Teaching and Learning Centre Blog

As AI tools become part of everyday academic practice, from ChatGPT and Grammarly to NotebookLM and beyond, our students increasingly turn to them for speed, structure and inspiration. We cannot control this. Instead, our shared task is to encourage responsible, reflective and academically grounded use of these tools. …

Using reflective moments to share, evidence, and enhance our practice In a previous Teaching and Learning seminar, we explored reflection on action. This is the process of examining our teaching after the event to learn, refine, and grow. This week, we started to look at ways in which we can make the idea explicit and shareable. Our focus was on how we, as an academic team, can evidence and share our practice, where we shared the process of what we do, learn from each other, and think critically about how to make it better. In our session, we examined how reflection becomes meaningful when it’s linked to evidence of practice student work, feedback, classroom observations, and specifically examples of active learning in action. Our focus was about moving from “What did I teach?” to “How do I know my students learned?”. The seminar put forward the notion that once we …