Cathy Elliott
@profcathyelliott.bsky.social
Vice Dean Education in UCL Social and Historical Sciences Faculty. SFHEA. Regular contributor to ALPS blog. Co-Director UCL Centre for the Pedagogy of Politics. Politics of pedagogy and nature.
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Everyone is secretly hoping someone else will be the one to yell DO YOU WANT TO BE FRIENDS at them.
August 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Everyone is secretly hoping someone else will be the one to yell DO YOU WANT TO BE FRIENDS at them.
... process, effort, practice, engagement with 'real world' or 'authentic' skills.
August 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
... process, effort, practice, engagement with 'real world' or 'authentic' skills.
.... a set of source materials and so on. So, how are our students going to learn how 'to critique' in a world where AI is everywhere? (And don't get me wrong, I wish to God it wasn't, as it goes....) I don't have easy answers to this but I have a lot of sympathy with ideas about focusing on....
August 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
.... a set of source materials and so on. So, how are our students going to learn how 'to critique' in a world where AI is everywhere? (And don't get me wrong, I wish to God it wasn't, as it goes....) I don't have easy answers to this but I have a lot of sympathy with ideas about focusing on....
.... articulate what we mean by 'an argument' or 'critique', for example. Then once we are clear on that, there is the question of how we get students to practice those skills and get better at them. It strikes me that 'critique' is an applied skill: you do it *with* or *to* a text, an idea....
August 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
.... articulate what we mean by 'an argument' or 'critique', for example. Then once we are clear on that, there is the question of how we get students to practice those skills and get better at them. It strikes me that 'critique' is an applied skill: you do it *with* or *to* a text, an idea....
Yeah, I don't disagree – I do think we all need to do more thinking about what 'foundational skills' are (there will be disciplinary differences...) and how we articulate them to students. It's not obvious to me that when I meet third year students for the first time they are able to ....
August 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Yeah, I don't disagree – I do think we all need to do more thinking about what 'foundational skills' are (there will be disciplinary differences...) and how we articulate them to students. It's not obvious to me that when I meet third year students for the first time they are able to ....