teaching
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Mini Series on the Future of Education: Part 6 - Reflections on Teaching Regenerative Design
8 weeks after my unit on Regenerative Design started, and it is complete. Last Friday the students sat the exam. Later today and tomorrow I intend to start marking the exam scripts, but before I mark, I wanted to have...
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Introducing GEOG: Leading the University of Bath's Response to Generative AI in Education
I have been at the University of Bath for twenty years, and in that time few developments have presented a challenge, and an opportunity, of the scale now posed by Generative AI (GenAI). Unlike previous waves of educational technology, tools...
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Mini Series on the Future of Education: Part 5 - Future walk around Bath - what will Bath be like in 2050
Back in 2022, when I was researching my book on Regenerative Design I started coming across future imaginings of the world that I found really helpful. Whether James McKays drawings, which featured as part of Paul Chatterton’s book “Unlocking Sustainable...
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Mini Series on the Future of Education: Part 4 - Lecturing, really? A case for collective hope
I love lecturing. It’s one of my favourite parts of the job. The joy of standing up in front of a group of people and telling them stories, sharing something of yourself. Being vulnerable. But here is the thing. Over...
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Mini Series on the Future of Education: Part 2 - The unit megaplan - lectures, workshops and a field trip to the library to read books
This week I would like to unpack with you how my unit on regenerative design will work. What my plan is. But to do that first of all I need to explain a little bit of background. Firstly, the unit...
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Mini Series on the Future of Education: Part 1 - Introduction to regenerative design
Hi, my name is James and I joined the University of Bath about 5 months ago. Before that I was at Bristol for ten years where I was a teaching focussed member of staff, and was the equivalent of Director...