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Kristina Hoeppner @4nitsirk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Learning is not just knowledge acquisition, but also learning about learning & yourself. The portfolio makes that learning visible & encourages you to document & reflect on it. @profcathyelliott.bsky.social has that baked into her classes & assessment criteria. podcast.mahara.org/2018360/epis...

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Kristina Hoeppner @4nitsirk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How can you incorporate relational marking or other ungrading methods into your classroom? @profcathyelliott.bsky.social from UCL says it's through unlearning established patterns. Listen to Cathy's full interview on our podcast 'Create. Share. Engage.' podcast.mahara.org/2018360/epis...

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Kristina Hoeppner @4nitsirk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Students reflect at the end of term in the class of @profcathyelliott.bsky.social. This is their opportunity to think about their work and what they have learned. Listen to the entire interview to learn how Cathy uses ungrading to improve student learning. podcast.mahara.org/2018360/epis...

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Great new post for @alpsblog.bsky.social on guiding students through information and misinformation

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Kristina Hoeppner @4nitsirk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Inviting others to view a student's portfolio is an integral part of the portfolio practice of @profcathyelliott.bsky.social Students need to understand the assessment criteria to give constructive feedback. Listen to her full interview on 'Create. Share. Engage.' podcast.mahara.org/2018360/epis...

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Kristina Hoeppner @4nitsirk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

@profcathyelliott.bsky.social practices relational marking where the portfolio is centre stage. Students create their portfolio, reflect on their learning, and discuss the assessment criteria because these can be changed in conversation. Listen to her interview. podcast.mahara.org/2018360/epis...

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Kristina Hoeppner @4nitsirk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Relational marking focuses on the student's entire learning journey in a course rather than a one-time assessment, says @profcathyelliott.bsky.social from UCL. That's why the portfolio is a perfect fit for that form of ungrading. podcast.mahara.org/2018360/epis...

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Always a pleasure to go back on the Mahara pod to talk portfolios and ungrading

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.

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UCL Centre for the Pedagogy of Politics @uclcpp.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Our own @profcathyelliott.bsky.social is talking about careers for slackers tomorrow for @aspirenetwork.bsky.social. Even if you do not self-identify as a slacker.... you might hear some good tips! All Aspire members welcome

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Do come and see me talking about enjoying your life and not poring endlessly over promotion criteria tomorrow for @aspirenetwork.bsky.social! (Spoiler: I think you might even be successful on the education-focused route, too, if you follow my tentative advice for slackers....)

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The last long-haul flight I took was in December 2019 and the last short-haul in January 2011. My life has been all the better for it with lots of trains/boats! I am taking the flight free challenge again this year.... Could you join me? #FlightFree2026 @flightfreeuk.bsky.social www.flightfree.co.uk

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Fight climate change: make the pledge to be flight free in 2026

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm talking this afternoon at the UCL Centre for Modern and Contemporary Britain about teaching about Britain and Britishness. I thought throughout making my presentation that I would be talking about anger and ambivalence but in fact it turns out to be a presentation about love. Do come along!

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Teaching Britain and Britishness: challenges and dilemmas

A Centre for Modern and Contemporary Britain round table discussion on how contemporary understandings and practices of British values, citizenship and belonging are being addressed in education with ...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

pedagogical first: diligent student asks permission to skip concluding lecture because (with a bunch going on this week including possible city occupation) they're worried they won't finish novel in time and really really don't want spoiler of Moll Flanders

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Happy to be at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social Teaching and Learning Network conference at RHUL! And by appropriate and lucky chance I can also share @rosegann.bsky.social's @alpsblog.bsky.social blog on pedagogical research in education-focused careers! activelearningps.com/2025/09/03/t...

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Claire Timperley @clairetimperley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Kate and I are delighted to see our article on spacious learning published in @politicsjournal.bsky.social. In it, we advocate for slower spaces that centre ‘being’ rather than rushing to do or produce. We share three practices from our own teaching as examples: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Screenshot of article abstract, accessible at this link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02633957251370594
The title of the article is 'Spacious learning: A critical reflection on active learning in political science'. The abstract reads: "Active learning is often understood as students ‘doing and producing’ academic work. This approach has a tendency to promote learning as a project of dynamic knowledge acquisition rather than one of being and becoming. In this article, we propose a more capacious understanding of active learning that makes room for spacious learning. Spacious learning invites students into slower spaces that centre ‘being’ rather than rushing to do or produce. This approach treats learning as a process rather than a means to an end, allowing students time to sit with ideas and to relate them to their own lives and experiences. We then offer practical examples of invitations to spacious learning in political science, highlighting transformative everyday practices that sustain spaciousness in the classroom: micro-communities of learning, relational scaffolding for research and creative projects, and reflective writing."

