Keith Ritchie

PhD student. Researching: Digital focused Third Space Workers in HE. ICT training specialist. FHEA. BCS Member. MHFA Champion. Views my own.

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

Barlow may have declared that old world has no jurisdiction in cyberspace. Dead are all the Gods. We have however, slowly filled the void with the individualistic Lockean liberalism of the world cyberspace tried to leave behind.
https://t.co/mF41A5YMkf #digihuman

[Jisc @Jisc]

That’s a wrap! Thanks to you for making #Digifest24 an event to remember.

Fancy doing it again next year? -> https://t.co/TB9S7akexn

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

Very interesting article on how Gen AI can contribute to social learning. It’s good to see Gen AI treated with positive realism, which is seldom seen. I’d like to see more on the ethics of using LLM like this, with its biases and hallucinations, particularly in HE.

[Mike Sharples @sharplm]

My open access journal paper on social generative AI for education now published. What are implications for education when AI becomes embedded in social networks? Experts in #edtech need to work with AI companies to train systems that care for learners. https://t.co/h2WRrBELfj

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@digisim I suspect a lot of the hype is driven by the AI companies themselves. Publicity=profit. I’m not sure if Texas Instruments and Casio pushed calculators in the same way, I’m too young to remember. I know we were taught they were the future and they would change the world.

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@digisim Yes. Calculators didn’t end maths classes, or make mathematicians unemployed. Arguably they’ve improved their efficiency and accuracy. You have to use them critically, GIGO. AI hasn’t quite got to the GIGO stage yet, it’s mostly GO. When it does, AI will just be another tool.

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@beckybowd Study on the London Underground from 2020. https://t.co/6ZVerUEPQb

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@NiciPedley @afPE_PE @Pogg34 Congratulations 👏

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@DrRLofthouse Someone mentioned Cherubini.

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@digisim I’ve seen a few from him but also a load more from people who have renamed themselves Elon Musk. We live in strange times.

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@KaySocLearn They’re great with an Irn Bru chaser 👍😂

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@KaySocLearn The log is to a wafer what a snowball is to a tea cake basically. I think there’s a bit more of a difference than just rolling the wafer in coconut but that’s probably the easiest way to picture it.

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@KaySocLearn @damien_page I’ve thought about doing one on Marx and Strictly Come Dancing. Then I thought about the ages of the students and thought Marx and Love Island would be better. It was at that point I realised I’d actually have to watch Love Island to do the idea justice. Out the window it went.

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@KaySocLearn @StirUni Congratulations!

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

For me this thread and the products of it, epitomise the creative and community elements of digital literacies.

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@KaySocLearn I heard something like this on Radio 4 earlier this week. Someone had plugged into an ancient woodland. All the trees communicate with each other. So do the bushes. It’s all done through fungus connecting the roots. Long story short, they made a piece of music from it all.

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@ChrisHeadleand @NotAMarvelHero @Stu3DArt Fallout 3 - it's a highly immersive game with a large number of outcomes. I particularly like how it fuses RPG and FPS. I also really like the way Karma due to your gameplay affects your interactions with NPCs and the quests you can undertake. A modern classic.

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

Could ‘The Flip’ be reversed by learning the lessons of the early days of the internet? A true community of active citizens. More Rousseau than Locke. This is what my own research is leading me to wonder and I’m pleased these are the general conclusions of this show too.

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

Barlow may have declared that old world has no jurisdiction in cyberspace. Dead are all the Gods. We have however, slowly filled the void with the individualistic Lockean liberalism of the world cyberspace tried to leave behind.
https://t.co/mF41A5YMkf #digihuman

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@lisa_stephenso @DrRLofthouse Congratulations!

[Keith Ritchie @KRitchie5247]

@digisim @PickfordRuth @ProfSallyBrown Congratulations!