A 🧵 on burnout Yesterday I learned that when people are burnt out, their amygdala enlarges. For all you non-neuroscientists, here's what that means and why it's important. 1/ #AcademicChatter Academic Chatter™ Academic Encouragement

Zero draft is a critical part of the academic writing process. But a lot of folks ignore it and run into all sorts of problems including the writer's block. Here's what a zero draft is and why you should write one:

How to use ChatGPT *smartly* as a personal writing assistant:

Delighted to launch our Compendium of Assessment Methods: Students' perspectives resource with our student authors at the TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath Showcase of Teaching, Learning and Assessment. Now available from bit.ly/3ufkiO2. Thanks N-TUTORR for funding

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🚨 Good Bye Reality Every single video in this thread was generated by Open AI's new text to video model "Sora" 🤯 🧵 1/48

Terrible news.

That moment before landing, before an audience, in the air. What teaching is.

Your regular reminder that we shouldn't be trying to build assessment that AI "can't do" because the frontier moves so fast. Here's a slide from today; the figure on the right is from the book on the left us.macmillan.com/books/97812507…

Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Narrative and Religion in the Superdiverse City by @stephenpihlaja Free access available until 26 April. cup.org/4cNvjrz #cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

If I heard this on the radio I would not guess it as AI-generated. I guess this is the world we live in now.

Therapeutic afternoon with a chainsaw and a maul.

Re "students using AI to write will rob them of ability to think because thinking is writing" discourse: turns out that in the biggest new artform of recent decades, artists stopped writing youtube.com/watch?v=FSgl95…

We continue to be pleasantly surprised at the increasing number of downloads/reads of our paper on student fears of oral presentations. Is the most read paper of all time in Journal of Further and Higher Education Taylor & Francis Research Insights

Would love your thoughts Dr Lauren Traczykowski.

A reminder that the 'lectures vs active learning' meta-analysis used to justify the death of the lecture defined active learning as doing something active for at least 5 mins of a class. Most decent lectures count as active learning in this framework pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

The myth of Learning Styles and what we can do instead to help our students learn. poorvucenter.yale.edu/LearningStyles… #AberPGCTHE

Absolutely Hansika Kapoor!

“Only about 10% of school achievement can be attributed to schools and teachers while the remaining 90% is due to characteristics associated with students.” A fascinating finding from a fascinating paper

🧵 One of the most devastating graphs around AI in education was published by the OECD recently that confirms what those interested in the SoL have known for some time. 🤯 Performance ≠ learning. Here’s the 60 Second briefing 👇👇👇 1/5