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The book next to the book: embedding serendipity as pedagogy
I have been thinking about libraries. Not in any systematic way, obviously, but in a wandering-about-rather-happily-confused sort of way. More specifically, I have been thinking about the book next to the book I was there to find. I have spent a lot of time wandering around university libraries looking for an actual physical book. Sometimes…
Efficiency and Wisdom?
I was happy to be a co-author on a chapter for the Manifesto for Generative AI in Higher Education, The Book Project Our chapter is in response to statement 15 : Efficiency is seductive; wisdom lingers. The co-authors were the excellent Dr Nigel Francis, and Dr Kevin Campbell-Karn. Our chapter is at https://pressbooks.pub/mfaihe/chapter/efficiency-is-seductive-wisdom-lingers
Against the Comfortable Curriculum
At the University of Gloucestershire Festival of Learning, I was delighted to be invited to deliver a keynote lecture and spoke on the theme of Against the Comfortable Curriculum: Inclusion, Decolonisation, Justice, and the Trouble with “Good Practice”. I did not set out to argue that good practice is bad. Nor did I suggest that…
Brain Rot, AI Slop and the Work of Thinking
How can we teach and work in what Adam Aleksic calls our ‘hypermediated reality’? I spoke today at EdTech World Forum in London on Education in an Age of Brain Rot, AI Slop and Cognitive Offloading. The title is not elegant, like my usual efforts… But it tries to capture the feeling many of us…
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