#lthechat A6 How do we know what GenAI actually costs? (Using the broadest possible definition of cost to range from environmental to labour exploitation)

#lthechat A5 That we ignore it and fail to take advantage of it, and thereby don’t help students adopt an appropriate critical stance.

#lthechat A4 Feels like we are all in the same boat - wondering where (and how) this tech can take us. Excellent source for co-creation projects to figure this out?

#lthechat A2 Useful as a tool to generate images which reveal common stereotypes and bias, as in the recent Gemini ‘blunders’.

#lthechat A1 Reactions so far very mixed. Some still believe it will ‘go away’

#lthechat A5 We could adopt assessment policies and strategies which we could clearly explain to students and which they would experience as compassionate, e.g. not penalising the occasional failure which we do now; having an assessment scale which everyone understands & shares.

#LTHEchat A2 If many of our assessment practices were updated to become more ‘sensible’ and ‘reasonable’ then students would feel they are being treated with compassion.

#LTHEchat A1 Compassion = caring which is genuine and proactive?

#LTHEchat A5 If I was still teaching I would definitely include podcasts because the technology is now so much easier and flexible. Short podcasts on key concepts and common misunderstandings would be a good starting point.

#LTHEchat A3 In some cases, learning to collaborate would be good. And leaving the ego at home!

#LTHEchat A2 Trust and support probably the key factors. And ‘permission’ to be flexible.

#LTHEchat A1 You need interest and enthusiasm from those who can make it happen plus an absence of bureaucracy

#lthechat A6 Start talking about it, openly and regularly?

#lthechat A2 Just wondering where trust enters the equation. Compassion must be recognised as genuine for a full response. What is we do not trust the person who seems to be behaving compassionately?

#LTHEchat #AdvanceHE_chat A6 They can work very well if they are properly supported and valued. And that can be a big ‘if’.

#LTHEchat #AdvanceHE_chat A5 The answer to this question depends on how the management are implementing (or even permitting use of) the technology that staff could use to improve their working life. Tech can work both ways!

#LTHEchat #AdvanceHE_chat A4 They need to be open themselves! Not typical behaviour in my experience.

#LTHEchat #AdvanceHE_chat A3 Judging by several conversations I have had recently with staff in universities across the UK the rhetoric of wellbeing often fails to translate into practice.

#LTHEchat #AdvanceHE_chat A1 One way that HEIs could show more understanding of their staff is to abandon the standardisation of rules and regulations which seems so prevalent.