Tag: skills
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What’s the academic version of these Steph Curry drills?
The best performers in sport have drills they use to keep improving. What do academics do to improve? What’s our version of these drills?
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Blown away with Adobe Firefly
Earlier today I had a quick look at Adobe’s Firefly generative AI system, which is going to be embedded across many of their products. And I was blown away. You can get a sense of the ease with which you can tweak variables in this video. Generative fill is what Adobe is calling the feature…
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AI deprecating core disciplinary skills
Every profession has adopted technology in ways that deprecate some of the skills that were core to the profession. For example, I imagine that learning how to develop photos in a darkroom was once a core part of learning photography. Outside of niche contexts, I wonder how many photographers still develop film in darkrooms. The…
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Skills we want our students to have
This post was inspired in part by this article on the 10 skills that every student should learn. These are some of the skills that we’re intentionally trying to help our students develop, as a way of integrating them into the culture of professional clinical practice. Reading carefully. If you can read you can learn…
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Results of my Delphi first round
I’ve recently finished the analysis of the first round of the Delphi study that I’m conducting as part of my PhD. The aim of the study is to determine the personal and professional attributes that determine patient outcomes, as well as the challenges faced in clinical education. These results will serve to inform the development…
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Posted to Diigo 06/30/2010
1037. The Link Between Teaching and Research – Does it Exist? « Tomorrow’s Professor Blog Faculty members with strong research records and below-average teaching routinely get to be full professors, while outstanding teachers with below-average (and sometimes average) research productivity don’t get tenure Depressingly many research papers are published that have little or no impact…