Angelika Thielsch

@athielsch.bsky.social

Educational Developer and HigherEd Researcher working at the University of Göttingen. I am also at the board of the dghd (German Association of Academic Development) & editor of the OA journal ‚die hochschullehre‘. Göttingen | Germany | she/her

🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In which I join an all-star group of scholars to discuss the problems with what we call "critical optimism" about AI in education and offer instead three forms of AI refusal: curricular, bureaucratic, and administrative. The article is paywalled, so DM me for a copy.

Refusing Educational Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Inequity, and the Problem of Critical Optimism - Niral Shah, David Stroupe, Aman Yadav, Tess Bernhard, Charles Logan, Elizabeth B. Dyer, Peng ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)—like many technologies before—comes with hope and worry about its implications for education. In this essay, using generative AI as...

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A helpful review from Keara Quadros, Marcia McKenzie, and Kalervo Gulson. Also, because “the environmental impacts of the development and use of AI in education are an area that will require further research,” who wants to collaborate?

AI and its impacts on the planet: a scoping review and implications for education

This paper reports the findings of a scoping review on the environmental harms of AI. We reviewed 198 publications to consider the specific environmental harms explored in the literature, the life ...

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Als Vorstand der #dghd — der Deutschen Gesellschaft für #Hochschuldidaktik — haben wir uns zur Bedeutung der #Freiheit von Wissenschaft und Lehre geäußert und damit unsere Kritik zu aktuellen politischen Entwicklungen im Bildungsbereich zum Ausdruck gebracht. #Dare2Care www.dghd.de/blog/freihei...

Freiheit von Wissenschaft und Lehre muss gestärkt werden - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hochschuldidaktik (dghd)

Stellungnahme der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hochschuldidaktik (dghd) zur Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre, 13.05.2025

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How can AI support rather than replace student writing and thinking? How can we encourage confidence and skepticism of AI outputs? Our approach, developed at UC Davis, combines peer review with AI feedback, emphasizing reflection and agency. 1/3

 A step-by-step visual representation of the PEER AND AI REVIEW + REFLECTION (PAIRR) process. The graphic consists of five staggered steps, each in a hexagonal shape with a number and description: 	1.	Draft – Students create a rough draft. 	2.	Peer Feedback – Students provide and receive peer feedback. 	3.	AI Feedback – Students enter their prompt, draft, and the assignment rubric into an AI tool. 	4.	Reflect – Students complete a comparative reflection on AI and peer feedback. 	5.	Revise – Students revise.

I have a new paper out with Dr Lucy Newby in Teaching in Higher Education (open access!) It’s an historical and conceptual critique of the theory of Constructive Alignment, which is the hegemonic pedagogical framework in European higher education today. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A neutral toolkit? For a fundamental critique of constructive alignment

This paper develops a systematic critique of the theory of constructive alignment (CA). It argues that CA is less a simple toolkit than a comprehensive philosophy of teaching and learning. Articula...

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I told my son today that yes, watching the news these days is frightening and frustrating. But the least we can do is not turn away. We have to witness, be aware of what's happening and talk about it. I truly believe that each of us can make a difference!

Self-assessment is increasingly digital, but has digital self-assessment design kept pace with the digital world? In our new paper with Zi Yan and David Boud, we explore how self-assessment could be more relevant for students' increasingly digital futures ⚡💽 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Self-assessment design in a digital world: centring student agency

Digital technologies allow student self-assessment to be adaptive, scalable and multimodal. Despite such technological advances, digital self-assessment practices have largely reinforced the existi...

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