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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I'm presenting here with my colleagues about our digital confidence project today - looking forward to hearing what people think about this oft-mentioned, seldom discussed area. #udigcap

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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Our new blog post (linked below) gives some detail about our contribution to the book Teaching and Learning with Innovative Technologies in Higher Education: Real world case studies (ed. Roushan, Polikinghorne and Patel, 2025) 🎉

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The mother of invention – what have we taken with us from the time of the pandemic? – LTSU Blog

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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I'm looking through the first chapter and really enjoying how clearly and succintly concepts are being explained and the discussion videos for digging into the key points.

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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I hadn't heard the term "minimal computing" until today but the way it is discussed in the intro to this special issue feels like I've been waiting for it for years now!

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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

An online event series for those working towards an Advance HE fellowship but who aren't in a traditional teaching role: ntuhum-ltsu.com/hea-fellowsh...

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Fellowship Connections for Professional Roles: an online event series – LTSU Blog

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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Just learned about TKSST, a large curated collection of actually interesting, varied, and kid-friendly (but not kid-focussed) YouTube videos - and I want to watch them all. Going to start with this one: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/a-firef...

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A firefighter’s raw POV footage in a burning house – The Kid Should See This

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 08/11/2024

When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses. But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.

A painting of the Colosseum in ruins by Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, ca. 1692-1765).

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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hadn't seen that one yet, I'll check it out. Currently experimenting with Newsblur which is a one man and his (cute cute) dog operation and visually is... not the slickest. But I think that's actually a good sign.

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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My colleagues Beth (@nny.bsky.social) and Emily have put together this post - it's about how we've been trying to accomodate all the different ways our brains work, in part so as to better harness their ⚡power⚡

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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Sick of moaning about the state of the internet to my friends and loved ones, I'm thinking of finally doing something to improve my enjoyment of it - reengage with an RSS reader. Anyone use these and know a good one?

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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

We read and posted about @emilymbender.bsky.social 's excellent article 'Resisting Dehumanisation in the age of 'AI''. Our reflective takeaways: What might be the unacknowledged ways we contribute to the dehumanising impacts of AI? As part of the 'informed public', how can we be better informed?

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GenAI reading club: resisting the “dehumanizing” effects of generative AI – LTSU Blog

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Here's a Critical AI starter pack. I didn't see one so I made it! Likely to be missing people so please suggest folks, yourself included! go.bsky.app/UPULf1S

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

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Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky

Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!

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Cheryl Brown @cherylbrown.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Reminder that digital inclusion is not only about enabling students to use technologies it’s about giving them agency to know and decide when NOT to use technologies as well.

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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Blackboard Ally does something like this, with a very similar icon for each resource, and an overall report ally.ac. I also think it does incite action, but as always with a focus on metrics it's perhaps easy to get abstracted from the actual intent of the tool, trying only to move that dial...

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Blackboard Ally - Accessible content is better content

Ally seamlessly integrates with the Learning Management System and automatically generates alternative accessible formats, provides instructor feedback and generates an institutional accessibility rep...

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

FYI to new users, this is a great feed to follow. It’s just gift links to articles bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

3/3 This concept has been discussed widely, but I think the way Chiang expresses it has just helped solidify it for me. First Bluesky post and I made it a triple – did I do it right? :/

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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

2/3 If they delegate a lot of those decisions to GenAI, students lose the practice of having to make them, and opportunities for their submissions to better reflect their own specific voice, background and experience (Chiang has something to say about originality too that I think I needed to hear).

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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Finally read the Ted Chiang article about AI and art that's quoted everywhere (so quotable!). It articulates something key about what art (or creativity) is - decision-making. Lots. And this applies as much to student assessments as it does to novel-writing. 1/3 www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Used to be the cake forks - two sets! - but they’ve become uncursed (exorcised?) once I realised they make serviceable implements for digging out cornichon.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

How did Britain vote in 2024 by supermarket, I hear you ask?

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

In the UK there's approx. 823m unused/broken tech items hiding in “drawers of doom” containing as much as 38.5k tonnes of copper - enough to provide 30% of copper needed for UK’s planned transition to a decarbonised electricity grid by 2030. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Britons urged to dig out unwanted electricals to tackle copper shortage

Items such as cables and old tech could contain £266m worth of metal vital for decarbonisation drive, study finds

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