Rachel Bancroft

Supporting students in building digital confidence? Read Searching for a shared understanding of digital confidence in a tertiary context: a scoping review by Rachel Bancroft, Rachel Challen & Rosemary Pearce in #JLDHE no.30 doi.org/10.47408/jldhe… #LoveLD

When people deploy LLM systems that carry high expectations for accuracy (“talk to my documents,” etc.) they expect users will check the sources of the AI work. That doesn’t happen. If AI is good enough, our research shows people stop paying attention. oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and…

Skepticism about AI should be considered a crucial part of AI literacy, not a problem to be solved. In a meeting about AI professional development for educators, I was concerned to hear a question to the effect of "How do we win over the AI skeptics?" Yes, it makes sense to invite people to engage with AI...but can we do that in a way that welcomes honest responses, including negative ones? It's worthwhile to look for bias, inaccuracies, and AI hype. Faculty reservations are worth exploring.

Say it once, say it right: Seven strategies to improve your academic writing. #AcWri wp.me/p4m9em-4VS

Gearing up to teach my summer class ENGL 313: Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing (with ChatGPT and other AI tools) this summer! Excited to introduce my students to many folks in the #criticalAIliteracy world.

📢ALDinHE is developing a CPD framework for Learning Developers. Please take a look at the proposed framework. If you are an experienced Learning Developer or new to the role, we welcome your feedback. shorturl.at/uF046 #LoveLD Please provide feedback by 24 May 2024.

@SarahAlcock19 @davecormier @TELresearchers Thanks for sharing your thoughts. My cat was much less engaged (he's like that), but I definitely got enough out of it for both of us. What a session.

Fabulous session with @davecormier today, thank you @TELresearchers for organising and sharing this. My mind is buzzing and I had to dump my thoughts in a blog immediately: sarahjalcock.com/2024/04/24/fla… Cat photo because he listened as intently as I did.

Supporting students in building digital confidence? Read Searching for a shared understanding of digital confidence in a tertiary context: a scoping review by Rachel Bancroft, Rachel Challen & Rosemary Pearce in #JLDHE no.30 doi.org/10.47408/jldhe… #LoveLD

Delighted to see our scoping review on #DigitalConfidence in @jldhe1 Whilst a shared understanding of digital confidence may still be emerging, there were potential implications for #DigitalTransformation, #employability and #wellbeing journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldh…

Our Easter present to you is our session with the amazing @davecormier on Wed 24 Apr! Dave is going to take us into his world of storytelling & finding meaning of his experiences. More info & book: bit.ly/DCormier0424 #TELresearchers #HEresearchers

When large AI models become proficient at narrow tasks, there's a tendency to oversimplify and reduce a discipline to a one-liner description that encapsulates the model's output. It's as if we're trying to solve for the first sentence in a Wikipedia entry: filmmaking is reduced to making pictures move, coding to writing code, and painting to creating images. We confuse being able to mimic the surface elements with deeply comprehending the underlying whole. This reductionist thinking leads to premature and exaggerated claims, such as "AI can generate a 20-second video, so it's the end of filmmaking." However, this logic assumes that the entirety of filmmaking can be boiled down to creating sequences of frames on a screen. That's like claiming that we've solved soccer because we've created a robot that can score a goal every time it kicks the ball. While scoring goals is the objective of soccer, the true essence of the game goes far beyond that. You can't solve soccer by optimizing for a simplistic description. These narrow tasks are merely the visible outputs - the finger pointing at the moon, not the moon itself. The problem lies in viewing things solely from the perspective of the AI model, rather than considering the human aspects of a discipline. We are obsessed with AI, but we should be obsessed with what people can do with AI.

New: Employers and HR vendors are using AI chatbots to interview and screen job applicants. We found that OpenAI's GPT discriminates against names based on race and gender when ranking resumes. W/ @daveyalba and @Leonardonclt gift link: bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

Call for Special Issue: The contribution of HE third space professionals to educational practice & pedagogy in the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education #JLDHE. Submissions due 31 March 2024. journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldh… #LoveLD

Long time no tweet! Happy to be back with a new paper on #GenAI policies in HE assessment. There is a critical silence regarding what it means by “original work” when knowledge production becomes increasingly distributed, collaborative and mediated by AI. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

thoughtful post from @jim_dickinson @Wonkhe about what is cheating with AI and what is not. wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/th… #AberPGCTHE

Blackboard keeps on adding new AI features to their AI Design Assistant in Ultra. We new have access to Discussion, Journal, and Assignment generation features. Once it has been turned on at an institutional level, there's no opt outs I can see. Should faculty have a say in this?

#BottomLine No. 921: Towards a modest and critical inclusive teaching - How would someone who is presently feeling excluded feel reading your language? @sarahesilverman sarahemilysilverman.com/2024/01/05/tow…

In 2 weeks of being published, we have had 1600+ downloads of papers from our Journal of Learning Development in HE #JLDHE No. 29 (2023): Special Edition, ALDinHE Conference Collaborative Proceedings. Treat yourself to a read today journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jldhe #LoveLD 📑

Join us for the Zoom launch event for #HE4Good Higher Education for Good co-edited by @czernie @catherinecronin - two dates for different timezones next week - details and registration links in the Equity Unbound blogpost: myfest.equityunbound.org/uncategorized/…