Emma Duke-Williams
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Emma Duke-Williams
@emmadw.bsky.social
Ed Tech & Learning Designer, interested in Social Aspects of learning. Outside work love travelling, photography & Lego #EduSky #AcademicSky
have to say, not convinced about the new Apps thing - some programmes (office, I'm looking at you) weren't showing in it (though others that are in the Dock are, so it's not that); nor can I sort by *my* logic. (e.g. "Apple Guff" & Screencasting - two things I used to have, 1 ignored, 1 used!
October 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
My work Macbook has decided it needs to update, so, I'll do it on that one & then decide about what I'll do at home :)
October 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I was there at the start of the summer :) However, recently, just snowed under with work :( And got out of the habit of using this platform.
September 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I think the environmental issues are useful to discuss, yes training takes a lot, but streaming Netflix etc also does. We need to be mindful of all digital environmental issues. Ethical issues such as copyright, bias etc are more specific in AI context than other scenarios.
June 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
That’s what gets Ed & Learning techs a bad rep :(
To me, I’m an Educator first & foremost, technologist 2nd. So, AI, useful to generate *potential* m/c questions to help students untangle a complex paper, or similar for an open question in a discussion board. Not the exam or formal coursework
June 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Thank you! I thought it was under lifestyle. Perhaps I'm muddling Guardian navigation with BBC. (Interestingly, for something under UK, I can see 3 articles, Derbyshire, Hong Kong & Estonia. So, it's actually UK/Global education :)
May 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
3: get back into being a 3 year old and asking “why?” - about even the most mundane of things
May 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I can’t actually remember learning to ride my bike, but it clearly involved bruised knees, scrapes & figuring out what to do to not fall off. I do remember learning to wear a t-shirt (not no top) after falling off into the nettles one very hot day as I was figuring out the balancing stuff!
May 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I also think there are huge diffs between personal reflection (which could even be “ thank goodness I never have to do that again”), reflection with peers, and reflection for assessment which is what many HEIs mean by reflection & many students don’t like
May 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I think some areas just don’t call it “reflection”. For example in software engineering, you’d be asking did it perform as expected? What about edge cases? Could it be done more efficiently? It’s just not called reflection
May 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Agree, can also highlight reflection for self, reflection with trusted peers, reflection for assessment … all start the same, may well emphasise different aspects
May 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I think one of the potential dangers of that is *every* teacher getting students to do that. Doing it at the start to then help students understand the importance of doing it if using AI; maybe some will decide that working with original texts is actually more efficient (for them)
May 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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A2 it's hard to recognise your own assumptions and biases. Students might think whatever is written as absolutely true. #LTHEchat
May 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Primary school children are excellent at philosophy as they won't stop asking 'why'? It's a shame that education tries to knock that out of them (and, of course, we know why the state might want to do that). #LTHEChat
May 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#LTHEchat A1 -Pre AI: Ability to evaluate differing views (inc those you may disagree with) take a balanced view; now, add in evaluation of accuracy
May 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It was our first trip, hoping it won’t be the last!
May 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We saw it today! Looks fabulous in situ! Was tempted to buy the Fabuland exclusive set, but I’m a wee bit before that, so got the previous years exclusive, and a duck. Now hoping they’ll fit in the bags for the plane …
May 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Yes, 10 mins to do task using AI + 1 hour to walk to shop & back vs 1 hour to do task + 10 mins to drive to shop & back …
May 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM