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Tim Fawns

@timbocop.bsky.social

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Educationalist. Teaching & researching faculty development & digital education (+ sometimes memory). Monash. Views my own.

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Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · Sep 28

Who doesn’t love authentic assessment. But is it always good? Does it have magical properties? Or does it require careful negotiation of design considerations, purposes and trade-offs?
New open access paper
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Authentic assessment: from panacea to criticality

Authentic assessment is often positioned as an educational panacea, invoked in response to a broad range of complex problems. This paper considers authentic assessment in relation to three key chal...

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Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · 6d

I feel that we inevitably do assess some different things with a for learning lens because feedback gives us a chance to say more things we care about. But I am wondering, philosophically, perhaps, if it is possible to assess some things "for learning" that are impossible to assess "of learning"

Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · 13d

This probably means you are doing it right. Sorry.

The awful truth is you don't actually find the right themes, you just stop at some point and go with the ones you have at that point. And then those might even change as you "write it up". But what you are doing right now, that's the process (IMO)

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Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · 13d

Can you assess things via assessment for learning that you can't assess via assessment of learning?

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Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · 13d

Raspberries cost about $2 per second at my house.

Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · Sep 2

The panellists challenged us to slow down, think relationally, and critically examine the systems shaping education. From risks of homogenisation to the importance of sovereignty and refusal, Tristan and Tamika offered thoughts about how institutions might navigate AI ethically and inclusively.

Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · Sep 2

How can we respect Indigenous Knowledges in responding to the challenges of AI in education?

Watch Prof. Tristan Kennedy DVC Indigenous (Monash), Dr Tamika Worrell (Centre for Critical Indigenous Studies, Macquarie), chaired by Prof. Claire Palermo.

teaching-community.monash.edu/respecting-i...

PAAIR challenge conversation: How can we respect Indigenous Knowledges in responding to the challenges of AI in education? – Monash Teaching Community

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Postdigital Science and Education @pdse.bsky.social · May 29

An old book, for PDSE standards (published in 2021!) yet so timely and relevant today :) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Online Postgraduate Education in a Postdigital World

This series is a new, international book series dedicated to postdigital science and education. It brings together a rapidly growing community

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Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · May 15

To me, all of this points to the need for educators to be trying to figure out this evolving educational context with students. Supportive, careful exploration and critique. I don't think extremes of resistance or adoption will help students where they are at. But that's up for debate!

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Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · May 15

We also have focus group papers in the pipeline, looking at how students are thinking about GenAI, their questions and positions. Complex, diverse, entangled in rich conditions, contexts and beliefs, is what we're seeing. A lot of them are using GenAI even as they are worried about using it.

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Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · May 15

...Students were concerned about GenAI feedback reliability + contextual / disciplinary expertise and valued relational aspect of teacher feedback.

GenAI / teacher feedback serve different functions. It's not either/or.

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Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · May 15

New open access paper from AIinHE project, led by Michael Henderson www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Survey of 7k students from 4 Aus unis. Students valued GenAI feedback ease of access, timeliness, volume, understandability + felt less risky than seeking teacher feedback. But...

Comparing Generative AI and teacher feedback: student perceptions of usefulness and trustworthiness

The rapid integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into educational contexts has presented both opportunities and challenges for students seeking and using feedback. While AI-gener...

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Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · Mar 13

New chapter in "The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media", edited by Qi Wang and @andrewhoskins.bsky.social.

academic.oup.com/book/59599/c...

It critiques simplistic claims about effects of technology on memory. DM if you can't access it.

Photography, Digital Media, and Technology: Moving from Effects on Memory to Entanglements in Remembering Activity

AbstractBroad claims about the relationship between memory and photography, media, and the Internet are often based on thin evidence, derived mainly from a

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Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · Jan 31

2024 was a busy year, I'm pretty sure I've forgotten a bunch of things I did.

It's a good paper, you should be proud.

Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · Jan 31

D'oh, wrong James Lamb! Sorry to both Jameses.

Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · Jan 31

New open access paper on the complexities of hybrid teaching, learning spaces, materiality, choreography and improvisation, all that good stuff! Led by @jameslamb.bsky.social with @jenrossity.bsky.social and @joenote.bsky.social

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Choreography and improvisation in hybrid teaching

Ideas of space within higher education are changing, influenced by pedagogical innovation, emerging technologies, and the experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is most obvious in the expansion...

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Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · Jan 8

So far, I have thought about the following:
- apprenticeship
- lab work
- collaborative projects where educator is part of the group
- supervised practice
- co-authoring with students
- peer-led teaching sessions
- coaching (where coach has to collaborate with student, as in tennis)

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Tim Fawns @timbocop.bsky.social · Jan 8

Hi all. I'm thinking about assessments where the assessor/educator works alongside students and gets a sense of their learning from collaborative involvement.

Do you have examples (real or hypothetical) that you can offer for discussion?

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