry for responding so late after the session, last week I was away. I've used Gen AI for image generation since 2022, mainly using Night Cafe, offers Stable Diffusion, Dall-E and more. Uses: image for PPT slide etc or for my personal creative activity.
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