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

"Ecologists are only just beginning to grasp the full threat that extreme heat poses to the world’s wildlife populations, and how quickly it can drive species towards extinction. ...It has become a driver of biodiversity loss on a par with – or worse than – deforestation and habitat loss."

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge, "Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor" Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke Thei have all come to looke for America

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EHN. @envhnow.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We're so excited to share our first book review, part of a new series here at EHN. Kate Prengel discusses #clifi and the new Climate Fiction Prize shortlist envhistnow.com/2025/07/22/h...

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Hope and Dystopia: Learning from Climate Fiction

A new literary prize asks how storytelling can drive greater optimism – and action – in the face of climate change.

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I teach this! It's a seminar for first-year undergrads called The Science of How to Study and they love it. (But it only reaches a very small number of students, would be great to have as a regular part of the curriculum)

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Everyone is secretly hoping someone else will be the one to yell DO YOU WANT TO BE FRIENDS at them.

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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

AIPedagogy.org from Harvard's metaLAB was already the best-designed introduction to AI for educators I knew of. I return to it again and again for creative, critical assignment ideas. Now it's even more user friendly and offers a space to compare chatbots and change their settings.

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Creative and critical engagement with AI in education AI Guide Looking for a step-by-step introduction to AI? Our guide is designed to help you understand what AI is, how it works, and what it can and...

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Hear me read 'Frog Song' through the Aftershock Review substack Along with my other new poems given a doorway to readers by @maxwallis.bsky.social, Frog Song is going to be in my 3rd collection Emergency Dream, publishing with @serenbooks.bsky.social in March 2026. #Swims #PondLife #BeMoreFrog

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Frogsong by Polly Atkin

Today, I don’t want to write about abandonment / or anger, about the limits of love, / or the invisible border where our worlds meet that dissolves / all mutual care – how to shed it – to go on /

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: symptomatic relief

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: Cumbria Constabulary (In honour of your current listening, @jeremymoulton.bsky.social)

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: PET NICE TO HAVES

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Slight diminish a band: Public Service Podcast

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: Arcade Ashes

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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This is a useful read - not on board with everything here (section 2 gives me pause) but "students need to be prepared and ready to unlearn and rebuild" is such an interesting point I've not seen noted: the ability to deconstruct and reorientate when necessary is key to academa, and rarely explicit.

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

'What is the greater risk? Biases in oral assessment? Or generating cohorts of graduates with skills to complete unseen, closed-book exams that are likely to be of limited value?' www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/07/14/t...

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Transforming higher education learning, assessment and engagement in the AI revolution: the how - HEPI

AI demands a radical shift in education, fostering adaptability, creativity, ethics, and collaboration to thrive in a transformed world.

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UCL Centre for the Pedagogy of Politics @uclcpp.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Cathy has been writing about flipped learning today. Look out for the example videos from her class embedded in the post! @uclspp.bsky.social

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Cathy Elliott @profcathyelliott.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I've got a blog out today on @alpsblog.bsky.social about flipped learning: why and how I do it, what the students think and a bit of advice on how to go about it. Let me know your thoughts! Thanks to @roberttalbert.bsky.social for the prompts! activelearningps.com/2025/08/11/f...

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Flipped Learning

Some of my students mentioned to me after I gave a public lecture earlier in the year that they’d never seen me lecture before! I am very proud of this and although a lecture can be a fun and…

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

i DO have main character energy. if the film is Day After Tomorrow

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

New blog post: "On Grief" in higher ed. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

An overhead photograph of a road passing through snowy fields. The road forks toward the left of the picture.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Fun fact: we devote ten times more space to golf courses in England than we do to allotments (source: OS Greenspace data) www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... bsky.app/profile/josi...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Course evaluations have been a ticking time bomb for years. An absolute Trojan horse of an institutional feature that offers zero helpful data points for improving education and the research on its downsides *before this* latest manipulation is a mile wide.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/07/2025

We are going to have the fun thing happen again where a dozen cisgender female athletes discover they have Y chromosomes.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

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The ASPIRE Network @aspirenetwork.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Great question from @profcathyelliott.bsky.social! What's your advice for getting an education focused role?

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

"Honestly, I just want one school – one! – to step up and say "no" to the ed-tech and AI vultures. I want one school to say "we trust our professors. We trust our students." 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-prime-di...

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The Prime Directive

Over a decade ago, at the height of the MOOC madness, many people crowed excitedly about "the end of college" – not because the various technologies they believed would enable this were any good (by "...

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