Tag: Assessment
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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…
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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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Is written feedback on assignments useless? Listening to Phil Race at Gloucestershire..
On January 20th, we had the pleasure at Gloucestershire to welcome Phil Race, to spend a day with us, talking primarily about the issues of assessment and feedback in Higher Education. You can read more, and download the slides he used, via his blog post about the visit, but I want to focus in here…
Dave Webster 