In our latest blog Drew Whitworth from Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) asks if it is time to restructure HE exams in favour of project-based digital assessments, which develop skills more relevant to future employment: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2021/12/…

When crimes are committed, always ask, "Who benefits"? #Oxfam report notes: "The wealth of the world’s 10 richest men has doubled since the pandemic began. The incomes of 99% of humanity are worse off because of COVID-19." policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/ineq… #health #inequality

He keeps making me look good on Twitter :-) #nonleague

Interesting and straightforward article: worth reading if you are into developing any kind of online learning or multimedia; also valid points about how architecture shapes practice #MADTCE @MADTCE #education #technology #Apple theregister.com/2022/03/01/the…

In case you thought the #Dystopia wasn't here, in Shanghai people are being kept prisoner at home by robots: theregister.com/2022/04/06/sha… The logical extension of the operation to push us into a digital carceral state. Take care what you wish for, it may come true. #lockdown

Vote Shiraz Khan, i say 😁. #VoteShiraz #OneTownOneTeam

First talk heard at #Lilac2022. @AnneLiseHarding notes how in a House of Commons research library the info landscape looks different than in the university... Grey literature, reports, not academic papers #DMIL

Call information literacy "information scrutiny" to attract interest, as the audience in this case (Commons researchers) are comfortable with the notion of scrutiny @AnneLiseHarding #DMIL

What is 'data literacy'? A specific skills set that allows us to transform data into information and then knowledge? #Lilac2022 #DMIL "Being able to 'read and write' data visualisations is becoming as important as learning to read and write text"

Where this one's going I have no idea but the last talk of the day is - "Sounding the Radical Catalog: Sharing Information Literacy Concepts Through Sound".... One for my students and their 'creative approaches' angle I am sure :-) #DMIL #LILAC2022

Another creative approach to #informationliteracy from Elizabeth Brookbank, using leisure reading collections in academic settings to boost IL, creativity, well being #DMIL #Lilac2022 @MADTCE

theregister.com/2022/04/11/loc… And let's note the following - "On Friday April 8, state-sponsored media Xinhua said there had been a total of 131,524 positive COVID cases in the city, of which only one was severe. There have allegedly been no deaths." #DMIL @MADTCE

UoM colleagues, is it just me or has email gone bye-bye for everyone this morning? #thatmondayfeelingonatuesday @MADTCE Stephen Rayner @wilfarmstrong

1,150 year old footnotes in the MacDurnan Gospels at Lambeth Palace Library LambethPalaceLibrary -- noting where the same passage can be found in Matthew, Mark and Luke. Gorgeous object. Very much enjoying my course on The #Medieval #Book (#informationliteracy archaeology...)

Trying hard not to feel bad about dropping out of a meeting this afternoon, because changing it from face to face into online made it LESS accessible, not more. It can work that way... #enoughZoomAlready

Drew Whitworth

Look carefully at this quote from the #BBC web site and ask yourself -- yes indeed, would a zombie truly have done a worse job than Truss? #GeneralElectionNow #thanksToryMembers

One must admire the section heading, 'The exponential rate of internet shittification'... Saying that AI might destroy the internet as a useful space is worrying, but maybe we'll remember there are alternatives (y'know, books, etc). theregister.com/2022/12/06/int… #infolit #AI

How generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse). A conversation between @ABanksGatenby, Drew Whitworth and @ThePlatformUni about our teaching and research on this urgent topic youtube.com/watch?app=desk…

The memorial at the top of #Dundee Law, this morning...