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Lucy M

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medievalist • MA • interested in: royal legitimation, historical narratives and legends in 13-14th cent. Wales, Scotland, and England • in a constant state of wanderlust • in Melbourne/Naarm • she/her

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · Feb 24

As we head into the new academic year in Australia, I'd like to reshare this document of #neurodivergent study tips that I compiled.

It's based entirely on tips by neurodivergent people, and I have had learning advisors tell me it was very helpful and had good info.

#historysky #academicsky

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Neurodivergent Study Tips.pdf

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 1h

Ooh! I will definitely check that out

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 5h

my approach to things like lectures and readings in undergrad. But I still went through all the motions of traditional learning

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 5h

That’s interesting and also makes sense. I wonder if there’s studies done on how home schooled vs traditionally schooled students approach university.

I was a very good student at high school but because I picked up things quickly, I never learnt to properly ‘study’, and I think that impacted

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe that’s where the being a mature age student vs a teenager fits in haha

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

It’s always so interesting to see how even within the same neurodivergence, there’s still lots of variety.

I never looked at uploaded slides first and rarely looked at them later (even if I hadn’t taken a lot in from the lecture). I do agree it would have helped me but 😅

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

Check slides later/before or rewatch as you said, if they need, but you missing stuff impacts the whole cohort.

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

Very good point there about conflicting accessibility needs! You being able to give all the content you need to give is the priority there - I was thinking more from a student perspective, but your ability to give everyone the whole content would take priority there, because the select students can-

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

it can’t marvel at that students making precarious links that aren’t there does show they took something on, and it can’t wander back to the table later for them to tell you they don’t have a clue what’s going on in this reading and know you won’t get annoyed and will help them figure it out

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

Sure, ai could probably give a more in depth answer to queries of the Mongol expansion, but it can’t laugh when the distracted table comes up with the most precarious link about how their conversation about going for their drivers tests relates to content about medieval expansionism

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

When you’re human and you recognise that students are too then they ask you for help when they’re struggling and they believe you’re after their best interests.

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

they only did half their reading because they ran out of time, they did the whole reading but didn’t understand any of it, they’re asking a question of something you literally just explained) is why I’m a good teacher.

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

*I’m human* and showing my students that I’m human (and I forget things, I misspell key terms of the weeks content, I acknowledge finding things confusing or hard)

and that I *recognise that they’re human* (it’s 3pm and they just want to stare at the wall a minute,-

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

I really love this

and also, I’ve been thinking about what makes me a good teacher, and it’s not that I know the content well (as a TA, I often just learnt it myself!), it’s a lot that I know the skills, but it’s largely that I come into my classrooms with a chaotic but empathetic energy.

Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 8h

“I remember the human parts.

And the human error is the point.”

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

Oh my god, how awful for those students

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 6h

As a historian that focuses on uses of legends: yes

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 7h

And what did everyone do stuck at home during lockdown?
You watched films, played video games, read books.
We relied on the Humanities.

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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 7h

we're surrounded by media all the time.
How many hours do you spend looking at a screen each day?
Why? What is it that draws you in and keeps you there?
Don't you think it might be important for someone to research that stuff?

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 7h

I’m young enough that both of those were things when I was an undergrad

I think there’s a use in ‘here’s a bulk of information in dot point/summarised form for you’, but maybe slides complementing lectures aren’t that place. Slides that are separate to lectures/ hand out of lecture notes could be

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 7h

I really should think about the use of handouts more

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 8h

Which I suppose thinking about it on the other hand, slides that were too text heavy meant I wasn’t entirely listening to what was being said because I was too busy trying to write down sentences of stuff on the slide before it changed (as a student) / reading that content (as a listener now)

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 8h

of text, usually a key primary source quote that I’ll use in that part of the point.

When I look at slides, I don’t necessarily need *information* off them, I just need something to focus on that also keys me into what the main point is

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Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 8h

I agree there! I think there’s a common trap in ‘slides as a summary of the point’ rather than a complement - and that can make slides more work?

Admittedly, I haven’t lectured so can’t speak for slides there, but when I make slides for conferences, they’re usually a pretty visual with a line-

Lucy M @lucyelm.bsky.social · 8h

Was this training session for supervisors???

Brb asking ai to tell me who my third grade teacher was because apparently it’s the font of all knowledge 🙄

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 9h

I was up til 1am drafting newsletters in advance because we've been so crap at consistency these past months so you better sign up! honestly it's really good!

Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 18h

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 10h

So the aim of AI is to take the pleasure out of everything?

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 11h

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17h

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

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