Tag: students
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Link: More than half of UK undergraduates using AI to write essays
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/01/more-than-half-uk-undergraduates-ai-essays-artificial-intelligence More than half of undergraduates say they consult artificial intelligence programmes to help with their essays, while schools are trialing its use in the classroom. Why are we still asking students to write essays?
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Student-suggested prompt for a recommendation letter
in AIThis is a great example of a teacher using a student-suggested prompt for a recommendation letter, where everyone, including the AI, are working together to reduce the time it takes to complete an administrative task. Everyone wins.
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Workshopping AI in higher education with students
I’m thinking about contributing to a workshop activity that involves students working on practical issues related to the implementation of AI-based services in higher education. Here are some ideas that I think might be worth exploring.
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How my students do case studies in clinical practice
Our students do small case studies as part of their clinical practice rotations. The basic idea is that they need to identify a problem with their own practice; something that they want to improve. They describe the problem in the context of a case study which gives them a framework to approach the problem like a research…
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Principles of learning
I’ve been cleaning up my office over the past few days and came across a handout that I probably received at a T&L workshop sometime during the past year, and thought I’d post a summary of it here. There is a link on the document to this online version, although the hard copy that I…
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Strategies to improve clinical teaching: a workshop
On Saturday I attended a workshop at Groote Schuur hospital that had the aim of providing “…clinicians with the opportunity to improve their ability to facilitate learning in clinical practice”. Objectives included improving the understanding of theories of learning, methods of enhancing learning and assessment practices and the role of assessment in learning. I was…
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Basic presentation skills for postgraduates
A few weeks ago I gave a presentation to our postgraduate students who were preparing to submit their Masters proposals. One of our requirements in the department is that any student wanting to submit a proposal must present to the the department for critical feedback. We want our proposals to be as strong as possible…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-30
Students’ Messages to Teachers. It’s important to connect with students on a personal level http://bit.ly/9Cv46i # Feedback: Negative, Positive or Both? http://bit.ly/cPFOwk # How Do You Measure the Effectiveness of Professional Development? First wait for the cycle to complete http://bit.ly/a1saPO # OER at UCT: From Project to Portfolio http://bit.ly/b54hQ3 # The Sci-Fi Guide to Dissertation…
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Posted to Diigo 08/01/2010
xWeb « Connectivism – Annotated Naming things is important. It’s easier to say “web 2.0″ than “participative, fragmented content, conversation-driven web”. Unfortunately, names give shape to concepts that are often imprecise. Sometimes words hurt more than they help. xWeb is the utilization of smart, structured data drawn from our physical and virtual interactions and identities to…
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The role of feedback in medical education
This reflection on the role of feedback in education is based on a mailing list discussion as part of the SAFRI programme, as well as on a few of the assigned readings. I thank the organisers of the session, as well as all the participants in the conversation. Guidelines for effective feedback The assigned readings…
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Reflections on improving teaching practice
Up until today, I was kind of maintaining 2 blogs…this one, and a reflective commentary that I included in my teaching portfolio wiki. The portfolio is something that our faculty suggests we keep for when we apply for promotion, etc. but I thought it could be something more. So when I started teaching in 2007, I…
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4th year research presentations
Just got back from watching 6 groups of 4th year physiology students present the results or their research projects at a competition. There were a few things that struck me: The “examiners” were all clinicians with few research credentials Many of the the students who presented had little understanding of the results they presented, especially…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-28
Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge – 7 Principles http://bit.ly/1J8gpw # Can’t wait for my netbook to arrive so that I can play with Moblin 2.0…http://bit.ly/gqdOV # BMJ Case Reports blog: Finding your doctor through their published case reports http://bit.ly/3qEG9y # Trends and issues in open and distance learning in Africa IRRODL,…
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International collaborative undergraduate student project
I’ve recently been invited to participate in a collaborative undergraduate physiotherapy project, hosted at Physiopaedia, for 2010. It will involve students from several countries and continents, and our students will be the only ones from a developing country, which should make for an interesting comparison of the final products at the end. Following the conclusion…